Artificial Intelligence

The annual 'IBM 5 in 5' has been unveiled by IBM – a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years. In 1609, Galileo invented the telescope and saw our cosmos in an entirely new way. He proved the theory that Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun, which until then was impossible to observe. 

The proliferation of cameras in automobiles to support Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles is driving the need for ever-smaller, low-cost cameras, as Dave Lewis, Technical Marketing Manager for FPD-Link ADAS SerDes, Texas Instruments, writes.

Renesas Electronics has announced its first RH850-based, 32-bit, automotive radar microcontroller (MCU) series. The RH850/V1R will deliver the high performance and features required for enabling future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving vehicles. 

Extending its leadership in the automotive market, Texas Instruments (TI) has announced more than 150 million of its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and digital cockpit Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) are on the road today, in more than 35 OEMs. Leveraging 35 years of automotive experience and billions of analogue and embedded processing solutions shipped to automotive manufacturers worldwide, TI created both the TDA and “Jacinto” fa...

SIGMA FUSION, Leti’s low-cost solution for autonomous cars, transforms the myriad of incoming distance data into clear information about the driving environment. This efficient perception system, which Leti will demonstrate at CES 2017, combines, merges and feeds exhaustive data to an autonomous car's autopilot, providing all it needs to guarantee safe driving.

The neural structure we use to store and process information in verbal working memory is more complex than previously understood, finds a study by researchers at New York University. It shows that processing information in working memory involves two different networks in the brain rather than one—a discovery that has implications for the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as speech translation tools.

  Imagine a world without cashiers, tills and mainly, queues. Well this world could become a reality with the new Amazon Go store. The online retailer has devised a store with no checkout required. 

Texas Instruments is extending its Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle System-on-Chip (SoC) portfolio, with the availability of a development board and a rapidly growing ecosystem. RT-RK, an embedded services and product development company globally recognised for their digital signal processing software development, along with TI are announcing the availability of the RT-RK Alpha development board.

Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files and their transcriptions, and learns which acoustic features correspond to which typed words. But transcribing recordings is costly, time-consuming work, which has limited speech recognition to a small subset of languages spoken in wealthy nations...

The Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has up to £100,000 available to fund research into how automation and machine intelligence can analyse data to enhance decision making in the defence and security sectors. Dstl is continuing to invest in novel procurement routes and is collaborating with the Digital Catapult Centre to run a one and a half day workshop. The aim is to stimulate debate, generate ideas and to forge links wi...