The yr 2021 shouldn’t be even a month outdated, and we’ve already seen a big quantity of reports within the space of synthetic intelligence. This is nice to watch, as a result of I consider AI will remodel the way in which we work and reside greater than any expertise because the beginning of the Internet.
AI is at present being infused into client gadgets, enterprise purposes, IoT endpoints and nearly every thing else. To date, AI has been utilized by data-heavy verticals, corresponding to well being care, oil and gasoline and analysis labs, however, as will be seen by the information this month, AI is now getting used extra broadly for a wider vary of use instances.
I offered an evaluation of those bulletins in my most up-to-date ZKast video podcast collection, executed along with eWEEK. Here are highlights of the notable information objects.
Uniphore acquires Emotion Research Labs
Uniphore is one in every of many cloud corporations that play within the contact middle house with an AI twist. While the corporate does provide a typical contact middle as a service (CCaaS) resolution, its energy is its conversational AI instruments, that are utilized by quite a lot of companions corresponding to NTT DATA, Tech Mahindra, PNB MetLife, Firstsource and Cisco Systems.
The acquisition of Emotion Research Labs (ERL) brings video AI within the type of emotion and engagement detection. Video is now getting used for customer support, gross sales, educating, conferences, court docket proceedings and an entire lot extra. One of the challenges in video, significantly with greater than a handful of individuals, is knowing individuals’s reactions. The ERL AI is all the time watching and may present rapid suggestions to the presenter.
Otter.ai provides assist for Google Meet
Otter.ai is a transcription engine and is an absolute no brainer for anybody that does a big variety of digital conferences. I’ve examined many transcription instruments and Otter is flat out the most effective and most correct one available on the market. I take advantage of it on a regular basis and run it in a browser for many of my conferences as a result of it saves me from taking copious notes. The benefit of the Google Meet integration is customers can flip it on and off proper from Meet and see the transcription in it as an alternative of getting to flip between two separate apps. This follows up on the Zoom integration launched final yr.
NVIDIA declares DRIVE IX
There is maybe no vendor that has grow to be extra synonymous with AI than NVIDIA. Its GPUs are present in client gadgets, computer systems, servers, supercomputers and, after all, cars. To date, a lot of the focus from NVIDIA within the space of vehicles has been to excellent autonomous driving, and its Drive package is utilized by nearly all mainstream auto producers to take self-driving from the stuff of science fiction to actuality.
Its newest launch, DRIVE IX, shifts AI gears within the automobile away from driving to driver monitoring. This video on the NVIDIA website reveals how AI can be utilized to watch driver consideration, exercise, emotion, habits, posture, speech, gesture and temper. The system is sensible sufficient to even inform if a driver is squinting due to solar glare. These options can be utilized for higher personalization and digital assistant purposes. The NVIDIA base facial recognition and…
