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Quantum and classical computers handle time differently. What does that mean for AI?
As humans, we take time for granted. We're born into an innate understanding of the passage of events because it's essential to our survival. But AI suffers from no such congenital condition. Robots do not understand the concept of time. State of the art AI systems only understand time as an implicit construct (we program it to output time relevant to a clock) or as an explicit representation of mathematics (we use the time it takes to perform ...
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How this AI-powered auto-completer is helping developers write 25% less code
You might’ve seen people on the internet saying “it’s like my autocomplete gets me.” Indeed, Keyboard protection ...
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iZotope's new RX8 repair tool cleans up your noisy audio with AI
RX8, the latest release from the audio experts at iZotope, today launched with a bevvy of new features and an an updated ...
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AI job listings plummet as COVID-19 recession appears imminent
The last thing we expected to see near the end of 2020 was a truce between human job-seekers and the deep learning systems ...
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Data-informed predictive policing was heralded as less biased. Is it?
When George Floyd was killed in May after a police officer pressed a knee into the man’s neck, millions of Americans ...
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An introduction to one-shot learning
Passport checks at airports and border gates present a special challenge: How do you tell if the person standing in front ...
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Why Elon Musk is wrong about Level 5 self-driving cars
“I’m extremely confident that level 5 [self-driving cars] or essentially complete autonomy will happen, and I think ...
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Horrific AI surveillance experiment uses convicted felons as human guinea pigs
When a convicted felon in the US completes their court-mandated sentence(s) they're considered a free citizen with limited ...
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A beginner's guide to AI: The difference between video game AI and real AI
Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This multi-part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of ...
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AI models need to be 'interpretable' rather than just 'explainable'
Last November, Apple ran into trouble after customers pointed out on Twitter that its credit card service was discriminating ...
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The 6 unholy AI systems thou shalt not develop
Artificial intelligence may be the most powerful tool humans have. When applied properly to a problem suited for it, AI allows ...
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MIT and Microsoft build a new algorithm to find hidden links between historic paintings
If you use Twitter regularly, you must've come across celebrities as food tweet threads. Some examples are Rihanna as Indian ...
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Colonizing our solar system will make our species very hard to eliminate
The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless, if we don’t destroy ourselves first. The same would be true ...
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Facebook issues $100K challenge to build an AI that can identify hateful memes
Memes are now an integral part of how people communicate on the internet. While a lot of these memes have an ability to cheer ...
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This AI system locates drone pilots flying too close to airports
Scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have built an AI tool that finds drone pilots flying dangerously close ...
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What will happen when we reach the AI singularity?
Should you feel bad about pulling the plug on a robot or switch off an artificial intelligence algorithm? Not for the moment. ...
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A beginner’s guide to natural language processing and generation
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. 20 ...
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Artificial vs augmented intelligence: what’s the difference?
Artificial intelligence has accrued some very bad reputation over the years. For some, the term AI has become synonymous ...
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AI could help astronomers unravel the mystery of dark matter
Everything we see in the Universe around us — stars, planets, galaxies, and more — totals less than five percent ...
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How data scientists are linking AI and data analysis to find coronavirus cure
In the last three months, it feels as if all of us have become armchair data scientists. As scientists across the globe race ...
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Here's why computer art will never replace human art
In December 1964, over a single evening session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded the ...
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Dangerous AI algorithms and how to recognize them
When discussing the threats of artificial intelligence, the first thing that comes to mind are images of Skynet, The Matrix, ...
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The advantages of self-explainable AI over interpretable AI
Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm that works eerily well, making accurate decisions 99.9% of the time, ...
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Everything you need to know about recurrent neural networks
The human mind has different mechanisms for processing individual pieces of information and sequences. For instance, we have ...
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This AI tool helps people with speech difficulties to communicate
A new AI tool can help people with speech difficulties to communicate by reducing the number of keystrokes they need to ...
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The key differences between rule-based AI and machine learning
Companies across industries are exploring and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) projects, from big data to robotics, ...
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AI gladiators fight thousands of duels so we can learn how weaponry evolves in nature
Naturally occurring violence in the animal kingdom has fascinated scientists, military strategists, and stoned people watching ...
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The 'dark matter' of visual data can help AI understand images like humans
What makes us humans so good at making sense of visual data? That’s a question that has preoccupied artificial intelligence ...
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Everything you need to know about artificial neural networks
Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. One ...
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Ethical AI and the importance of guidelines for algorithms — explained
In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...
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All you need to know about symbolic artificial intelligence
Today, artificial intelligence is mostly about artificial neural networks and deep learning. But this is not how it always ...
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Here are 5 ways to use AI as a 'bad apple detector' for cops
When an apple begins to rot it creates a chemical called ethylene. If that apple happens to be in a barrel with a bunch ...
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How to detect unwanted bias in machine learning models
In 2016, the World Economic Forum claimed we are experiencing the fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution: automation using ...
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Scientists built an AI to discover new stars in the quest to explain our galaxy's origin
Researchers have used AI system to spot thousands of new stars that could hold clues about the formation of the galaxy
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Why were the NBA and Walmart using Clearview AI?
A leaked list of Clearview clients shows the facial recognition software has spread beyond law enforcement into companies ...
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How Baidu's AI produces news videos using just a URL
AI for news production is one of the areas that has drawn contrasting opinions. On one hand, it might help media houses produce ...
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The invisible labor powering Silicon Valley — and the ethics behind 'ghost work'
TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions ...
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Sony patents AI soundtrack generator that adapts game music to your emotions
Sony has filed a patent for an AI soundtrack generator that matches music to emotions. Could it be a new feature in the ...
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Everything you need to know about neuromorphic computing
In July, a group of artificial intelligence researchers showcased a self-driving bicycle that could navigate around obstacles, ...
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This free AI chatbot helps businesses fight COVID-19 misinformation
Avaamo, a company that specializes in conversational AI, recently built a virtual assistant to translate natural language ...
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Stanford uses AI scans of satellite images to track poverty levels over time
A new AI tool can track poverty levels in African villages over time by scanning satellite images for signs of economic ...
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Algorithms associating appearance with criminality have a dark past
‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting ...
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Google says it won't build new AI solutions for the fossil fuel industry
File this under: minimal possible effort. Google today confirmed it will “no longer develop artificial intelligence (AI) ...
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China’s latest AI news anchor mimics human voices and gestures in 3D
Chinese state news agency Xinhua has added a 3D AI news anchor called Xin Xiaowei to its growing lineup of virtual presenters ...
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Ben Goertzel: I'm just another neuron in the goddamn global brain
Ben Goertzel, the author of this piece, is hosting a TNW Answers session today at 7:00pm CEST — 1:00pm EDT — 10:00am ...
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Microsoft just built 'one of the top five most powerful' supercomputers on the planet
Microsoft has announced a new supercomputer built by the company in partnership with and for OpenAI to train large-scale ...
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Everything you need to know about artificial general intelligence
Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. From ...
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This hybrid AI system can understand causality in controlled environments
Look at the short video below. Can you answer the following questions: Which object caused the ball to change direction? ...
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Microsoft's new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft's AI team today unveiled a 'Smart To-Do' tool for automatically ...
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This AI makes up words you won't even find in the dictionary
Forget about getting your vocabulary from boring dictionaries and brush up your lexicon with some AI-generated words you've ...
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Facebook's head of AI thinks Elon musk has 'no idea what he's talking about' — and he's not alone
Elon Musk is a prominent figure in the AI community, but a lot of experts don't see eye to eye with him. Today, ...
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This AI will judge you for eating microwave meals
MIT CSAIL has created an AI system called Sapple that uses motion sensors and smart energy meters to work out how you're ...
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Using 'personalized AI' to end coronavirus lockdown is a stupid, cruel idea
A trio of AI and business experts from INSEAD, a prestigious business school, recently penned a lengthy article in the Harvard ...
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Cheat sheet: A comprehensive guide to AI terminology
Artificial intelligence as a discipline consists of hundreds of individual technologies, concepts, and applications. These ...
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AI is great news for digital marketers who are bored of being data drones
For the last 15 years, marketers have been told to lead with data, to become more like machines. Now there’s a new mandate ...
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How quantum computers can save us from the coronavirus
A team of researchers at Penn State University recently began exploring high-powered solutions for drug discovery in hopes ...
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Scientists found a way to plug adversarial backdoors in deep learning models
Imagine a high-security complex protected by a facial recognition system powered by deep learning. The artificial intelligence ...
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This AI creates entire songs complete with music, lyrics, and vocals
OpenAI today introduced 'Jukebox,' an open-source AI system for generating novel music complete with lyrics and vocals. Simply ...
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AI model predicts the coronavirus pandemic will end in December
Data scientists have attempted to answer the question on everyone's mind: When will the COVID-19 pandemic end?
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Scientists think we'll finally solve nuclear fusion thanks to cutting-edge AI
Scientists believe the world will see it's first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That's a tall order ...
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How deep learning can improve how we conduct scientific research
Whether we take it for granted or not, deep learning algorithms have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. Personalized ...
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AI can tackle the climate emergency — if developed responsibly
Our planet is altering at a dangerous pace due to climate change. And at the same time, we seem to be entering a period of ...
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Researchers claim this AI model achieves better compression rates than PNGs
Image compression has been one of the constantly evolving challenges in computer science. Programers and researchers are ...
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Google Meet challenges Zoom with AI noise and lighting enhancements
Last week, Google told Reuters it would allow up to 16 participants to be visible in a single grid, replicating one of Zoom's ...
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New AI algorithm brings us closer than ever to controlling machines with our minds
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh today published research showing how they'd solved a frustrating ...
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AI, you have some explaining to do
You never know what goes on behind closed doors. When it comes to your next-door neighbors, maybe it’s better that way. ...
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Conversational AI might be key to informing citizens about COVID-19
The bandwidth and effectiveness of global health organizations have been put to the test amidst the spread of the novel coronavirus ...
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Will product designers survive the AI revolution?
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the ...
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Someone trained an AI on BDSM literature so it could remix the King James Bible
Do robots go to hell? An AI developer recently created a remix of the Holy Bible (King James version) by training a text ...
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AI can’t predict a child’s future success, no matter how much data we give it
A trio of Princeton social scientists recently conducted a mass experiment with 160 research teams to see if any of them ...
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Self-supervised learning is the future of AI
Despite the huge contributions of deep learning to the field of artificial intelligence, there’s something very wrong with ...
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Scientists are using AI to predict which coronavirus patients need ventilators
Computer scientists from the University of Copenhagen are using AI to calculate which coronavirus patients will need ventilators ...
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We asked a computational poet if machines will ever replace human writers
Nick Montfort, a computational poet and an author of interactive fiction, hosted a TNW Answers session where he spoke about ...
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What winemaking has taught me about artificial intelligence
As an AI entrepreneur and an avid amateur winemaker, I sometimes find myself musing about how my two passions relate to each ...
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Human Compatible: A timely warning on the future of AI
The late Stephen Hawking called artificial intelligence the biggest threat to humanity. But Hawking, albeit a revered physicist, ...
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AI-powered smart glasses are finding people with coronavirus in China
Security officers in China are wearing AI-powered smart glasses to find people with a fever, one of the main symptoms of ...
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Darktrace's co-CEO on trusting AI to fight cyberattacks on our behalf
Darktrace had to take customers on a journey to help them trust algorithms in the fight against cyber attacks, the company's ...
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Why AI might be the most effective weapon we have to fight COVID-19
If not the most deadly, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most contagious diseases to have hit our green planet ...
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This AI system predicts air pollution before it happens
Computer scientists from Loughborough University in the UK have developed a new AI system that predicts air pollution levels ...
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Hybrid AI systems are quietly solving the problems of deep learning
Deep learning, the main innovation that has renewed interest in artificial intelligence in the past years, has helped solve ...
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How Chinese tech giants are assisting in the battle against coronavirus with AI
The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China late last year, has become a global health hazard. Last month, the World ...
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AI sent first coronavirus alert, but underestimated the danger
Research suggests that an AI system sent out the first global coronavirus alert but only humans recognized the scale of the ...
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We should treat AI like our own children — so it won't kill us
Are you ready for Skynet? How about the Holodeck-meets-Skynet universe of Westworld (returning March 15 to HBO)? What about ...
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How a budget AI camera is helping smaller football clubs record matches
Smartphone cameras have become really good at recording video, but you can’t expect someone to hold a phone for 90 minutes, ...
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The US Navy is developing AI-powered submarines that could kill autonomously
The US Navy is developing an AI-controlled submarine called CLAWS with the ability to kill without human control. It could ...
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Why we need more women to build real-world AI products, explained by science
Did you know the TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring the latest work culture trends and the future ...
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How designers could help free AI systems from gender and ethnicity biases
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full 'Sprint' ...
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The case for an AI that puts nature and ethics first, not humans
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks ...
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Scientists figured out how to fool state-of-the-art Deepfake detectors
A team of researchers from UC San Diego recently came up with a relatively simple method for convincing fake video-detectors ...
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How Facebook's new AI system has deactivated billions of fake accounts
Facebook has unveiled a new machine learning model called DEC that has already detected hundreds of millions of fake accounts ...
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Google algorithm teaches robot how to walk in mere hours
A new Google robot has overcome one of the fundamental challenges of locomotion by teaching itself how to walk
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Here's how AI can help you sleep
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has joined the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine and a range of startups ...
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Vatican's AI ethics plan lacks the legal restrictions it needs to be effective
Microsoft and IBM have added a divine touch to their AI ethics efforts by signing a new pledge endorsed by his holiness ...
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Alphabet's AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives
Google parent company Alphabet has launched Tidal, a project that uses underwater cameras connected to computer vision software ...
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Emerging tech will enhance your kid’s education — but not their creativity
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks ...
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You can now post Facebook's trippy 3D photos without Portrait mode
Facebook's trippy 3D photos are about to become much more accessible. The company first introduced the feature back in 2018, ...
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AI will dominate the 2020s — governments must ensure it's ethical
Isaac Asimov, roboticist and science fiction writer, predicted in his novel I, Robot in 1950 that robots and artificial ...
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Eric Schmidt says big tech needs government help to keep up with China
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants the US government to "get back in the game in a serious way" so that the country can ...
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Robot uses AI to personalize teaching of autistic children
Researchers have developed a robot that provides personalized learning to autistic children by using machine learning to ...
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Deep learning advances are boosting computer vision — but there's still clear limits
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Since ...
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Scientists propose new regulatory framework to make AI safer
Imperial College London scientists have proposed a new regulatory framework for AI called the Human Impact Assessment for ...
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AI-penned manga Paidon to be published this week
A new manga called Paidon that was created by AI and drawn by a robotic hand will be published in this week's edition of ...
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This AI needs your help to identify child abusers by their hands
Scientists are developing an AI hand recognition system that can help police and juries identify child abusers just by analyzing ...
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AI Now: Predictive policing systems are flawed because they replicate and amplify racism
The AI Now Institute's Executive Director, Andrea Nill Sánchez, today testified before the European Parliament LIBE Committee ...
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New AI-powered sensor can predict heart failure days before it happens
A new wearable sensor could predict heart failure days before it leads to hospitalization by using AI to spot changes in ...
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Defining humanlike intelligence and entrusting it with our lives, explained by an AI researcher
Yesterday, Melanie Mitchell, the author of ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans,' hosted a TNW Answers ...
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AI helps eliminate radiation exposure in breast cancer screening
A new system that using sensors and AI helps eliminate radiation exposure in breast cancer screening by quickly detect tumors ...
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The future of AI journalism is less hyperbole and smarter readers
Today we launched Neural, our new home for human-centric AI news and analysis. While we're celebrating the culmination of ...
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New algorithm for self-driving vehicles has a bold 'collision-free guarantee'
Northwestern University researchers have developed an algorithm for self-driving vehicles that stops them from getting in ...
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Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war
The Pentagon has unveiled five ethical principles for the use of AI by the US military, but the ambiguous guidelines won't ...
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Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov predicts AI will disrupt 96% of all jobs
IBM's Deep Blue wasn't supposed to defeat Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov when the two of them had their 1997 rematch. Computer ...
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UK police are using AI to predict who could become violent criminals
Police in the UK are using AI to predict who could become violent criminals in a pilot of a system that the government plans ...
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3 ways AI is transforming the insurance industry
As AI, big data, and the internet of things (IoT) find their way into every aspect of our lives, many industries are undergoing ...
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This AI suitcase could help visually-impaired people to travel
A group of Japanese companies is developing a suitcase-shaped robot that uses AI to help visually-impaired people to travel ...
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Leak shows EU police aim to create an international facial recognition database
EU police forces plan to build a network of national police facial recognition database that spans across every member state ...
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Digital transformation projects don't fail because of a shortage of 'tech'
Trying to implement digital transformation at your company? Then you need to focus on people and processes, just as much ...
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Human emotions must adapt to thrive in the machine age
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks ...
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UN will use AI to learn what people want from peace deals
The UN will help people in warzones to influence peace deals through an AI conversation tool they can access through their ...
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Google drops gender labels from image recognition to reduce bias
Google will no longer identify people by gender in its image recognition AI, by removing labels such as "man" and "woman" ...
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Algorithm blocks human rights investigator from entering US
Eyal Weizman, the director of investigative group Forensic Architecture was told he couldn't travel to the US because an algorithm ...
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JPEG committee is banking on AI to build its next image codec
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a committee that maintains various JPEG image-related standards, has started exploring ...
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MIT algorithm discovers antibiotic that can fight drug-resistant diseases
A deep learning algorithm has discovered new antibiotics that can treat drug-resistant diseases by killing 35 powerful bacteria ...
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Study: AI expert Gary Marcus explains how to take AI to 'the next level'
The field of AI, especially in the realm of deep learning, is at an inflection point. We're either going to break on through ...
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UK plan to replace migrant carers with automation branded 'ridiculous'
The UK's government's plan to replace migrant care workers with automation has been slammed as "ridiculous" by one of the ...
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Some Teslas have been tricked into speeding by tape stuck on road signs
McAfee researchers have tricked Tesla cars into autonomously speeding just by sticking two inches tape on a speed limit ...
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Why AI systems should be recognized as inventors
The Artificial Inventor Project team has filed patent applications that list AI systems as inventors - the first such IP ...
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Elon Musk: Everyone developing AI must be regulated — even Tesla
Musk believes OpenAI "should be more open" and that everyone developing AI should be regulated. But Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg ...
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New artificial evolution research could finally prove Darwin was right
An international team of researchers may have just figured out why single-celled organisms such as the AIDS virus and cancer ...
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OpenAI’s flagging techno-utopianianism exposes tensions between business and public benefits
OpenAI bold ambition to build an AGI for humanity is explained in a company charter that has taken on an almost biblical ...
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US Army plans to bring human-AI interaction to the battlefield
The Aided Threat Recognition from Mobile Cooperative and Autonomous Sensors (ATR-MCAS) will act as a 'teammate' to soldiers ...
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This AI could reunite families after an earthquake
The AI tool could transform how earthquake aftermaths are managed, by predicting the safest routes that families can take ...
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Gamers will teach AI how to control military drone swarms
Scientists from the University of Buffalo's Artificial Intelligence Institute will study the decisions people make while ...
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Automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, says EU digital chief
The EU’s digital and competition chief has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as it doesn't gain consent ...
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AI interviewer asks Billie Eilish the weirdest questions
Billie Eilish sat down with the AI interviewer in a video for Vogue - and the bot proved a more original interlocutor than ...
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Scientist trains AI to write messages of love on candy hearts
Janelle Shane marked Valentine's Day by teaching an AI to write messages for candy hearts after training the neural network ...
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This AI can perfectly dub videos in Indic languages -- and correct lip syncing
Resarchers from an Indian university have developed an AI model for face-to-face translation in Indic languages.
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'Sensorized' skin helps robots understand where the hell they are
The MIT system uses a 'sensorized' skin to give soft robots a greater awareness of their movements and the position of their ...
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US senators propose facial recognition ban (but not for police)
US senators have introduced a bill that would temporarily restrict the use of facial recognition technology -- but their ...
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New Zealand's first AI police officer reports for duty
Ella is a life-like virtual assistant who uses real-time animation to emulate face-to-face interaction in an empathetic ...
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This neural network accurately predicts extreme weather events
Weather forecasters could use the Rice University capsule neural network method as an early warning system
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Scientists built an AI to figure out what the universe is made of
A multi-university team of researchers from Japan recently used the world's fastest astrophysics-simulation supercomputers ...
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Watch: AI developer upscales famous 1895 train scene to 4K at 60 FPS
A developer and YouTuber named Denis Shiryaev recently used “several neural networks” to update a famous French short ...
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This new AI model will badmouth you for putting trash in the wrong bin
When I'm at airports, I often get confused as to which trash and recycling bin I should throw my rubbish into. A new solution ...
