The brain's secret to life-long learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence
When the human brain learns something new, it adapts. But when artificial intelligence learns something new, it tends to forget information it already learned.
How machine learning can improve food insecurity predictions
Food insecurity in low-income countries is on the rise as climate variation and economic shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, take their toll. Accurately predicting when and where hunger crises occur is critical to effective humanitarian aid response.
The state of AI ethics: The principles, the tools, the regulations
There's a wide array of issues associated with the term "AI ethics," ranging from bias in algorithms to the environmental impact of AI tech.
DeepMind AlphaCode rivals the abilities of human programmers
DeepMind’s AI coder AlphaCode has proven capable of rivalling the abilities of a standard human programmer.
Why Can’t We Pay Attention Anymore?
Two new books, Johann Hari’s “Stolen Focus” and Jacob Ward’s “The Loop,” examine the ways technology affects our brains.
DeepMind's AI programming tool AlphaCode tests in top 54% of human coders
The team at DeepMind has tested the programming skills of its AI programming tool AlphaCode against human programmer competitors and has found it tested in the top 54 percent of human coders. In their preprint article, the group at DeepMind suggests that its programming application has opened the door to future tools that could make programming easier and more accessible.
Annotell raises $24M to develop data labeling tools for autonomous driving systems
Annotell, a company developing data labeling tools for autonomous vehicle systems, has raised $24 million in venture capital.
Like peanut butter? This algorithm has a hunch as to what you'll buy next
Recommendation algorithms can make a customer's online shopping experience quicker and more efficient by suggesting complementary products whenever the shopper adds a product to their basket. Did the customer buy peanut butter? The algorithm recommends several brands of jelly to add next.
Rendered.ai unveils Platform as a Service for creating synthetic data to train AI models
As more organizations are turning to synthetic data to feed their data-hungry machine learning algorithms, Rendered.ai wants to help.
Sam's Club betting its cleaning robots can do double duty
Maybe the Walmart empire isn't done with merchandise scanning robots after all.
Bad news for developers? Deepmind's AI is getting good at writing code
DeepMind says its research could eventually help programmers code more efficiently and open up the field to people who don't code.
The brain’s secret to life-long learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence
As companies use more and more data to improve how AI recognizes images, learns languages and carries out other complex tasks, a recent article shows a way that computer chips could dynamically rewire themselves to take in new data like the brain does, helping AI to keep learning over time.
People prefer interacting with female robots in hotels, study finds
People are more comfortable talking to female rather than male robots working in service roles in hotels, according to new research. The study, which surveyed about 170 people on hypothetical service robot scenarios, also found that the preference was stronger when the robots were described as having more human features.
Findability hopes to make AI adoption easier for enterprises
Findability's suite allows orgs to embed AI technology into their pre-existing hardware and software to enhance features and functionalities.
How AI accelerates insurance claims processing
Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. The immediate aftermath of a vehicular crash is difficult for all parties involved. The drivers have to process the trauma, address injuries with medical attention, exchange information, and figure out how to get their damaged cars repaired or replaced.
Report: 75% of security leaders seek to implement edge use cases
There's a surprising momentum to implement more edge use cases, despite a perceived risk of deploying and securing edge computing.
How video games could be used to generate AI training data
Some researchers believe that video games could be used to more effectively generate AI training data. But they're not a perfect solution.
DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder
After simulating 10 contests, with more than 5,000 participants, AlphaCode has ranks in the top 54%.