November 21 – 5 Key Stories From The Digital World
- Amazon is making grocery delivery a built-in feature of Prime subscriptions
- Groceries represent an estimated $675 billion U.S. market that is increasingly going digital
- U.S. food and beverage ecommerce sales will grow 18.2 percent to nearly $20 billion this year, making it “the fastest-growing product category online.”
- devised MuZero, which combines a tree-based search (where a tree is a data structure used for locating information from within a set) with a learned model
- paves the way for learning methods in a host of real-world domains, particularly those lacking a simulator that communicates rules or environment dynamics
- matched the superhuman performance of high-performance planning algorithms in their favored domains…and outperformed state-of-the-art model-free [reinforcement learning] algorithms in their favored domains
- Using sensing technologies and automatic brakes, WHILL’s wheelchairs detect and avoid obstacles in busy airports
- there are 70 million potential customers for assistive technology products across Europe
- spending on assistive technologies for the elderly and people with disabilities is projected to reach over $26 billion by 2024
- service uses machine learning to highlight clauses it thinks users need to know about, including options to opt out from data collection
- isn’t a replacement for a real lawyer, but it’s better than accepting a license agreement sight unseen
- around 200 different key terms that Do Not Sign searches for in contracts…use machine learning to help retrieve these clauses and all their variations
- combination of analytics and video is helping coaches to hone player performance and the sport is keen to push innovative use of technology in all areas of the game
- portal uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match big data with video of game-changing points
- next area of development in tennis is likely to focus on connectivity, particularly in terms of IoT sensors on balls and on players