Ben Dickson

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• Artificial intelligence: How to measure the 'I' in AI

  Last week, Lee Se-dol, the South Korean Go champion who lost in a historical matchup against DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm AlphaGo in 2016, declared his retirement from professional play. “With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realized that I’m not at ...

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• 8 biggest AI trends of 2020, according to experts

  Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest moving and least predictable industries. Just think about all the things that ...

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• The pros and cons of how Google Chrome encrypts DNS activity

  Thanks to the expansion of HTTPS, the secure version of the original HTTP protocol, most internet traffic is encrypted today, ...

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• How the 'bigger is better' mentality is damaging AI research

  Something you’ll hear a lot is that the increasing availability of computing resources has paved the way for important ...

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• Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode

  Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy ...

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• Here’s how you make your Google Docs secure

  Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other ...

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• This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really 'learning' science?

  Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that ...

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• AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have

  Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often ...

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• Hype is killing AI – here’s how we can stop it

  Mystified and vilified at the same time. That’s how I would currently describe “artificial intelligence,” one of the ...

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• We might never achieve general AIs — but it's important that we try

  There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to ...

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• Why Alexa and Siri won't function as robot helpers

  “Alexa, are you ready to have a body?” Steady advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have ...

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• Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived

  For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...

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