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Archive 2019Czech Companies Plan More Investments in Artificial Intelligence. What Do They Hope to Achieve?
More than 60% of Czech companies plan investments in artificial intelligence and its future applications across various fields, as revealed by a brief study by EY and the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic…
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Archive 2019Twelve Ideas from Sophia Martin for Developing a Smart App
Are you looking to embark on the development of a smart mobile application but lack an idea? Sophia Martin presents twelve ideas she sees as promising. Whether it's a healthcare app or a story reader that narrates books like a professional storyteller – there are always plenty of ideas.
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Archive 2019The Latest Artificial Intelligence Model for Natural Language Processing – ALBERT!
Among the top artificial intelligence models for natural language processing (Bert, Robert, GPT-2, or Megatron), a new player ALBERT joined the ranks last week! ALBERT is brought to us by…
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Archive 2019Czech Business Does Not Trust Artificial Intelligence. Why Has It Chosen a Wait-and-See Tactic?
An article inspired by Microsoft’s research titled “Czech Business Does Not Trust Artificial Intelligence. Why Has It Chosen a Wait-and-See Tactic?” is now appearing in Forbes and myBIZ. In accordance with...
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Archive 2019A New AI Hype Cycle from Gartner is Out
According to Gartner, the number of companies that have implemented AI has increased from 4% to 14% in the past year! Both proprietary ML solutions and…
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Archive 2019Map – Entities Working with Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has established a map that records companies and institutions engaged in the development of artificial intelligence. It is a combination of entities from the academic sphere and…
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Archive 2019Microsoft invests a billion dollars in OpenAI!
We write about OpenAI quite often. Not only were we amazed by their GPT-2 model, but we also noted how the famous Elon Musk helped establish it back in 2015, although he recently departed from the company.
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Archive 2019Elon Musk drew inspiration from sci-fi books; after the chip is introduced, you can read thoughts or insert them!
Elon Musk's company Neuralink had a presentation a few hours ago. They discussed their breakthroughs in electronics research, where instead of using a keyboard, you will use your thoughts….
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Archive 2019The First AI Academy for Secondary Schools Has Launched!
You may have noticed that there haven't been as many articles appearing here lately. Our attention has turned to creating the first AI Academy and…
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Archive 2019CTK Receives Grant from Google for AI Development in Text Generation!
Texts are created based on data and prepared templates. The planned system will also assign photographs to them. For CTK, this is reportedly the first project with…
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Archive 2019GPT-2 Interviews Alpha Industries Ltd.
I am still enchanted by the possibilities of the GPT-2 model. Today, I fine-tuned the system for questions and answers. I provided it with information about our company, Alpha Industries, and devised four questions, giving it the correct answer to three. I was curious to see how it would respond to the fourth question, and I must say, the model surprised me once again!
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Archive 2019The AI Model GPT-2 Generated an Article About Alpha Industries! What’s the Result?
I had the much-discussed AI model GPT-2 generate an article on the topic: “I love Alpha Industries – the best company in the world that...
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Archive 2019Artificial Intelligence Surprises in Debate Competition
The AI project Debater from IBM recently faced off against a world debate champion.
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Archive 2019Web Element – Lecture on AI
Are you interested in teaching your computer to understand written text? How we wrote a programme with the capacity of two cockroach brains and defeated IBM with it? How our…
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Archive 2019How Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Our Roads? A Group of Students Translates Theory into Practice
A group of American students uses TensorFlow and a camera to identify various road damages, such as cracks and potholes. The aim was to teach the programme to quickly locate road damage from footage captured by a camera mounted on the car's bonnet...
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Archive 2019Apple Receives an Invitation to Prague. IBM Wants to Explore Artificial Intelligence Here
In collaboration with IBM, a technology centre focused on artificial intelligence is set to be established in the Czech Republic. The Czech delegation met with IBM Vice President Martin Schroeter on Thursday,…
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Archive 2019Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial Intelligence
The world today brings many surprises. Computer gamers have always demanded excellent performance from their machines and the most faithful representation of increasingly demanding games. The willingness...
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Archive 2019Discussion: How to Program a Chatbot for Amazon?
We are pleased to share an invitation to this unique meeting with the creators of the Alquist chatbot, which (as you surely know) secured second place in the prestigious global competition by Amazon Alexa in 2017 and 2018. We wish them the best in the coming years!
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Archive 2018Košík at Christmas Minimises Food Waste Thanks to Artificial Intelligence
The grocery e-shop Košík.cz is already testing a system in live operation this Christmas, aimed at streamlining its supply and the entire supplier-customer chain. The new platform,…
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Archive 2018Research into the Potential Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic Highlights Possible Issues
On 17th December, the Government Office published four reports from the study Research into the Potential Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Czech Republic, including a summary report. The study was prepared by a team from the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CTU, and the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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Archive 2018Astronaut Chats with a 'Smart Robot' on the ISS and No One is Excited
CIMON, the new crew member of the International Space Station (ISS), is starting to get accustomed to weightlessness. And his colleagues are learning how to talk to him. The robot…
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Archive 2018Czech AI Celebrity Tomáš Mikolov on DV TV!
We are still a long way from AI, and perhaps we are doing it all wrong, says Tomáš. For him, artificial intelligence is a computer that can communicate like a human…
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Archive 2018Students from ČVUT Finished Second in the Competition for Conversational Artificial Intelligence
A team of students from Prague's ČVUT – Alquist – has secured second place for the second time in the prestigious Alexa Prize competition for the best conversational artificial intelligence, organised by…
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Archive 2018Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Invent Anything on Its Own
We encounter artificial intelligence every day. The problem with its wider adoption and improvement is the insufficient sharing of data and a lack of quality personnel, making it challenging…
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