The World of Darkness — the gaming universe created by White Wolf publishing for the cult-favorite tabletop RPG series Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and many others — might be stepping out into the light of TV and movies…
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The AI arms race comes to enterprise content management
Enterprise content management (ECM) platforms that have historically been employed to manage files are, thanks to the rise of AI, about to evolve into central repositories for keeping track of relationships between a much wider range of types of data….
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Ring rolls out end-to-end video encryption after a class action lawsuit
In September, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it would bring end-to-end video encryption to its lineup of home security devices. While the company already encrypted videos in storage and during transmission, end-to-end encryption secures videos on-device, preventing third parties without special…
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What this bald eagle and neural network depiction have to do with future U.S. AI strategy
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) today announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, an organization that will coordinate and oversee national AI policy initiatives for the United States government. “The Office is…
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U.S. NHTSA opens AV TEST autonomous vehicle tracking program to ‘all stakeholders’
In June, the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) division of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) revealed the Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST), a program that provides an online, public-facing forum for sharing automated…
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Mobileye announces autonomous vehicle pilot programs in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Paris
At the all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Intel subsidiary Mobileye announced four new locations where it plans to test its autonomous vehicle technologies. In a briefing with reporters, Mobileye cofounder Amnon Shashua revealed that Mobileye’s vehicles began driving autonomously…
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Stanford researchers propose AI that figures out how to use real-world objects
One longstanding goal of AI research is to allow robots to meaningfully interact with real-world environments. In a recent paper, researchers at Stanford and Facebook took a step toward this by extracting information related to actions like pushing or pulling…
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Brad Venable, Prominent Video Game And Anime Voice Actor, Passes Away
Brad Venable, a prominent voice actor who played Griffon/Nightmare in Devil May Cry 5, has passed away at age 43. According to IGN, no cause of death has been given at the time of publishing. Venable’s lengthy voice acting credits included…
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Researchers design AI that can infer whole floor plans from short video clips
Floor plans are useful for visualizing spaces, planning routes, and communicating architectural designs. A robot entering a new building, for instance, can use a floor plan to quickly sense the overall layout. Creating floor plans typically requires a full walkthrough…
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Glia raises $78 million to digitize customer service interactions
Customer service startup Glia today announced it raised $78 million. The funds will be used to expand departments across its organization, the company says, with a focus on product development and strategic acquisitions. Multimodality is fast becoming the norm in…
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested technology that can recognize masked faces
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing facial recognition technology that would allow it to identify people wearing masks with what it says is high accuracy. That’s according to a press release published this week, which reveals that…
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AI Weekly: The argument in favor of regulation in 2021
2020 was an eventful year, not least of which because of a pandemic that shows little sign of abating. The AI research community experienced its own tribulations, capped off by Google’s firing of ethicist Timnit Gebru and a spat over…
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