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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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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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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 ...
