Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Google today announced the release of Model Search, an open source platform designed to help researchers develop machine learning models …
Read More »Google’s MinDiff aims to mitigate unfair biases in classifiers
Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence A guide for both CoEs and business units Download Guide Google today released MinDiff, a new framework for mitigating (but not eliminating) unfair biases when training AI and machine learning models. The company says that MinDiff — the culmination of years …
Read More »Google’s critics and rivals call for swift EU antitrust action
Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook (Reuters) — A group of 165 companies and industry bodies have called on EU antitrust enforcers to take a tougher line against Google, saying the U.S. tech giant unfairly favors its own services …
Read More »Google’s AI lets users search language-agnostic knowledge bases in their native tongue
Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook Entity linking fulfills a key role in grounded language understanding. Given a text mention of an entity (e.g., the word “helpful”), an algorithm identifies the entity’s corresponding entry in a knowledge base (such …
Read More »Apple’s watchOS 7 may beat Google’s latest Wear OS, but both need help
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Smartwatches have become a huge business over the past several years, evolving past the “why do people need these” phase into trusted health monitors and secondary communication devices for millions of people. Apple currently dominates the global market with watchOS-powered …
Read More »Google’s Duplex is calling businesses to check the availability of ‘critical products’ like toilet paper
Google has begun using Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, to contact businesses about the status of certain “in-demand” items like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and cleaning solutions. As reflected in an update to a support webpage and confirmed to VentureBeat by a spokesperson …
Read More »Google’s big download for game developers: 116 billion downloads, new Play services, and Stadia updates
Google gave a download on its tools for game developers in an online event today, and it was full of news for Google Play, cloud infrastructure, and Stadia cloud gaming services for developers. Emil Protalinski and I covered the basics of the developer news and a deal with Unity, but …
Read More »Google’s Objectron uses AI to track 3D objects in 2D video
Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline — Objectron — that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-driving vehicles, image retrieval, and augmented reality — …
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