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Latest Tech: Huawei spin-off Honor shows off tech to control a car with your eyes and chatbot based on Meta’s AI

25Feb

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Latest Tech: Huawei spin-off Honor shows off tech to control a car with your eyes and chatbot based on Meta’s AI

Honor demonstrated how its smartphone eye-tracking technology could be used to control a car.HonorBARCELONA — Chinese firm Honor on Sunday showed off technology that allows a user to control a car just by using their eyes.The company's Magic 6 Pro device launched internationally on Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. As part of its press conference, Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the smartphone. The phone uses the selfie cameras and artificial intelligence to track where on the screen your eyes are looking.One demo involved an app to control a car. The app had four commands — engine start, engine stop, backward and forward.In a video about the feature, Honor showed how a person could stare at one of the commands and the car would carry out the functio...

Latest Tech: How AI Takes ‘Democratized’ Innovation To The Next Level

Ai as idea generator for allgetty First, there was crowdsourcing — the idea that everyone has something to contribute to the organization or problem at hand. Can generative AI finesse on this concept, and make it more workable? The concept of “democratized” innovation came to the forefront with online crowdsourcing and its sibling of idea competitions, which have seen widespread use from product testing to developing applications to run on NASA spacecraft. At the same time, while most frequently employed for solving simple challenges such as choosing a corporate logos, crowdsourcing suffers from a “lack of trust in the intellectual power of the crowds and their ability to tackle complex problems,” relates Eugene Ivanov of CRDF Global in an analysis at HeroX. Another challenge is conf...

Game Tech: Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company

Ever posted or left a comment on Reddit? Your words will soon be used to train an artificial intelligence companies' models, according to Bloomberg. The website signed a deal that's "worth about $60 million on an annualized basis" earlier this year, it reportedly told potential investors ahead of its expected initial public offering (IPO). Bloomberg didn't name the "large AI company" that's paying Reddit millions for access to its content, but their agreement could apparently serve as a model for future contracts, which could mean more multi-million deals for the firm.Reddit first announced that it was going to start charging companies for API access in April last year. It said at the time that pricing will be split in tiers so that even smaller clientele could afford to pay. Companies ...