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.
CSIRO to spend up to AU$7 million annually through new procurement portal
The eProcurement Portal will be used to procure network, unified communications, cybersecurity, and data centre hardware, software, and services for the next five years.
Flights will be at pre-Covid levels by Diwali: Hardeep Singh Puri, aviation minister
Aviation minister says sector will recover quickly as the country has a huge captive market.
Detection of air and surface contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in hospital rooms of infected patients
Here, the authors sample air and surfaces in hospital rooms of COVID-19 patients, detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in air samples of two of three tested airborne infection isolation rooms, and find surface contamination in 66.7% of tested rooms during the first week of illness and 20% beyond the first week of illness.
Predictive biology: modelling, understanding and harnessing microbial complexity
In this Review, Lopatkin and Collins discuss key areas of predictive biology that are of growing interest to microbiology, the challenges associated with the innate complexity of microorganisms and the value of quantitative methods in making microbiology more predictable.
Google cautions EU on AI rule-making
Google warned on Thursday that the EU's definition of artificial intelligence was too broad and that Brussels must refrain from over-regulating a crucial technology.
AI That Can Detect Skin Cancer
Melanoma skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the UK. According to Cancer Research UK, there are around 16,200 cases each year and since the early 1990s, skin cancer incidence rates have more than doubled. Before the situation bec
ACLU sues facial recognition startup Clearview AI for privacy and safety violations
The ACLU claims Clearview AI "will end privacy as we know it if it isn't stopped" and calls the startup a threat to safety.