Artificial intelligence
March 2020 News
A brief round-up of AI news and ML news headlines, where possible looking at developments in South and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and drawn from English-language press online across March 2020.
- “…tech evangelists claim now is the time for AI education. But as the technology’s power grows, so too do the dangers that come with it.”
- Social media and beyond: “Coronavirus is AI moderation’s big test. Don’t expect flying colors”
- ICYMI: AlphaGo, The Movie, chronicling DeepMind’s artificial intelligence research and implementation in the game of Go
- Australia: Federal Police and forces in Queensland, Victoria and SA found to have dozens of accounts with facial recognition firm Clearview AI
- China: in 2019, Ministry of Education approved applications for 180 more colleges to offer majors in artificial intelligence, up from 35 in 2018
- India: Salesken AI-backed salesperson-focused platform raises $8M with ML and data science tools to aid in the sales process
- ICYMI – A simple comparison: Machine learning vs artificial intelligence vs deep learning
- India: Tricog healthtech startup raises $10.5M with virtual cardiology services, using AI for the diagnosis of heart failure and screening for congenital heart disease
- India: A look at Niramai, startup working on radiation-free, non-invasive breast cancer screening which detects malignancies in 15 minutes
- ICYMI: Y Combinator Winter 2020 Demo Day startups working in hardware, robots, AI and developer tools
- Taiwan: A look at mlytics, firm using AI to monitor internet traffic and automatically route page traffic to the best-performing content delivery network
- An intro look at the wide range of activities within the Asian Development Bank’s digital innovation sandbox program
- India: AI education module introduced to 5000 school-based labs serving 2.5M students, aiming to aid students innovate and create solutions that benefit society
- Taiwan: An overview of the recent SparkLabs Taipei demo day, and the 8 tech startups that presented
