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Scientists invent robot that climbs surfaces like Spider-Man
A pair of researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a device that allows humans or robots to scale walls ...
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Sundar Pichai offers a cryptic warning against over-regulating AI
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, wants the world's governments to regulate artificial intelligence. As TNW's Ivan Mehta wrote earlier today, the big tech boss published an opinion piece in the Financial Times over the weekend where he says: Now there ...
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Sundar Pichai says AI should be regulated, asks governments to step up
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times today outlining the need for regulating AI. Pichai highlighted that deepfakes and “repressive uses of facial recognition” are of great concern at the moment. He added companies like Google can't just ...
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The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you've never heard of
The NYT published an eye-opening piece detailing a relatively unknown firm offering facial recognition services to roughly ...
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Why using AI to screen job applicants is almost always a bunch of crap
Millions of potential employees are subjected to artificial intelligence screenings during the hiring process every month. While some systems make it easier to weed out candidates who lack necessary educational or work qualifications, many AI hiring solutions are nothing more than ...
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Google's new AI language model can comprehend entire books
One of the prime challenges of a language-based AI model is to understand the context of the surrounding content. To solve this problem, Google has introduced a new model called Reformer, which understands the context of 1 million lines using just 16GB space. The company built ...
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Shanghai is testing facial recognition at pharmacies to catch drug abusers
Every few days, China finds a new way to introduce facial recognition in people's daily lives. According to a report from the South China Morning Post, Shanghai is testing face recognition terminals at pharmacies to catch folks attempting to buy controlled substances in substantial ...
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AlphaZero beat humans at Chess and StarCraft, now it's working with quantum computers
A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing optimization problems and, much to everyone's surprise, the AI was able to solve the problems without any outside expert knowledge. Not bad for a machine learning ...
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Apple reportedly acquires Xnor.ai to boost on-device AI
Did you know that, according to CEO Tim Cook, Apple acquires a company every two to three weeks? It's just added another ...
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Scientists used stem cells to create a new life-form: Organic robots
Straight out of the 1990s and the plot of Jurassic Park, a team of scientists have successfully created an entirely new life-form ...
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Elon Musk says Tesla's early access group will get Full Self Driving 'soon'
Elon Musk is tweeting about Full Self Driving again. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1216030166733901826 Full Self ...
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Trump's chief technology officer is treating AI regulation like the net neutrality repeal
Did you ever notice how the Trump administration's chief science and technology officer Michael Kratsios never talks while ...
