Deep Neural Networks Are Helping Decipher How Brains Work
Neuroscientists are finding that deep-learning networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” can be good models for the organization of living brains.
Robot Bores: AI-powered awkward first date
Two chatbots meet and put the world to rights online in battle to see who is most human-like.
How to make sure your ‘AI for good’ project actually does good
AI-for-good projects can easily go wrong if you don't ask the right questions and include the right people from the start.
Brazil publishes National Innovation Policy
A strategy will be created to address areas such as skills and international engagement.
Opinion | How to Take On the Tech Barons
Something has to be done about the technology sector. Here’s what to keep in mind.
Hands-on: Amazon Fresh grocery stores tease brick-and-mortar retail’s future
Amazon's new brick-and-mortar stores use high-tech shopping carts to update the traditional grocery shopping experience, with mixed results.
AWS releases models and datasets to help predict COVID-19’s spread
Amazon Web Services released open source datasets and models that could help predict the spread of COVID-19.
AI Weekly: In a chaotic year, AI is quietly accelerating the pace of space exploration
AI and machine learning technologies are accelerating space exploration during a chaotic year on planet Earth.
Google says its Parallel Tacotron model generates synthetic voices 13 times faster than its predecessor
Google researchers claim their Parallel Tacotron system can generate synthetic voices up to 13 times faster than their last one.
Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in 18 accidents over 20 months
Waymo released a safety report outlining the accidents and near-collisions its cars encountered in the years they've been driving in Phoenix.
Sensing emotions in a crisis
From Twitter to Facebook to Reddit, billions of people around the world use social media daily to connect with friends and family, as well as to share their stories, feelings and opinions about the state of the world around them. As such, social media has become a prime playground for social sensing—methods that use humans as "sensors" to gather information.
‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI – podcast
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots?
Tech gifts for your favorite junior roboticists and hackers
If you want to spark the imagination of your kids while at the same time giving them a leg up with some of the tech skills they'll need as adults, you can't go wrong by looking at these products as gifts this holiday season.
NHS contact-tracing app upgrade is more likely to warn users to self-isolate
The NHS's contact-tracing up has received a significant upgrade to boost the technology's accuracy. Developers are now confident enough to issue more warnings.
A Navy SEAL, a Quadcopter, and a Quest to Save Lives in Combat
On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.
HP introduces new digital manufacturing innovations ahead of Formnext Connect
HP has partnered up with other 3D printing innovators to introduce new solutions for build automation, build APIs, and post-processing.
Trump faces executive order lawsuit as critical race theory fuels AI research
President Trump is attacking critical race theory, but Google researchers and other scholars are using it to evaluate AI fairness and race.
Services Australia has a JobKeeper data exchange arrangement with the ATO
Because the last time the department pulled information from Australian Taxation Office systems worked so well.