By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor The European Union on Wednesday released proposed regulations governing the use of AI, a first-of-a-kind proposed legal framework called the Artificial Intelligence Act, outlining…
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Microsoft Acquisition of Nuance is a Big Deal in Voice Recognition
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Microsoft last week announced the acquisition of Nuance, supplier of voice recognition software, for the equivalent of $19.7 billion, making it the second-largest acquisition in Microsoft’s…
Your Doctor’s Assistant is AI
By AI Trends Staff AI is being increasingly incorporated by doctors to transcribe, read, analyze, and make predictions based on notes and conversations between physicians and their patients. This opens up new possibilities…
Scientists Working on Continual Learning to Overcome ‘Catastrophic Forgetting’
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Algorithms are trained on a dataset and may not be capable of learning new information without retraining, as opposed to the human brain, which learns…
Reports of Death of Moore’s Law Are Greatly Exaggerated as AI Expands
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Moore’s Law is far from dead and in fact, we are entering a new era of innovation, thanks to a combination of newly-developed specialized…
QScout Quantum Computer from Sandia Labs Open for Research Business
By AI Trends Staff An open access quantum computing testbed from Sandia National Laboratories, called QScout, is now open to the public for research. Funded by a Department of Energy grant, the quantum…
Ethics Leadership Continues to Churn at Google; Bengio Out, Dr. Croak is In
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor Ethicists continue to churn at Google with the departure of Samy Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist known for cofounding Google Brain, who had been leading a large group of researchers…
Dealing With Stubbornness Of AI Autonomous Vehicles
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider You likely know the catchphrase “stubborn as a mule.” We all know people that are altogether inarguably stubborn and exercise mule-like behavior. Turns out, we often…
Autonomous Vehicle Safety Standards Evolving in US and Worldwide
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor The state of autonomous vehicle safety standard regulation in the US today is between two presidential administrations, with the Trump Administration-era regulations issued Jan….
Meteorologists Aim to Use AI To Get an Edge on Natural Hazards and Disasters
By AI Trends Staff Meteorologists are aiming to use AI to help them get an edge in early detection and disaster relief in response to natural hazards and disasters, which according…