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What’s happened in AI: February 18th-28th

By | March 1, 2018

Industry breakthroughs Artificial Intelligence More Accurate Than Lawyers for Reviewing Contracts, New Study Reveals – Feb. 26th, 2018 (PR Newswire) In a new study, LawGeex, the leading AI contract review platform, has achieved an average 94% accuracy rate at surfacing risks in Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), one of the most common legal agreements used in business.… Read More »

What’s happened in AI: December 16th-31st

By | January 1, 2018

Well it looks like 2017 is a wrap. What a great year for AI, so much promise for the sector heading into 2018. Highlights from the year end include Carnegie Mellon’s AI beating the leading Texas Hold’em poker pros, VTT Technical Research Centre’s autonomous snow vehicles and researchers fooling Google’s image recognition AI. University news… Read More »

What’s happened in AI: November 2017

By | December 5, 2017

Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia Saudi Arabia granted Sophia citizenship, making it the first country to grant a robot the right to citizenship, at least as far as we know Sophia’s capabilities were on display during the Future Investment Initiative summit being OpenAI Director Shivon Zilis explains why AI requires oversight… Read More »

What’s happened in AI: October 17th-24th

By | October 25, 2017

Highlights this week include two major developments from Google, the emergence of Primer from stealth mode and the acquisition of nuTonomy by Delphi for $450mm. On the cultural side of AI, we’ve received news regarding plans for a Black AI workshop in December and another AI chatbot expressing offensive remarks. Personally, these are two examples… Read More »

What’s happened in AI: October 9th-16th

By | October 17, 2017

Lots of great activity this week. Notable developments include Alibaba’s reveal of its massive research arm, the UAE’s Centennial 2070 objectives and Marvelstone Group’s plans for the largest AI hub in the world to be built in Singapore. Company highlights/other Facebook launches two datasets to improve AI video analysis The Scenes, Objects, and Actions dataset… Read More »