Bill in Congress would require businesses receive consent before using biometric data
Proposed in the U.S. Senate, the National Biometric Information Privacy Act would require businesses get consent to collect or share biometric data.
The problem of underrepresented languages snowballs from data sets to NLP models
In a study, researchers find that NLP pipelines often discriminate against certain languages. This can lead to unintentional underrepresentation.
Watch: Deepfakes Jay-Z raps the Navy SEAL copypasta meme to live jazz music
My editor-in-chief dared me to pull a bunch of random topics out of a hat and write a compelling tech story about them. Here’s what I got: Jay-Z, neural networks, the US Navy SEALs, and jazz music. Luckily for me, I happened across this video featuri
Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model
Microsoft researchers propose a new training technique that achieves state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing biomedical tasks.
Kite brings its AI-powered code completions to Jupyter notebooks
Kite's code completions powered deep learning now work with JupyterLab and JupyterHub, helping data scientists as they type Python.
From HAL-9000 to the Terminator, why we see AI as a threat to humans but not as truly evil in film.
The idea of intelligent robots has been in cinema for close to 100 years, beginning with Metropolis (1927)
UK ditches visa algorithm accused of creating ‘speedy boarding for white people’
The British government is scrapping a controversial algorithm used in visa applications that campaigners say discriminated against certain nationalities.
Neural network model finds small objects in dense images
In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to accurately detect small, geometric objects such as triangles within dense, low-quality plots contained in image data.
The ultimate in working from home: Amazon's engineers are building robots in their garages
Amazon's employees have found ways to keep building high-tech robots, even confined at home.
Isima emerges from stealth with $10 million to apply intelligence to real-time data
Isima, a startup developing a big data analytics platform for enterprise customers, emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.
Syntiant raises $35 million for AI speech-processing edge chips
Syntiant, a startup developing AI and machine learning edge hardware for voice processing, has raised $35 million in venture capital.
Software developers: How plans to automate coding could mean big changes ahead
A team of researchers from MIT and Intel have created an algorithm that can create algorithms. In the long term, that could radically change the role of software developers.
Cloak your photos with this AI privacy tool to fool facial recognition
Facial recognition is becoming ubiquitous, but a new AI tool created by researchers from the University of Chicago could help the privacy-conscious. The tool, named Fawkes, uses AI to "cloak" your selfies, adding a layer of imperceptible changes to the image so that facial recognition algorithms don’t recognize you.
Apple hit with $1.43B Siri patent lawsuit from Chinese AI firm
Shanghai Zhizhen wants Apple to stop selling the voice assistant Siri in China.
Chegg's growth, investments accelerate along with online learning
Chegg is starting to see the benefits of being a platform as students in the US and abroad flock to its digital education content.
Woolworths trials QR code contact tracing to reduce spread of COVID-19
Shoppers can also now book a time to shop using Q-Tracker.
How India Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight COVID-19
Researchers and entrepreneurs in India have derived new solutions to fighting COVID-19 through Artificial Intelligence.
Victoria ditched COVIDSafe app but is using it again
Secretary of the Department of Health Dr Brendan Murphy says the state previously saw no value in it and was under intense pressure due to the surge in cases.