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What’s happened in AI: April 15th-22nd

By | April 24, 2018
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This week’s news features interesting developments with regards to fundraising. Sinovation Ventures landed Spanish bank BBVA as a new LP, and BenevolentAI raised over $100mm to continue its development of AI for drug discovery. Company developments: Jack Ma says Alibaba ‘doing a lot of research’ on driverless cars – Apr. 19, 2018 (Phys.org) “What we… Read More »

What’s happened in AI: March 16th-23rd

By | March 24, 2018
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Arguably the biggest week in AI this year in terms of new developments. Not all developments are positive and rosy though. This week we witnessed the tragic and unfortunate death of Elaine Herzberg, who was struck by one of Uber’s autonomous vehicles in Arizona. While I’m a strong proponent of autonomous vehicles, especially given the… Read More »