Towards an AI diagnosis like the doctor's
Artificial intelligence is an important innovation in diagnostics, but the way these systems work is opaque. In a new article, researchers describe how they can make the AI show how it's working, as well as let it diagnose more like a doctor, thus making AI more relevant to clinical practice.
Identifying a melody by studying a musician’s body language
Music gesture artificial intelligence tool developed at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses body movements to isolate the sounds of individual instruments.
Improving global health equity by helping clinics do more with less
The startup macro-eyes uses artificial intelligence to improve vaccine delivery and patient scheduling.
VB Transform 2020, the event for AI decision-makers, to be hosted online with Tame
VentureBeat is excited to announce Tame as the technology platform for VB Transform 2020, our leading digital AI event hosted online July 15-17.
Boston bans facial recognition due to concern about racial bias
The Boston City Council voted unanimously to ban facial recognition use by city officials, making it one of the largest cities in the world to ban the tech.
Stop calling it bias. AI is racist
Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested earlier this year in Detroit, Michigan on suspicion of stealing five watches from a store. Police responding to the scene of the crime were given grainy surveillance footage of what appeared to be a black male absconding with the items.
iOS 14: Our favorite features, plus how to test the beta
Apple has announced iOS 14. It will bring a major refresh to the home screen, minimized call notifications, pinned messages, an enhanced map, and more. Here's our pick of the top features, including how you can get started trying them now.
A Flawed Facial Recognition System Sent This Man to Jail
Robert Williams may be the first person in the US arrested based on a bad match—exposing problems with the algorithms and the ways they are used.
Apple’s Core ML now lets app developers update AI models on the fly
Apple's Core ML can now update AI models without the need to ship an App Store update, while Create ML now has an action classification template.
Intel’s Sample Factory speeds up reinforcement learning training on a single PC
Sample Factory, a new tool from Intel, promises to dramatically speed up reinforcement learning on off-the-shelf hardware.
Sidewalk Labs plans to spin out more smart city companies
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs plans to spin out smart city ideas into separate companies, including mass timber, affordable electrification, and planning tools.
How to Combat the Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Powerful Artificial Intelligence is not something we can afford to get wrong. With the potential for disasterous consequences what can we do to make sure our future is positively effected by AGI?
Autonomous farm robot Burro assists human workers with grape harvest
Burro is an autonomous driving robot that assists farm workers harvesting grapes in California that can augment or replace humans.
ACLU files first formal complaint over wrongful facial recognition arrest
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a formal complaint against Detroit police after facial recognition software led to a wrongful arrest. It’s calling for the absolute dismissal of the case.
Google releases experimental TensorFlow module that tests the privacy of AI models
Google's new toolkit introduces a privacy-preserving technique and test for machine learning modules developed in TensorFlow.
AI supports assembly specialists
Artificial intelligence (AI) enables machines to recognize objects. For this purpose, large amounts of high-quality image data are required to manually train the algorithms. Kimoknow, a startup established at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has now developed a technology to automate this training.
MIT researchers claim augmentation technique can train GANs with less data
MIT researchers propose a new technique -- DiffAugment -- that ostensibly enables the training of state-of-the-art GANs with few images.
Face-scanning 'criminal predictor' sparks bias row
A university that says it can scan faces to predict if someone is a criminal has come under fire.