UK developers says technology enables hand to respond automatically to certain objects.

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In Russia, There’s an AI Helper That Makes Fun of You—and It’s Wildly Popular The unfailingly polite tone of personal assistants like Siri and Alexa isn’t to everyone’s taste. Many in Russia, in fact, seem to prefer their AI helpers with sass and a dark sense of humor.

A new wave of mobile AR and VR apps is here, and these are the ones you need to check out.

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What happens when you create an open AI marketplace that can learn from itself?

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The company turned to a behavior-based security system that knows users by what they use and how they use it.

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The doc.ai app will use natural language processing to literally converse with patients via an app and explain their lab results to them.

Source: Scanadu cofounders’ new project, doc.ai, is a conversational robot that explains lab results | Healthcare IT News

The Abstract: We describe a new learning procedure, back-propagation, for networks of neurone-like units. The procedure repeatedly adjusts the weights of the connections in the network so as to minimize a measure of the difference between the actual output vector of the net and the desired output vector. As a result of the weight adjustments, internal ‘hidden’ units which are not part of the input or output come to represent important features of the task domain, and the regularities in the task are captured by the interactions of these units. The ability to create useful new features distinguishes back-propagation from earlier, simpler methods such as the perceptron-convergence procedure¹

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v323/n6088/pdf/323533a0.pdf

Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4​ ​feet vertically. ​It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic actuators, with a range of about 15 miles on one battery charge.