Grocery chain Giant Eagle launches checkout-free system in Pittsburgh-area store
Grabango, the startup behind Giant Eagle's new system, says the launch marks the first time an existing retail store in the US has been retrofitted with AI-powered tech that eliminates the need to wait in a checkout line.
Q&A: The embedded ethics approach in AI development
The increasing use of AI (artificial intelligence) in the development of new medical technologies demands greater attention to ethical aspects. An interdisciplinary team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) advocates the integration of ethics from the very beginning of the development process of new technologies.
Walmart takes on Amazon Prime with cheap subscription service, gas deals
Walmart hopes free unlimited deliveries and fuel discounts will lure Prime users over to the other side.
How to Survive a Robot Invasion, book review: Humans are the problem
Without careful safeguards, all the problems we complain about with biased algorithms and social media business models will be repeated with robots, only more so.
AI research to aid women's safety on public transport
World-first artificial intelligence software will target violence on public transport.
A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can’t imitate human writing
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming industries and businesses. Last week, many tech publications broke news about a blog generated by artificial intelligence that fooled thousands of users and landed on top of the Hacker News forum.
KT aiming for serving robots across Mad for Garlic restaurant chain
The robots will lessen staff workload and reduce human to human contact, the telco said.
Commercialisation of Aussie big bank-backed IBM blockchain guarantee platform Lygon
Commercial launch for the blockchain-based platform for bank guarantees is backed by three of Australia's finance heavyweights.
An embedded ethics approach for AI development
The increasing use of AI (artificial intelligence) in the development of new medical technologies demands greater attention to ethical aspects. An interdisciplinary team advocates the integration of ethics from the very beginning of the development process of new technologies.
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery system earns key FAA certification
The certification gives Amazon the green light to begin testing customer drone deliveries in the US, bringing it up to speed with Alphabet's Wing and UPS.
I was excited for Neuralink. Then I watched Elon Musk’s stupid demo
Last week Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a startup working on creating a brain computer interface (BCI) for consumers, held a “tech demo” to show off the company’s progress over the last year. Let me sum it up for you: Musk and Neuralink have figured out how to do basic brain surgery.
How AI Has Helped The Dark Web
Law enforcement agencies working online benefit from machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) , which lead to leading solutions. ML and AI work together, and automated methods can search the dark web, detect illegal…
AI job listings plummet as COVID-19 recession appears imminent
The last thing we expected to see near the end of 2020 was a truce between human job-seekers and the deep learning systems replacing them, but the possibility of an impending recession has upended the AI market. According to experts, COVID-19 has stalled the once meteoric rise of available jobs for deep learning developers.
AI and the Stone Age, an Unlikely Crossover.
Often, we hear about AI being a tool to get out of a “modern Stone Age” but very rarely a tool to dive in to the stone age. However, a recent joint venture by the University of Liverpool and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History h
Eau de AI: Perfume engineered by data
Dior, Armani, Yves Saint Laurent….IBM? Read on to find how AI is conquering yet another market you didn’t expect it to be in.
New AI approach investigates multiple gene regulatory mechanisms
A research team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed a new Gene Expression Embedding frameworK (GEEK), which uses artificial intelligence technologies in machine learning and natural language processing to study the regulation of gene expression.
Pizza topping narc tattles on gloveless employees
Systems designed to bring efficiencies to sectors like grocery and restaurants now doing double duty as hygiene watchdogs.
Alleged fraud related to Commonwealth IT contracts under investigation
Revealed by the Australian National Audit Office in a review that also finds the Digital Transformation Agency fell short on complying with the commonwealth procurement rules where its digital marketplace panel is concerned.