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AI Can Detect Mental Illness Through Speech-based Mobile App
Nov 16, 2019
Read MoreThe advances in AI has enabled computers to assist doctors in detecting diseases and help keep a check on patient health remotely. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) are working to leverage ML to psychiatry using a speech-based mobile app. This app can categorize patients’ mental status better than humans.
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Lawmakers Propose Bill Limiting Government's Use of Facial Recognition
Nov 15, 2019
Read MoreA bipartisan pair of lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would force law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before using facial recognition software to track American citizens.
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What Exactly Is Machine Intelligence?
Nov 15, 2019
Read MoreMachine intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine learning are not different terms for the same thing. They’re related but distinct from each other.
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The Buck Starts Here: How AI Shapes The Future Of Money
Nov 13, 2019
Read MoreFor a long time, financial institutions had a buttoned-down reputation when it came to innovative thinking. Nowadays, even the most conventional and risk-averse parts of the economy are looking at Artificial Intelligence, not long ago considered an experimental, bleeding edge technology.
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AI helps bring voices to the voiceless
Nov 12, 2019
Read MoreAt the Voice Preservation Clinic in Boston, researchers are now using AI technology to reconstruct the voices of patients at risk of losing the ability to speak.
According to a new report from the Guardian, the project is a collaboration between Northeastern University in Boston and VocaliD, a digital voice company. While a patient is still able to speak, they make a series of recordings that assist the researchers as they build the digital voice.
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AI ethics is all about power
Nov 11, 2019
Read MoreAt the Common Good in the Digital Age tech conference recently held in Vatican City, Pope Francis urged Facebook executives, venture capitalists, and government regulators to be wary of the impact of AI and other technologies. “If mankind’s so-called technological progress were to become an enemy of the common good, this would lead to an unfortunate regression to a form of barbarism dictated by the law of the strongest,” he said.
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A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard
Nov 11, 2019
Read MoreResearchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.
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Where VCs are looking for voice startup investments
Nov 4, 2019
Read MoreLed by Amazon’s Alexa, smart speakers’ install base is expected to reach 200 million units worldwide by 2020. A quarter of Americans over the age of 12 own a smart speaker, and the majority of those users have more than one device in their home. Moreover, Apple could sell 50 million of its Airpods this year (generating $8 billion in sales) as Bluetooth earpieces explode in popularity.
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The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite
Nov 4, 2019
Read MoreIt’s Microsoft Ignite this week, the company’s premier event for IT professionals and decision-makers. But it’s not just about new tools for role-based access. Ignite is also very much a forward-looking conference that keeps the changing role of IT in mind.
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Forrester: Edge computing is about to bloom
Nov 4, 2019
Read MoreThe next calendar year will be the one that propels edge computing into the enterprise technology limelight for good, according to a set of predictions from Forrester Research.
Insights
The content and distribution of Azafran’s INSIGHTS newsletter is focused to our LP, incubator, research, investment and partner ecosystem. As we look to build a two-way dialogue benefitting our collective efforts, each month we highlight important news and our approach to the emerging intersection of deep technology, end to end solutions and platforms driven by voice, acoustics/sensory and imagery.
The content and distribution of Azafran’s INSIGHTS newsletter is focused to our LP, incubator, research, investment and partner ecosystem. Below are highlights from the last two issues, please sign up to receive access to past and new issues as they are published.
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Issue 20 - As the COVID-19 pandemic increases the need for touchless environments, from frontline workers to everyday commerce, robotics takes center stage.
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COVID-19 and the Golden Age of Robotics
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Issue 20 - Azafran Portfolio Case Study: Emoshape
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Emoshape emotion synthesis chip (EPU) technology represents a massive leap for AI
