Redirect military budgets to tackle climate change and pandemics
Governments should stop spending billions of dollars on weapons and protect citizens from the real threats they face.
Machine learning, meet human emotions: How to help a computer monitor your mental state
Researchers from Skoltech, INRIA and the RIKEN Advanced Intelligence Project have considered several state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for the challenging tasks of determining the mental workload and affective states of a human brain. Their software can help design smarter brain-computer interfaces for applications in medicine and beyond.
The AI version of the Weeknd and I are now BFFs — deal with it
Spotify has created an AI-powered microsite that lets you hear the Weeknd's thoughts on your listening habits. I checked it out.
AI automatic tuning delivers step forward in quantum computing
Researchers at Oxford University, in collaboration with DeepMind, University of Basel and Lancaster University, have created a machine learning algorithm that interfaces with a quantum device and 'tunes' it faster than human experts, without any human input.
The White House is set to boost AI funding by 30 percent
A budget proposal from the White House would boost funding for AI by around 30 percent as the US aims to retain its technological supremacy.
An introduction to one-shot learning
Passport checks at airports and border gates present a special challenge: How do you tell if the person standing in front of you is the same person whose picture is in the passport? Border and customs officers solve this problem using the complex mec
Rewriting the rules of machine-generated art
Horses don't normally wear hats, and deep generative models, or GANs, don't normally follow rules laid out by human programmers. But a new tool developed at MIT lets anyone go into a GAN and tell the model, like a coder, to put hats on the heads of the horses it draws.
Aristotle and the chatbot: How ancient rules of logic could make artificial intelligence more human
Many attempts to develop artificial intelligence are powered by powerful systems of mathematical logic. They tend to produce results that make logical sense to a computer program—but the result is not very human.
With Galaxy Note 20, Samsung reaches beyond the screen
Putting digital pen to screen defines the Note, but Samsung has included new wireless connection methods that could be particularly useful in the age of COVID-19.
Researchers ask AI to explain itself
It's a question that many of us encounter in childhood: "Why did you do that?" As artificial intelligence (AI) begins making more consequential decisions that affect our lives, we also want these machines to be capable of answering that simple yet profound question.
Vroom vroom: AI reveals F1’s fastest drivers of the past 40 years
F1 and AWS have used an algorithm to rank the fastest drivers of all time, but not everyone is convinced by the system's calculations.
Fintech just made a big leap forward in this tiny country: Here's why
Innovations in digital payments is helping Balkan state Croatia develop its fintech industry.
UK government takes the next step in bringing self-driving cars to motorways
A new consultation aims to explore how autonomous technology can be used safely on UK roads.
Skewed Grading Algorithms Fuel Backlash Beyond the Classroom
Thousands protest in the UK after a formula replaced a test that influences college placement. It's led to broader scrutiny of automation and inequality.
NSW seeking approval to put GPS repeaters in Sydney tunnels
Current Australian laws ban the retransmission of satellite signals used in navigation.
Is Anthos the edge Google needs in enterprise cloud?
In 3rd place in the cloud wars for years, the emergence of Google's Anthos last year was a welcome move that makes a versatile multicloud future for businesses not just a possibility, but a practical option today. But is this what Google needs to tru
Facebook forcing Oculus users to have an account on its platform
Oculus mandates Facebook account for VR log in from beginning of October.
A New Software Tool - Fawkes - Cloaks Your Images to Trick Facial Recognition Algorithms
A new tool to protect yourself against facial recognition software designed by University of Chicago researchers The rapid rise of facial recognition systems has placed the technology into many facets of our daily lives, whether we know it or not. Wh