【What's Up, AI? A Week of Tech Announcements】
This week in AI, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook all had some sort of announcement or press surrounding their AI activities. For all you founders interested in the world of AI, let's take a closer look together at them and what they've been up to recently.
Google: 4 new machine learning APIs for developers were released by Google earlier this week. The new APIs are (1) object detection, (2) tracking, (3) on-device translation, and (4) AutoML Vision Edge. This will help developers with more base APIs, UX, and greater customization. This release is on par with Google's vision for open source: bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
Facebook: On the topic of open source, Facebook continues with its commitment to the wider developer community (and specifically the AI community) by announcing Pythia, a modular plug-and-play framework that allows data scientists to quickly build, reproduce, and benchmark AI models. Also available on Github.
Microsoft: In an annual machine-translation competition (WMT19), Microsoft Research Asia came out top 8 of 19 different language-translation challenges, beating out other tech firms like Yandex and IBM. This is significant for them because they developed a speech-recognition system which transcribes as well as a human, so winning the competition solidifies their credibility in the space. Congrats Microsoft!
As we continue to see AI creation and adoption grow, we can only expect to hear about AI on the daily. In the meantime before AI becomes mainstream, check out this video from Code Bullet where he makes an AI that learns to walk while avoiding a death laser. Have a great weekend!
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- Natalie Feng Lin, Analyst
