As banks push AI, worry about worsening inequality follows
Banks, consumer advocates and think tanks are weighing in to federal bank regulators about potential pitfalls in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in making loan decisions.
Supercomputing can help address blockchain's biggest problem. Here's how
Blockchain is far from environmentally friendly. Using lessons learned from supercomputing, scientists are now developing methods to reduce blockchain's energy consumption, while increasing its scalability.
VR puts nail in the coffin for cadavers
Haptics and 3D spatial imaging are helping transform medical training for surgeons in biggest leap forward in generations.
MP Maria Miller wants AI 'nudifying' tool banned
A website that allows people to undress a photograph in seconds is gaining lots of users.
This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment
Misogyny on the internet too often slips through the filters of content moderators. A new method hopes to inject more nuance into the process.
After Yang review: A delightful movie about robots teaching humans
After Yang is a thoughtful film about a couple who purchase an android friend for their young daughter. It evokes a future where humans learn moral lessons from robots
Researchers use AI to unlock the secrets of ancient texts
The Abbey Library of St. Gall in Switzerland is home to approximately 160,000 volumes of literary and historical manuscripts dating back to the eighth century—all of which are written by hand, on parchment, in languages rarely spoken in modern times.
The Pentagon says its new AI can see events 'days in advance'
The US military has been trialing the use of an algorithm that anticipates the enemy's next move in advance.
Aussie court rules AIs can be credited as inventors under patent law
A federal court in Australia has ruled that AI systems can be credited as inventors under patent law in a case that could set a global precedent.
'Origami' testing app could help tackle spread of malaria
A new approach to tackling the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, which combines affordable, easy-to-administer blood tests with machine learning and unbreakable encryption, has generated encouraging early results in Uganda.
Can AI improve your pickup lines?
GPT-3 slides into your DMs thanks to new research on AI and dating.
How Three Artificial Intelligence Technologies Can Sharpen a Company’s Strategic Edge
Using Artificial Intelligence, corporations can see new patterns in their data and maintain a competitive edge. Blending these AI technologies into business strategy and operations is the subject of a newly published book. Deploying an Artificial Int
AI Helps Predict Winners and Losers in Clinical Trials
Pradipta Ghosh has plans to revolutionize the drug discovery pipeline.
A comprehensive study of technological change
The societal impacts of technological change can be seen in many domains, from messenger RNA vaccines and automation to drones and climate change. The pace of that technological change can affect its impact, and how quickly a technology improves in performance can be an indicator of its future importance.
Twitter turns to HackerOne community to help fix its AI biases
Twitter is recruiting the help of the HackerOne community to try and fix troubling biases with its AI models.
Turning network traffic data into music
Cybersecurity analysts deal with an enormous amount of data, especially when monitoring network traffic. If one were to print the data in text form, a single day's worth of network traffic may be akin to a thick phonebook. In other words, detecting an abnormality is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Interpretable machine learning predicts terrorism worldwide
About 20 years ago, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed almost 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, New York and at the Pentagon. Since then, a vast amount of research has been carried out to better understand the mechanisms behind terrorism in the hope of preventing future potentially devastating acts of terror.
Using generalization techniques to make AI systems more versatile
A group at DeepMind called the Open-Ended Learning Team has developed a new way to train AI systems to play games. Instead of exposing it to millions of prior games, as is done with other game playing AI systems, the group at DeepMind has given its new AI system agents a set of minimal skills that they use to achieve a simple goal (such as spotting another player in a virtual world) and then build on it.