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,
AI: The Ghost-writer From the Future
What if AI could write your essay for you? Research a topic? What if AI could write my next article? Introducing GPT-2…
CVPR challenge pushes researchers to improve car accident detection AI
The AI City Challenge attracted AI researchers from 30+ countries in a competition for tasks like spotting car accidents or stalled cars on highways.
AI Weekly: Restricting surveillance technologies is a strong first step, but it’s not enough
New laws and regulations are curbing law enforcement's use of surveillance technologies, but that might not be enough.
Contact-tracing app: How did the UK go so badly wrong?
The UK government has just U-turned on its own plans for a contact-tracing app after months of development. This is what went wrong.
Baidu ends participation in AI alliance as US-China relations deteriorate
Baidu will no longer participate in the Partnership on AI (PAI) alliance amid deteriorating relations between the US and China.
OpenAI releases powerful text generator
Artificial intelligence laboratory OpenAI announced it is making a powerful new neural network for natural language processing available for limited release to the public.
New App Predicts Severity of COVID-19
An app trained by computer algorithms uses biomarkers to determine the severity level of a patient afflicted with COVID-19..
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.