Gary Marcus: COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for AI
COVID-19 may be a "wake-up call" for the environment and global equality, but Gary Marcus thinks it should serve as a wake-up call for AI too.
How to edit writing by a robot: a step-by-step guide
Commissioning GPT-3 was a fun – and strange – lesson in artificial intelligence. Here’s how we did it
ProBeat: The TikTok acquisition is not going to happen
ByteDance being forced to sell TikTok never made sense, and the reasons against a deal keep mounting thanks to Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
Researchers claim masks muffle speech, but not enough to impede speech recognition
New research investigates the acoustic effects of various mask types, which has implications for speech recognition systems.
COVID-19 Pandemic Spawns “Infodemic” in Scientific Literature
New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information. The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of research studies that it is hard for anyone to digest them all, underscoring a long-standing
Garden of evil: Trevor Paglen's sinister digital paradise puts you in the picture
Pace Gallery, London and onlineThe artist’s AI images of nature are not what they seem – and they aren’t the only things being watched in this mind-boggling show about surveillance
World Landmark Photos Turned Into 4D Experiences
With some tourist photos being publicly available, landmarks such as the Colosseum in Italy or Trevi Fountain in Rome, researchers have developed a method to create 3D images showing the changes in appearance over time.
Computer scientists use artificial intelligence to predict the frequencies of drug side effects
A new algorithm has been developed by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London, to predict the side effects of drugs before they hit the market by using the same principle by which movies are recommended to users.
Airborne groceries? Tesco to trial drone deliveries
The supermarket chain is teaming up with a drone start-up to deliver groceries faster.
AI tech to spot dangerous drivers
New license recognition technology could one day be used to detect dangerous drivers before problems arise.
Smart contact lens prototype raises eyebrows
This prosthetic iris demonstrates the power and promise of nanotechnology.
NASA will pay private companies for lunar samples, materials excavated from the Moon
The payoff is paltry, but there are other reasons for the proposal.
Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery
Congress heard testimony today about how the U.S. government should fund and regulate tech that can eliminate jobs in the midst of a recession.
The state of artificial intelligence-based FDA-approved medical devices and algorithms: an online database
Avian Influenza (AI) is a complex but still poorly understood disease; specifically when it comes to reservoirs, co-infections, connectedness and wider landscape perspectives. Low pathogenic (Low-path LP) AI in chickens caused by less virulent strains of AI viruses (AIVs)—when compared with highly pathogenic AIVs (HPAIVs)—are not even well-described yet or known how they contribute to wider AI and immune system issues.
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The newest version of Microsoft's DeepSpeed library includes optimizations for training trillion-parameter machine learning models.
Google claims its AI is becoming better at recognizing breaking news and misinformation
Google says its automated systems are becoming better at recognizing breaking news and detecting false and misleading information.
A beginner’s guide to AI: Separating the hype from the reality
An advanced artificial intelligence created by OpenAI, a company founded by genius billionaire Elon Musk, recently penned an op-ed for The Guardian that was so convincingly human many readers were astounded and frightened. And, ew. Just writing that sentence made me feel like a terrible journalist.
DeepMind's AlphaZero breathes new life into the old art of chess
"Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it," chess master William Napier once said, "but that is the fault of life, not chess."