The Chinese internet giant Baidu has unveiled its second generation artificial intelligence chip, its first “Robocar” and a renamed driverless taxi app, underscoring the importance of these new areas of technology for the company's future growth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/baidu-launches-robocar-and-ai-chip-in-bid-to-diversify-business.html
One of the many worrying developments in the tragedy in Afghanistan is that the Taliban seized US facial recognition and fingerprinting devices and databases.
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/18/us-face-recognition-taliban/
Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), the engineering and technology development arm of the Fortune 100 software industry leader, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, have reached an agreement to establish an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory and joint research AI and related new technologies.
https://www.crn.in/news/honeywell-sets-up-artificial-intelligence-research-centre-at-iit-hyderabad/
Earlier this week, Amazon announced the winners of its annual Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge, which encourages exploration of coherence, context awareness, responsiveness, and other areas fundamental to the future of conversational AI.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/19/amazon-taps-its-socialbot-challenge-to-boost-conversational-ai/
If you want to see yourself on screen with Hugh Jackman, this is your chance.
https://www.engadget.com/warner-bros-reminiscence-promo-deepfake-trailer-052114554.html?guccounter=1
