The key differences between rule-based AI and machine learning
Companies across industries are exploring and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) projects, from big data to robotics, to automate business processes, improve customer experience, and innovate product development. According to McKinsey, “embracing AI promises considerable benefits for businesses and economies through its contributions to productivity and growth.
How AI Will Transform Healthcare In Developing Regions
Read on to discover how applications designed for emerging economies could be key in narrowing the growing gap in the quality of healthcare that is forming between the richer and poorer regions of the planet - through the magic of AI.
How AI Could change Finance
AI could change the finance industry - from tackling fraud to targeted marketing.
AI Weekly: AI phrenology is racist nonsense, so of course it doesn’t work
Researchers torched studies that claim to be able to determine a person's criminality using facial recognition technology.
Researchers train drones to perform flips, rolls, and loops with AI
In a preprint paper, researchers propose a technique for training autonomous drones to perform flips, rolls, and other challenging acrobatics.
Elon Musk-backed OpenAI to release text tool it called dangerous
The API gives firms access to a text generation AI for use in coding and dating entry
Drone companies abdicate responsibility in selling to law enforcement
Drone manufacturers, suppliers, and providers sell drones to law enforcement without restrictions on the drones' usage. But should they?
This AI turns your blurry photos into creepy HD faces
Duke University researchers have inventioned an AI tool that turns blurry photos into computer-generated HD faces. I tried it out
ProBeat: The question of cloud AI or edge AI is far from settled
It's too early to say whether Google's cloud solution or Microsoft's edge solution is the superior approach to noise cancellation.
Researchers propose framework to measure AI’s social and environmental impact
Researchers propose a framework -- SECure -- designed to measure the social and environmental impact of AI systems in the real world.
Firm defends algorithm which 'spots women's orgasms'
The Cypress-based company said its intention was to help developers of sex tech.
Facebook contest reveals deepfake detection is still an ‘unsolved problem’
Facebook says deepfakes are not a "big issue" for the platform, but it wants to be prepared all the same. It created a competition to find algorithms that could detect the AI-manipulated videos. In real-world tests, though, the algorithms’ highest accuracy rates were only around 65 percent, showing much work is still needed.
Facebook detection challenge winners spot deepfakes with 82% accuracy
The top-performing AI model from Facebook's deepfake detection challenge can pick out distorted videos with 82% accuracy.
Contact-tracing apps might not work in some busy city environments
The Bluetooth-based app might send false positives to residents living in crowded tower blocks.
Researchers find racial discrimination in ‘dynamic pricing’ algorithms used by Uber, Lyft, and others
A preprint study shows ride-hailing services like Uber, Lyft, and Via charge higher prices in certain neighborhoods based on racial and other biases.
Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper
Duke University researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people's faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before.
Artificial Intelligence Turns Blurry Pixelated Photos Into Hyper-Realistic Portraits – Try It Yourself
This AI turns even the blurriest photo into realistic computer-generated faces in HD. Duke University researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people’s faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before.
Best Father's Day gifts in 2020: A budget, DIYers dream list of gadgets and gizmos for Dad
With nothing on this list more than $150, and many items available for $10 or less, this is a great list of unexpected gifts that Dad is sure to love.