All stories by Ben
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Forget coding, you can now solve your AI problems with Excel
Machine learning and deep learning have become an important part of many applications we use every day. There are few domains ...
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How PR people should (not) pitch AI projects
These are exciting times for the artificial intelligence community. Interest in the field is growing at an accelerating ...
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DeepMind’s mounting losses show why it’s hard to run an AI research lab
Last week, on the heels of DeepMind’s breakthrough in using artificial intelligence to predict protein folding came the ...
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Apple's self-driving car plans could change the entire company
What would an Apple-made self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious ...
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Adversarial attacks are a ticking time bomb, but no one cares
If you’ve been following news about artificial intelligence, you’ve probably heard of or seen modified images of pandas ...
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Don't dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches
This year, NetGalley, the website that provides advanced e-copies of books to reviewers, sent its season’s greetings ...
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How AI weeds the spam out of our inboxes
Of more than 300 billion emails sent every day, at least half are spam. Email providers have the huge task of filtering ...
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What the hell is an AI factory?
If you follow the news on artificial intelligence, you’ll find two diverging threads. The media and cinema often portray ...
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How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data
In the past few years, researchers have shown growing interest in the security of artificial intelligence systems. There’s a special interest in how malicious actors can attack and compromise machine learning algorithms, the subset of AI that is being increasingly used in different ...
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Here’s how neuroscience can protect AI from cyberattacks
Deep learning has come a long way since the days it could only recognize hand-written characters on checks and envelopes. ...
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How banks use AI to catch criminals and detect bias
Imagine an algorithm that reviews thousands of financial transactions every second and flags the fraudulent ones. This is ...
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These new metrics help grade AI models' trustworthiness
Whether it’s diagnosing patients or driving cars, we want to know whether we can trust a person before assigning them a ...