Artificial Intelligence

Amper is a musical Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology designed principally to collaborate with humans on royalty-free mood music for adverts. However, following a collaboration with songwriter Taryn Southern, it is now in the process of recording her first album – I AM AI. The album is set to hit the shelves by the end of this year, and while the lyrics and vocals are Southern’s, the chord progressions, notation and instrume...

An AI-based matching technology that uses game theory to automatically calculate an optimal matching of children to nurseries has been developed by Fujitsu, Fujitsu Laboratories, and the Fujitsu Social Mathematics Division of the Institute of Mathematics for Industry at Kyushu University. Using this technology, a complicated nursery admissions screening that had previously required several days by hand took only seconds.

  Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence – can accurately analyse the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.

By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails. "At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip," said Paul Johnson, a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and lead investigator on the research, which was published in Geophysica...

Global telecommunication and IoT solution provider, Sicap, is launching the artificial intelligence enabler, Sicap AI Engine, which when combined with TargetMe, Sicap’s customer engagement automation solution, helps mobile operators to predict and reduce customer churn. Customer churn is a major global economic issue in the telecom industry and operators must address it. If not properly managed, churn leads to significant loss of reven...

GPS navigation app, Sygic, has announced its new augmented reality (AR) feature. More than 200 million Sygic users worldwide can engage with AR for an improved navigation experience on the road. Sygic’s new AR feature uses a smartphone’s GPS and camera to implement an augmented reality-powered GPS navigation system. With the AR feature, the driver no longer needs to follow a map on their phone. Instead, they’re guided by a virtu...

  In this eBook, Mouser puts autonomous vehicles smack-dab in the middle of connected infrastructure and emphasises the Internet of Moving Things - where IoT meets mobility - because this intersection poses some of the most demanding and interesting design challenges.

You don’t have to attach sensors to everything. With machine learning, a new suite of only nine different sensors can recognise dozens of various phenomena. Ubiquitous sensors seem almost synonymous with the Internet of Things (IoT), but some Carnegie Mellon University researchers say ubiquitous sensing - with a single, general purpose sensor for each room - may be better. Author: Hermann Straubinger

It is getting increasingly difficult - and expensive - to find available parking spot in big cities. The Real Time Parking Service feature in Sygic's Car Navigation both navigates drivers and saves them money. The online booking option means it's easy to reach the space closest to your final destination. In London, Paris or Amsterdam, average parking prices are even higher. These European capitals, according to a global study by Pa...

Across mid-top end trims, in-vehicle infotainment systems are becoming a standard feature. It is still considered as a luxury feature in some markets but as a necessity in others. The infotainment system offers luxury, convenience, and a host of other features that connect the car to the cloud and other connected services. The infotainment system is a combination of components such as control panel, telematics device, and head up displays bu...