Artificial Intelligence news gathered across August 2020
The AI news collection here is drawn from online coverage of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their applications, reported online in the month of August 2020.
The artificial intelligence news items listed are the headlines; each is hyperlinked to the original, online news article behind that AI news headline, allowing you to gain an at-a-glance understanding of recent artificial intelligence news and developments, and also to instantly read those articles that interest you most.
Our monthly artificial intelligence news collections are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily startup news updates, which cover technology news from across 17 primary locations across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Artificial intelligence: Report lists 20 most serious concerns presented by misuse of AI, with deepfakes topping the list
- Researchers find benchmarking across 3,867 AI research papers to be inconsistent, with more appropriate alternative metrics rarely used
- ICYMI: Facebook AI Research and NYU Langone medical centre released results of test of effectiveness of jointly-produced AI-driven FastMRI system, aimed at speeding MRI scans
- ICYMI: US federal agencies to commit over $1BN across 5 years to establish 12 research institutes focused on artificial intelligence and quantum information sciences
- Artificial intelligence: A 90-second video overview of a handful of recent AI-focused news headlines
- Report: Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research releases Artificial Intelligence in Banking: The Changing Landscape in Compliance and Supervision
- An interview intro to AI Digital Stethoscope, open sourced and developed as part of the UNDP COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge, and aming for $1 overall cost
- Singapore: A look at Nextbillionai, reworking maps technology for logistics, ride-hailing, fleet management, e-commerce, delivery, and autonomous driving
- Taiwan: iKala raises $17M with AI-based customer engagement platform, aiming for Indonesia and Malaysia launches and growth in existing SEA markets presence
- What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking
- Vietnam: Computer Vision secures $500K funding with artificial intelligence and computer vision solutions for financial technology companies
- Taiwan: Microsoft to establish Internet of Things research and training center to develop artificial intelligence and IoT solutions for target industries
- China: A brief look at developments in courts-focused tech, combining private and external networks, internet, mobile and confidential information networking with AI and OCR
- ICYMI: Digital stethoscope under $1 that uses AI to diagnose respiratory symptoms via telemedicine, part of the UNDP COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge with Hackster
- Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom partners Yang-Ming and Chiao-Tung universities to develop smart healthcare utilizing 5G and artificial intelligence of things technologies
- Australia’s Aus4Innovation program partners Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Tech with Au$650K short-term funding for AI solutions COVID-19 and economic recovery
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