Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
Users of the homepages of the MSN website and Edge browser will now see news stories generated by AI
AI Can Help Tackle Fraud
Applications of AI are showing to have social benefits as well, for example in tackling fraud.
AI Startup Accern Raises $13 Million To Help Enterprises Adopt AI More Easily
Despite an ever growing competitive industry Kumesh Aroomoogan and Anshul Vikram Pandey were able to create a successful AI tool that has a drastic impact on the mundane activites employees have to do as part of their job , and are now increasing th
New AI technique speeds up language models on edge devices
In a research paper, scientists propose a technique -- Hardware-Aware Transformers (HAT) -- that finds Transformer-based models optimized for edge devices.
OpenAI and Uber create Virtual Petri Dish to find the best AI model for a task
Researchers at OpenAI and Uber propose Synthetic Petri Dish, a highly efficient technique for finding optimal AI architectures.
AI Weekly: Autonomous vehicle companies pivot to charitable deliveries during the pandemic
During the pandemic, autonomous vehicles companies like Beep, Gatik, and Optimus Ride are helping to deliver goods to those in need.
Amazon discontinues the Echo Look and migrates AI style recommendations to other apps and devices
Amazon has discontinued the Alexa-powered Echo Look as it migrates the connected camera's key features to other apps and devices.
Social distancing: Google's new tool lets you see a two metre gap with AR
The experimental feature creates a two-metre bubble displayed on top of your real environment.
OpenAI debuts gigantic GPT-3 language model with 175 billion parameters
OpenAI's GPT-3 language model can generate convincing news articles and achieve state-of-the-art results on a range of NLP tasks with few-shot learning.
Contact-tracing app: How much difference will it really make?
After a much-hype debut, the excitement around the UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app has dipped. What happened?
How the world's largest and fastest supercomputers are being used to understand the coronavirus
The UK is the first country outside the US to join the COVID-19 High Performance Computing consortium, which provides access to the world's fastest supercomputers for work on tackling the pandemic.
ACLU sues Clearview AI calling it a ‘nightmare scenario’ for privacy
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing controversial facial recognition provider Clearview AI over privacy concerns.
OpenAI’s new text generator writes sad poems and corrects lousy grammar
OpenAI has quietly unveiled GPT-3, the latest incarnation of its headline-grabbing text generator, which comes with an enormous 175 billion parameters
A Zen Buddhist monk's approach to democratizing AI
Colin Garvey, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), took an unusual path to his studies in the social science of technology.
Automatic refill: Driverless prescription delivery is here
Coming off pandemic, health is a growth sector for robots.
US joins G7 artificial intelligence group to counter China
US involvement is important because of the large role that American tech firms play globally and its historic advocacy for human rights, said Kay Mathiesen, an associate professor focused on computer ethics at Northeastern University in Boston.
Walmart Employees Are Out to Show Its Anti-Shoplifting AI Doesn't Work
The retailer denies there is any widespread issue with the software, but a group expressed frustration—and public health concerns.
AU$721 million in robo-debts to be returned as Australian government admits error
Services Australia has identified 470,000 debts raised wholly or partially using income averaging of ATO data.