Moveworks has been bringing natural-language bots to help desk applications, and it just got a giant new round of funding to commercialize large-scale NLP processing models such as Google's BERT.
Facebook AI research's latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks with 100 different languages including Swahili and Urdu, but it's also running up against the limits of existing computing power.
Machines don't understand much of anything, especially not things such as ironic speech, but machine learning may be able to assist humanity in some way by counting the instances of linguistic and semantic constructions that indicate satire or misleading news, according to a new study by tech startup AdVerifai, in partnership with George Washington University and Amazon’s AWS.
With the help of my lovely friend Natalia, I did a photo shoot comparing Apple's iPhone 11 Pro Max to a plain-old digital camera. The iPhone 11 is an amazing achievement, and also full of fakery. Some people may love the result, some people may not.
Honeywell is bringing its "trapped ion" quantum computing hardware to Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service, part of an evolution from the age of quantum "co-processors" to an ultimate era of quantum supremacy.
Fifty years after sending the first internet message, scientist Leonard Kleinrock has gone back to the drawing board with a plan for how to save the internet from fake news and abusive social networks and everything else that ails it. Kleinrock spoke with ZDNet in an exclusive interview about his plans for a new blockchain based on personal reputation.
Google claimed in Nature magazine it has achieved “quantum supremacy” over classical computers with its Sycamore chip. IBM contested the scope of Google’s achievement. Both are right, but you have to give the edge to Google.
Drones are currently heavily regulated to be far from populated areas. The "Mavic Mini," a drone weighing under 250 grams, from drone king DJI, gives a little window into a future in which the devices might be allowed to fly more freely in populated areas.
At its user conference in Florida, IBM offered to demystify the term AI. The effort seemed only mildly successful, but the company nevertheless conveyed a lot of energy and drive behind its various offerings that pertain to machine learning and that may be enough to excite its customers.
The field of AIOps is mostly hype at this point, says IBM’s head of artificial intelligence products; Big Blue is working on an alternative to automate CIO chores.