AI helps protect Australian wildlife in fire-affected areas

Favorite Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Darren Grover, Head of Healthy Land and Seascapes at the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia. Over the next six months, more than 600 sensor cameras will be deployed in bushfire-affected areas across Australia, monitoring and evaluating the surviving wildlife populations. This

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 15, 2020

Researchers can use qsim to explore quantum algorithms

Favorite A year ago, Google’s Quantum AI team achieved a beyond-classical computation by using a quantum computer to outperform the world’s fastest classical computer. With this, we entered a new era of quantum computing. We still have a long journey ahead of us to find practical applications, and we know

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 7, 2020

When newsrooms collaborate with AI

Favorite Two years ago, the Google News Initiative partnered with the London School of Economics and Political Science to launch JournalismAI, a global effort to foster media literacy in newsrooms through research, training and experimentation.   Since then, more than 62 thousand journalists have taken Introduction to Machine Learning, an online

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 7, 2020

Can AI make me trendier?

Favorite As a software engineer and generally analytic type, I like to craft theories for everything. Theories on how to build software, how to stay productive, how to be creative…and even how to dress well. For help with that last one, I decided to hire a personal stylist. As it

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 3, 2020

Find your inner poet with help from America's greats

Favorite Behold! the living thrilling lines That course the blood like madd’ning wines, And leap with scintillating spray Across the guards of ecstasy. The flame that lights the lurid spell Springs from the soul’s artesian well, Its fairy filament of art Entwines the fragments of a heart. Poetry by Georgia

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Shared by Google AI Technology November 23, 2020

Music from the heart, with an AI assist

Favorite The next time you hear a popular song on the radio, listen to the beat behind the lyrics. Usually, a high-powered production team came up with it—but in the future, that beat could be created with help from artificial intelligence. That’s what Googler MJ Jacob predicts, as he combines

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Shared by Google AI Technology November 20, 2020

Introducing Google News Initiative Conversations

Favorite This year, the way many of us work has changed dramatically. We’ve gone from lunch meetings and large networking conferences to meeting virtually from our makeshift home offices. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly upended a lot of this, but that doesn’t mean sharing ideas is on hold, too. That’s

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Shared by Google AI Technology November 18, 2020

Rachel Malarich is planting a better future, tree by tree

Favorite Everyone has a tree story, Rachel Malarich says—and one of hers takes place on the limbs of a eucalyptus tree. Rachel and her cousins spent summers in central California climbing the 100-foot tall trees and hanging out between the waxy blue leaves—an experience she remembers as awe-inspiring.  Now, as

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Shared by Google AI Technology November 18, 2020

5 ways to celebrate TensorFlow's 5th birthday

Favorite Five years ago, we open-sourced TensorFlow, our machine learning framework for research and production. Our goal was to expand access to state-of-the-art machine learning tools so anyone could use them. Since then, TensorFlow has become the most popular machine learning library in the world, with over 160 million downloads.

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Shared by Google AI Technology November 13, 2020