All machine learning articles
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ArticleOEM and Tier One venture divisions invest in start-ups: BMW for machine intelligence and cybersecurity, Faurecia for cognitive science, Toyota for robotics
BMW i Ventures in Silicon Valley BMW’s i Ventures capital fund, based in Mountain View, California [HQ pictured], is investing in two-year-old machine intelligence company Graphcore, based in Bristol, UK, and with offices in London, Oslo, Palo Alto and Beijing. Graphcore is said to be developing a ...
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ArticleTomTom marks 1.5 billion map updates a month, gets “closer to real-time”
Image: TomTom/BusinesswireTomTom has announced that its changes to its digital maps are now at the level of 1.5 billion updates per month – an average of over 520 updates per second, including altered road junctions, new addresses, geometry and road features. This is said to represent updates to 1.32 ...
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ArticleContinental joins UC Berkeley DeepDrive AI research center
Image: ContinentalContinental is joining the UC Berkeley DeepDrive center (BDD), an artificial intelligence research partnership which is focusing on optimizing speed of neural networks and protecting AI systems in safety-critical applications.The first year of the five-year joint research programme will focus on the testability of AI algorithms in safety-relevant ...
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ArticleBosch and Daimler announce pilot automated driving trial in California
Image: DaimlerBosch and Daimler have announced a pilot trial of fully-automated and driverless driving in an as-yet unnamed metropolitan city in California, with a test fleet hitting the road in the second half of next year. Daimler Mobility Services is expected to be the operator of a fleet of ...
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ArticleContinental and DFKI to partner on AI research
Image: ContinentalThe German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is to partner with Continental and establish a joint research lab at the DFKI facility in Kaiserslautern. Here, Continental employees will look at specific issues such as AI-supported methods of data analysis and software development. A statement describes this as research ...
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ArticleContinental exhibits computer vision platform with AI
Image: ContinentalContinental has shown and outlined a computer vision platform for automated vehicles at CES Asia. This uses artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning to improve the ‘scene understanding’ and analysis of data from sensors and cameras.Neural networks will be used in Continental’s next-generation cameras, to go into ...
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ArticleBMW Group opens autonomous driving campus near Munich
BMW is recruiting IT specialists and software developers for its new autonomous driving campus (Photo: BMW)BMW Group has officially inaugurated its autonomous driving campus and development facility at Unterschleissheim, near Munich. This ‘centre of excellence’ is close to BMW’s existing Research and Innovation Centre, and it enables the bringing-together ...
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ArticleVW CIO touts possibilities of machine learning
VW's Hofmann: Embrace machine learning or lose competitiveness (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER --Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann believes machine learning is coming into its own as a means to achieve significant digital innovation across all business areas."Machine learning is no longer science fiction," Hofmann told the automotiveIT Congress. "It's here and ...
