AI News: January 2020
A broad collection of artificial intelligence news and associated tech items from across South and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, as reported online in the English-language press across January 2020.
- Google Health and DeepMind AI system for early breast cancer detection takes step forward in usefulness to doctors, tho not yet ready to replace human assessment
- A look at to how bots are being implemented by companies to monitor and flag harassment in communications
- ICYMI: Warner Bros partners Cinelytic for AI-powered system to predict likelihood of a film’s success based on actors, budget, brand and more
- Uber has been quietly assembling one of the most impressive open source deep learning stacks in the market – here’s an overview of some of the AI-driven projects
- An overview of Clearview AI, facial recognition firm working with more than 600 law enforcement agencies without public scrutiny using social media-scraped images
- Facebook has trained an AI to navigate without needing a map, creating an algorithm that lets robots find the shortest route in unfamiliar environments
- ICYMI: Finland last year launched a free online crash course in AI to educate its citizens about the technology – that course is now open to anyone, anywhere.
- Download: Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2019 – unbiased, vetted data for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the public (pdf)
- China: Baidu search engine giant overtakes Google and Microsoft in AI competition around machine understanding of human language
- In brief: 10 examples of AI in banking, covering lending, customer service, fraud detection and more
- India: Instoried AI-driven content tech startup secures funding with regional languages focus
- India: Konfinity gains funding in round led by AngelList with AI-based platform aiming to train students to become software developers inside 6 months
- We’re fighting fake news AI bots by using more AI. That’s a mistake.
- New Zealand: Soul Machines raises $40M for AI-powered customer-facing digital avatars
- New Zealand: Air New Zealand and Auckland Airport working with global tech firm Assaia to apply computer vision AI to improve the airline’s performance
- eBay releases Krylov AI platform, adding new layers of functionality
- Taiwan: BeVi startup unveils CarePLUS, AI-based ‘environment recognition’ and services platform focusing on aged care
- Taiwan: Mindtronic AI’s DMX driver’s cockpit tech transfers vehicle control if the system senses that the human driver is sick, tired or distracted
- Artificial intelligence poses new challenges for cybersecurity with rise of AI-guided malware
- Apple pays $200M to acquire Xnor AI firm, developer of low-power edge-based AI tech allowing devices to process without tapping cloud services
- China: A look at HeartDub, creating virtual fabric samples for clothing manufacturers based on textile data, mimicking properties of the real item
- Hong Kong: MioTech fintech startup continues growth, with AI-driven service to evaluate ESG investments for fund managers
- Taiwan: A brief look at Yunyun Tech’s Cubo, world-first AI-enabled baby monitor that can detect the baby’s mouth and nose to avoid suffocation
- China: Shenzhen court rules that AI-generated articles are entitled to copyright protection, ruling in favour of item written by Tencent’s Dreamwriter AI system
- South Korea: Lunit medtech startup gains $26M with AI solutions for precision diagnostics and therapeutics, focusing on cancer
- South Korea: An intro to 20 Korean tech startups exhibiting at CES 2020
