Google DeepMind utilise le machine learning pour combattre les maladies oculaires

Chaque vendredi, dans sa revue de presse, Maddyness vous propose une sélection d’articles qui ont retenu l’attention de la rédaction. Cette semaine, zoom Google qui mobilise DeepMind pour lutter contre la cessité, sur l'Hyperloop One et sur le boitier de Facebook qui permettra de connecter toute la planète en 4G.

Bots need a personality, not a brain like a vending machine

Facebook’s recent chatbot announcement about delivering ecommerce to the service’s extensive user base has put artificial intelligence into the spotlight again. However, there’s a major problem with these new bots: a lack of human understanding.

Source : Venture Beat

Google DeepMind pairs with NHS to use machine learning to fight blindness

Google DeepMind has announced its second collaboration with the NHS, working with Moorfields Eye Hospital in east London to build a machine learning system which will eventually be able to recognise sight-threatening conditions from just a digital scan of the eye.

Source  : The Guardian

If you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, keep waiting

Not a week goes by, it seems, without some sort of development in the world regarding self-driving cars. Whether it’s Google going on a hiring spree as it attempts to accelerate its efforts or General Motors acquiring Cruise, a driverless-car startup, the subject consistently finds a place in any given news cycle. And now Uber recently got in the mix, putting autonomous cars on the streets of Pittsburgh.

Source : TechCrunch