Artificial Intelligence

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• Quick guide to understand the hype around ‘deep learning’

  You’ve probably heard the phrase 'deep learning' bandied about in conversation, or maybe you've read about it in a post like this one. It seems like almost every tech conversation happening today somehow touches on the topic of AI, machine learning, or deep learning. These technologies ...

  • Iskender Dirik

• Academic expert says Google and Facebook's AI researchers aren't doing science

  In the blue corner: Big tech and its billion dollar coffers. In the red corner: Academia and science. Place your bets! Winner ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Fully autonomous trains are better suited for moving ores than people

  Companies and research teams across the world continue to develop driverless cars, trucks, ships and airplanes for passengers. ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• AI is finding out when the person using your account isn't you

  To some, the future of authentication might look a little creepy. But the explosion of data and connectivity will provide ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Experts warn DeepFakes could influence 2020 US election

  We're only a few months away from the November US midterm elections and DeepFakes is poised to pose a major threat in this ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI can kick your ass at all these games

  Since the inception of artificial intelligence in the 1950s, we’ve been trying to find ways to measure progress in the field of AI. For many, the golden criteria for AI the Turing Test, an evaluation of whether a computer can exhibit human behavior. But the Turing Test only defines whether ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook is teaching AI to talk you through directions

  Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) scientists are developing an AI to talk walkers through directions without ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How can we use coding more creatively? Artist and hacker Zach Lieberman will be taking all your questions

  What do computer coding and creating art have in common? Who are the artists who have influenced you most? How ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• IBM is using its AI to predict how employees will perform

  IBM is deploying its Watson AI to help conduct employee performance reviews, by making it predict the how workers will perform ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Nvidia and MIT's AI can clean up your noisy photos

  An AI developed by Nvidia, MIT and Aalto University can go much further - without ever having seen noise-free photographs. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This startup can teach a car how to drive itself in 20 minutes

  Wayve, a startup out of the UK, is revolutionizing the field of autonomous vehicles by eschewing expensive hardware for refined ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI uses sight to isolate the sound of specific instruments

  If you've ever learnt an instrument, straining to hear what your favorite musician is playing under the din of other players ...

  • Callum Booth