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Putting the skeleton back in the closet
Putting the skeleton back in the closet
Does action recognition need pose estimation?
Twenty Billion Neurons
Dec 14, 2020
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Towards Situated Visual AI via End-to-End Learning on Video Clips
Towards Situated Visual AI via End-to-End Learning on Video Clips
We are excited to announce the public release of 20bn-realtimenet.
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 23, 2020
Brains Over Beauty, or Building AI Avatars Inside Out
Brains Over Beauty, or Building AI Avatars Inside Out
There have been a lot of exciting events and developments in the realm of AI and virtual beings since fall 2019:
Nahua Kang
Feb 24, 2020
5 Reasons Bodyweight Training is the Best Workout for Busy People
5 Reasons Bodyweight Training is the Best Workout for Busy People
There’s a new gym opening up, and you have a free lifetime membership. This gym is always open and follows you wherever you go. This gym…
Isaac Wu
Dec 5, 2019
(Video) Millie Fit: Your On-Demand AI Trainer
(Video) Millie Fit: Your On-Demand AI Trainer
Technology is transforming both the fitness industry and how people exercise. Premium gyms and boutiques are quickly giving way to…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jul 30, 2019
5 Ways to Design an AI Assistant that isn’t Socially Awkward
5 Ways to Design an AI Assistant that isn’t Socially Awkward
Voice assistants, while intelligent, helpful and fast, demonstrate socially awkward behavior: they have to be told when they can enter a…
David Greenberg
May 30, 2019
Deepfake: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Deepfake: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
This blog post is featured in the newsletter Embodied AI, your bi-weekly digest on the latest news, tech, and trends for AI avatars…
Nahua Kang
May 16, 2019
You lookin’ at me, Alexa? Welcome to the next generation of AI assistants
You lookin’ at me, Alexa? Welcome to the next generation of AI assistants
You know the scene. Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle stares intensely at himself in the mirror: “You talkin’ to me?” A gun clicks into…
David Greenberg
May 8, 2019
5 Lessons from Clippy’s Failure
5 Lessons from Clippy’s Failure
What the rising AI avatar industry can learn from the brief career of a Microsoft Office assistant
Nahua Kang
May 2, 2019
Human-AI relationship: Delights don’t need to have violent ends
Human-AI relationship: Delights don’t need to have violent ends
An investigation into the different cultural attitudes in the West and in Japan about AI and robots
Twenty Billion Neurons
Apr 18, 2019
Alexa isn’t “incredibly stupid”. She just lacks situational awareness.
Alexa isn’t “incredibly stupid”. She just lacks situational awareness.
This blog post is also featured in the third issue of Embodied AI, the definitive AI avatar newsletter.
Twenty Billion Neurons
Apr 5, 2019
“Do you want eyes with that?”
“Do you want eyes with that?”
Why AI assistants should become AI avatars
Twenty Billion Neurons
Mar 22, 2019
“I see avatars a-rising”: Your guide to the AI avatar landscape
“I see avatars a-rising”: Your guide to the AI avatar landscape
This blog post is taken out of Embodied AI, the definitive market intelligence synthesis of the latest news, technology, and trends behind…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Mar 11, 2019
Intelligent Avatars: AI’s Adjacent Possible
Intelligent Avatars: AI’s Adjacent Possible
Have you ever wondered why the backpropagation algorithm was invented in the 1980s but the AI boom of deep learning only took off over 25…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jan 29, 2019
Your Digital In-Store Expert for Everything
Your Digital In-Store Expert for Everything
How to use the TwentyBN platform to customize an intelligent avatar and sell your brand
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jan 14, 2019
Introducing Millie, the First Context-Aware A.I. on the Planet
Introducing Millie, the First Context-Aware A.I. on the Planet
One Avatar, Many Applications
Twenty Billion Neurons
Dec 3, 2018
The Path Towards Situated A.I.
The Path Towards Situated A.I.
A sneak peak of our upcoming announcement at NeurIPS 2018
Twenty Billion Neurons
Nov 23, 2018
Pre-Trained Models for Visual Common Sense in AI
Pre-Trained Models for Visual Common Sense in AI
If you’ve been following our blog this past summer, you’d have already noticed that we have released Something-Something V2, the world’s…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 31, 2018
Take a Look at the Live Demo of TwentyBN’s Touchless Sensing & Gesture Recognition Webinar
Take a Look at the Live Demo of TwentyBN’s Touchless Sensing & Gesture Recognition Webinar
Last week, we held our first webinar this year on touchless sensing and gesture recognition using TwentyBN’s technology. In this webinar…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 10, 2018
TwentyBN Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Core Technology
TwentyBN Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Core Technology
We are excited to be chosen as a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Core Technology in 2018. A few reasons why Gartner chose TwentyBN:
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 5, 2018
TwentyBN Raises $10 Million in Series A to Build Intuitive Digital Companions
TwentyBN Raises $10 Million in Series A to Build Intuitive Digital Companions
We are very excited to share with you that TwentyBN has raised $10 million Series A funding, led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 3, 2018
TwentyBN’s VentureBeat Exclusive on Series A Funding and Roadmap on Intuitive AI
TwentyBN’s VentureBeat Exclusive on Series A Funding and Roadmap on Intuitive AI
Have you read VentureBeat’s exclusive coverage of TwentyBN’s Series A funding round and how we plan to achieve intuitive AI? In this…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Oct 1, 2018
Something-Something V2 Release
Something-Something V2 Release
Something-Something is a large-scale video initiative for teaching machines common sense of the physical world. Today, TwentyBN releases…
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jul 2, 2018
Rise of (Pragmatic) AI 2018
Rise of (Pragmatic) AI 2018
Demonstrating TwentyBN’s video recognition system to the European tech industry
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jun 13, 2018
Making It Rain at ICLR 2018
Making It Rain at ICLR 2018
Showcasing TwentyBN video recognition system to the global AI community
Twenty Billion Neurons
Jun 5, 2018
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