Victoria Police emails reveal Clearview AI's dodgy direct marketing
Why bother with messy official approvals, tedious legal and privacy assessments, or even ethics when cops use facial recognition? 'Feel free to run wild with your searches,' says Clearview.
Waymo and Uber propose AI techniques to improve self-driving systems
At CVPR 2020, Waymo and Uber researchers presented new techniques to improve the reliability -- and safety -- of their self-driving systems.
CSIRO's Data61 develops voice detection technique to prevent voice spoofing attacks
Void can detect the 'liveness' of a voice.
European Football Clubs Are Turning to AI for an Assist
Software company Acronis has been storing the data of the best and brightest teams. Now, it wants to use that to help them win games.
Luxury Fashion and AI: Burberry setting the trend
In the world of luxury fashion, companies aim to be trendsetters rather than trend-followers. You wouldn’t normally associate Burberry with being an AI pioneer but using Big Data and Machine Learning, Burberry are increasing customer satisfaction and
Google will shut down its AI-guided Photos printing service on June 30th
Google is ending its AI-guided Photos printing trial service on June 30th, but it might lead to a similar feature in the long run.
How algorithms are designing better buildings
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Thanks to computer-aided design (CAD), architects were abl
Robots Now Have Chameleon Skin?
UC Riverside scientists have engineered a new nanomaterial that gives robots chameleon skin. The film of gold nanoparticles changes colour in response to any type of movement and allows the robot to mimic a chameleons’ colour-changing abilities.
Coronavirus will finally give artificial intelligence its moment
Pandemic lockdowns have affected consumer behavior in ways that will spur AIs growth and development. As consumers buy more online to avoid the new risks of shopping in stores, they are giving sellers more data on preferences and shopping habits.
How machine learning is changing your smartphone camera
See how the use of computational photography technology enhances your smartphone camera to give you the best photos.
Dangerous AI algorithms and how to recognize them
When discussing the threats of artificial intelligence, the first thing that comes to mind are images of Skynet, The Matrix, and the robot apocalypse. The runner up is technological unemployment, the vision of a foreseeable future in which AI algorit
Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip for Portable AI Devices
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors — silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain.
Google’s Duplex is calling businesses to check the availability of ‘critical products’ like toilet paper
Google has begun using Duplex to contact convenience stores about the availability of certain items, including toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
Black roboticists on racism, bias, and building better AI
Black roboticists on creating better AI, accountability, addressing bias, and how to make a more diverse world in acadamia, tech, and STEM education.
Accelerate digital transformation with the right strategic partner
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across industries. Selecting the right partners will not only help firms execute their transformation agenda -- they'll also help shape the right agenda and prioritize initiatives based on their most immediate business impact.
How quantum computers could make future humans immortal
As best we can guess, life started on planet Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. Unfortunately, so did death. And the reaper remains undefeated. About 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. There’s almost no scientific reason to believe humans won’t join them in a relatively insignificant amount of time.
Engineers Design Ion-Based Device That Operates Like an Energy-Efficient Brain Synapse
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems. Teams around the world are building ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence systems of a type called neural networks,