Artificial Intelligence

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...

A high performance processor for autonomous vehicles called Aldebaran has been developed by the researchers from Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). Increased focus by the automotive and IT industries on enhancing autonomous vehicle technology has increased the market for core processors customised for autonomous vehicles.

  Steve Rogerson found that this year’s electronica saw IoT hype give way to reality.

  In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognising speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos posted to Facebook. But recognition of natural sounds — such as crowds cheering or waves crashing — has lagged behind.

  As 2016 draws to a close, embedded systems consultancy ByteSnap Design share their predictions for what may dominate the electronics industry in 2017.

Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare, announced during the LA Auto Show at the LA Convention Center that the injection of Circuit Seed’s, Sensory Seed multipurpose sensor systems integrated on a single chip combined into current automotive sensor applications can improve critical speed and accuracy to provide the world’s best automotive collision, detection and avoidance technologies for driver-assist and autonomous vehicles.