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• Eureka: A family of computer scientists developed a blueprint for machine consciousness

  Renowned researchers Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum have devoted their entire lives to the study of computer science with a particular focus on consciousness. They've authored dozens of papers and taught for decades at prestigious Carnegie Mellon University. And, just recently, they published new research that could serve as a blueprint for developing and demonstrating machine consciousness. That paper, titled “A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI is unimpressed by Gillian Anderson's casting in The Crown

  An AI scoring system designed by Largo Films has predicted which stars of The Crown will shine — and which will fade into ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Neural's guide to the glorious future of AI: Here's how machines become sentient

  Welcome to Neural's guide to the glorious future of AI. What wonders will tomorrow's machines be capable of? How do we get ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google's new AI tool turns your terrible drawings into hideous monsters

  The Chimera Painter app uses GANs to convert sketches of animals into fantastical creatures.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers developed 'explainable' AI to help diagnose and treat at-risk children

  A pair of researchers from the Oak Ridge Laboratory have developed an “explainable” AI system designed to aid medical ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19

  A new study found a medication identified as a potential COVID-19 treatment reduced deaths by 71% in elderly patients with ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Neural's market outlook for artificial intelligence in 2021 and beyond

  The year is coming to a close and it's safe to say Elon Musk's prediction that his company would field one million “robotaxis” ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What to check about a Python machine learning book before buying it

  With so many books on Python machine learning, making a choice is becoming increasingly difficult. You’re investing both ...

  • Ben Dickson

• MIT AI analysis of Reddit shows anxiety levels are sky-high since pandemic

  The first wave of COVID-19 increased discussions about anxiety and suicide on Reddit, according to a new study by MIT and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to protect your AI systems against adversarial machine learning

  With machine learning becoming increasingly popular, one thing that has been worrying experts is the security threats the ...

  • Ben Dickson

• My failed startup: Lessons I learned by not becoming a millionaire

  Let's start with the one minute version: I was part of the EF12 London cohort in 2019, where I met my co-founder. Together, ...

  • Daniel Homola

• What the hell is reinforcement learning and how does it work?

  Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning. It enables an agent to learn through the consequences of actions ...

  • Jair Ribeiro

• Microsoft unveils FREE app to create AI models without writing any code

  Microsoft has released a public preview of an app called Lobe that lets people with no data science experience create AI ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New AI tool that detects star flares could help us find habitable planets

  Scientists have developed a neural network that finds stellar flares, which can destroy the atmospheres of nearby planets. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How I passed the TensorFlow Developer Certification Exam

  At the start of May, I decided to get TensorFlow Developer Certified. So I set myself up with a curriculum to sharpen ...

  • Daniel Bourke

• What exactly is an algorithm and how does it work?

  The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. ...

  • The Conversation

• All the new AI-powered features Adobe announced for its creative suite

  Adobe is holding its virtual conference, Max, today, and it has announced a ton of updates to its products, from Photoshop ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Learn Python machine learning with these essential books and online courses

  Teaching yourself Python machine learning can be a daunting task if you don’t know where to start. Fortunately, there ...

  • Ben Dickson

• How I'd study machine learning — if I'd be starting out today

  I’m underground, back where it all started. Sitting at the hidden cafe where I first met Mike. I’d been studying in ...

  • Daniel Bourke

• How to build a machine learning model in 10 minutes

  I like to divide my machine learning education into two eras: I spent the first era learning how to build models with ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• AI discovers that every lion has a unique and trackable roar

  Oxford University scientists used an algorithm to match recordings of roars to individual lions. The system could help track ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Video: Here’s everything you need to know about Huawei’s latest software announcements

  If you’re a developer, there’s no doubt you’ve heard of Huawei’s annual Developer Conference (HDC). This year’s ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Alphabet X has built a ‘plant buggy’ — a cute AI farmer

  The crop-inspecting robot is part of a new Alphabet X "computational agriculture" project called Mineral.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Microsoft unveils efforts to make AI more accessible to people with disabilities

  Microsoft has announced a series of new efforts to make AI systems more useful for people with disabilities by developing ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Study reveals big regional divides in views on AI risks

  New research on opinions about using AI in decision-making suggests concerns are highest in Latin America and the Caribbean ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• These AI-generated resumes will make your job search even more painful

  A new website uses machine learning to produce fake resumes that could get you the job of your nightmares.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• TIL: Dubai uses AI to plan its bus routes

  This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...

  • Cities Today

• How ‘less-than-one-shot learning’ could open up new venues for machine learning research

  If I told you to imagine something between a horse and a bird—say, a flying horse—would you need to see a concrete example? ...

  • Ben Dickson

• A beginner's guide to the math that powers machine learning

  How much math knowledge do you need for machine learning and deep learning? Some people say not much. Others say a lot. Both ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Test your Python skills with these 10 projects

  Did you know Python is known as an all-rounder programming language? Yes, it is, though it shouldn’t be used on every ...

  • Live Code Stream

• Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead

  Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter's image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Photos' new AI-powered editor will retouch your images for you

  In addition to the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G, Google is also rolling out a new editor for Google Photos that leverages AI to beautify ...

  • Mix

• Why AI writing assistants are the next generation of style guides

  So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. Style guides have a long ...

  • Jennifer Schmich

• YouTube's new AI will block videos that are inappropriate for kids

  YouTube will start using AI to automatically add age restrictions to videos "over the coming months," the company announced ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• A realistic picture of how AI fits into today’s economy

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Scientists demonstrate first 'plug and play' brain prosthesis in a paralyzed person

  The participant used the system to control a cursor on a screen using just their brain, and without requiring extensive daily ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI analyzes placentas to predict complications in the next pregnancy

  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have used machine learning to analyze placenta samples for signs of health risks ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 8 developer roles that are in high demand in healthcare

  With the demand for tech skills continuously growing across the board, there’s no shortage of new domains where software ...

  • Ben Dickson

• TinyML is breathing life into billions of devices

  Until now building machine learning (ML) algorithms for hardware meant complex mathematical modes based on sample data, known ...

  • Adam Benzion

• NASA's impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies

  NASA has developed a machine learning model that, in tests, predicted when a hurricane will intensify more accurately than ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why you shouldn't mistake AI for automation

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Vanessa Kearney

• YouTube removes record number of videos after increasing role of AI in content review

  YouTube says it took down a record number of videos in the second quarter of this year due to an increased use of AI in ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI just found 50 new planets in a huge NASA dataset

  An algorithm has confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world-first for machine learning in astronomy.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared

  Human-level performance. Human-level accuracy. Those are terms you hear a lot from companies developing artificial intelligence ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 5 reasons why autonomous cars still aren’t on our roads

  Elon Musk thinks his company Tesla will have fully autonomous cars ready by the end of 2020. “There are no fundamental ...

  • The Conversation

• How Facebook's Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence

  Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told TNW about the latest developments at FAIR, the social network's research lab. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google Sheets can improve your app with machine learning — here's how

  In this post, I’ll show you how to use beginner-friendly ML tools – Semantic Reactor and TensorFlow.js – to build an ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• Here’s why you need to start worrying about the world’s frozen peatlands

  Peatlands cover just a few percent of the global land area but they store almost one-quarter of all soil carbon and so play ...

  • The Conversation

• How to protect AI systems against image-scaling attacks

  We usually don’t expect the image of a teacup to turn into a cat when we zoom out. But in the world of artificial intelligence ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 5 ways AI is revolutionizing the world of finance

  There are plenty of reasons to believe artificial intelligence will spur the next revolution in the way we handle wealth ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why 'human-like' is a low bar for most AI projects

  Show me a human-like machine and I'll show you a faulty piece of tech. The AI market is expected to eclipse $300 billion ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Hey software developers, you’re approaching machine learning the wrong way

  I remember the first time I ever tried to learn to code. I was in middle school, and my dad, a programmer himself, pulled ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• New AI tool detects child sexual abuse material with '99% precision'

  A new AI-powered tool called Safer aims to stem the flow of child sexual abuse content, find the victims, and identify ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to name your baby using machine learning

  When I was young, I always hated being named Dale. This is mostly because my primary image of what Dales looked like was ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• Here's why IT departments need predictive analytics

  Increasing automation and digitization is inevitable. More companies are transferring their operations to IT systems, and ...

  • Cuneyt Buyukbezci

• Scientists use AI to predict what makes a successful relationship

  A new AI study led by Western University uses machine learning to work out what makes a happy relationship.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to trick deep learning algorithms into doing new things

  Two things often mentioned with deep learning are “data” and “compute resources.” You need a lot of both when developing, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Embarking on a Python journey? Then ‘Hands-on Machine Learning’ is a must read

  Writing an all-encompassing book on Python machine learning is difficult, given how expansive the field is. But reviewing ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This AI uses emoji to protect BLM protestors from facial recognition

  Stanford Machine Learning researchers have develop an anonymization tool called the BLMPrivacyBot that covers the faces of ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What is adversarial machine learning?

  To human observers, the following two images are identical. But researchers at Google showed in 2015 that a popular object ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Machine learning: How embeddings make complex data simple

  Working with non-numerical data can be tough, even for experienced data scientists. A typical machine learning model expects ...

  • Yaroslav Kopotilov

• Trouble with your tennis serves and penalty kicks? There's an AI for that

  Ah, sportsball. Can you ever forget the first time you grab that pass, fly down the court, and sink that puck right through ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• This robot uses color cameras and AI to grab transparent objects

  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University used machine learning and color cameras to train robots to grab clear and shiny ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Wake up sheeple: AI shows all tourists basically take the same picture

  A new study from Facebook's AI team shows how travel images and conservation policies influence the movements of tourists ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• These 2 books will strengthen your command of Python machine learning

  Mastering machine learning is not easy, even if you’re a crack programmer. I’ve seen many people come from a solid background ...

  • Ben Dickson

• New 'Computer Prophet' generates profound metaphors for life and death

  UCLA student Elias Henriksen created the AI-powered Computer Prophet to answer existential questions through novel metaphors. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics

  A study by data science firm Anaconda found a "concerning" absence of AI ethics initiatives in both academia and industry. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• A comprehensive guide on how to detect faces with Python

  Today we're going to learn how to work with images to detect faces and extract facial features such as the eyes, nose, and ...

  • Live Code Stream

• To Gmail, Black Lives Matter emails are 'promotions'

  As protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the United States, Gmail is treating emails ...

  • The Markup

• What is generative adversarial network (GAN) — and how it makes computers creative

  This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try) to disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Moments ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Amazon is using an AI camera system to monitor social distancing in its warehouses

  Amazon has unveiled its latest attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 through its warehouses: an AI camera system known ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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, ...

  • Elana Krasner

• How to step up your programming skills with Python machine learning

  With so many books and online courses on data science and machine learning, it’s very hard to navigate your way and find ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Study: Artificial brains need rest too

  Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory found that the artificial brains benefitted from a digital analog of sleep ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Michael McKenna

• 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

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI algorithms are puzzled by our online behavior during the coronavirus pandemic

  At some point, every one of us has had the feeling that online applications like YouTube, Amazon, and Spotify seem to know ...

  • Ben Dickson

• YouTube removed phrase critical of Chinese government due to AI error

  Google claims that the removal of a phrase used as an insult to the Chinese government from YouTube comments was a machine ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook's using AI to find scammers and imposters on Messenger

  Facebook is using AI to spot scammers on Messenger. The feature searches for suspicious activity without reading your chats ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI tool automatically identifies different types of brain injury

  Scientists from Imperial College London and Cambridge have developed an AI tool that can identify different brain injuries ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How machines see: everything you need to know about computer vision

  Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. If ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic

  BenevolentAI's discovery of a potential coronavirus treatment show's that drug discovery is one application of AI that's ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• An explanation of machine learning models even you could understand

  If you are new to data science, this title is not intended to insult you. It is my second post on the theme of a ...

  • Megan Dibble

• The NHS is using AI to predict coronavirus ventilator and ICU demand

  The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is using AI to predict demand for intensive care beds and ventilators during the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Everything you need to know about narrow AI

  In 1956, a group of scientists led by John McCarthy, a young assistant-professor of mathematics, gathered at the Dartmouth ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google's AutoML Zero lets the machines create algorithms to avoid human bias

  It looks like Google's working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language 'AutoML.' According ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How a nearly fatal accident changed the way I do business

  One bad decision can change your life forever. And that decision will affect how you make choices – both personally and ...

  • Gabriel Smith

• How AI can determine which coronavirus patients require hospitalization

  As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world, governments and hospitals are being overwhelmed ...

  • Ben Dickson

• AI analyzes biology studies to find out we're getting better at wildlife conservation

  A new AI system has revealed that we're finally getting better at wildlife conservation after evaluating thousands of academic ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers use AI to translate text found on ancient clay tablets

  Scientists at the University of Chicago are developing a machine learning system that can automatically transcribe text found ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• TNW announces Neural: A blog for human-centric AI news and analysis

  We're excited to officially launch Neural today, a blog dedicated to highlighting the impact artificial intelligence and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• How Google used AI to supercharge Maps in 2019

  Google has used new machine learning models that enable the service to recognise building shapes and handwritten numbers. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI predicts Oscar winners — but betting sites do it better

  The BigML team made their Oscar predictions with a Deepnets model, optimised implementation of the Deep Neural Networks supervised ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers found 'at least' 9 gender expressions in the human brain

  Humans thrive on simplicity, a black and white existence that helps to define otherwise grey subject matter. When born, a ...

  • Bryan Clark

• This neural network accurately predicts extreme weather events

  Weather forecasters could use the Rice University capsule neural network method as an early warning system

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Machine learning for everyone: How to implement pose estimation in a browser using your webcam

  The 20th century turned out to be an era of exponential growth in the field of machine learning. The 3000-year-old ...

  • Kartik Nighania

• For AI to succeed, ‘computer says no’ needs to die

  Data scientists and enterprises need to make sure the factors used by AI to derive a decision are transparent to the people ...

  • Aditya Sriram

• Scientists are arguing over YouTube's role in online radicalization

  Does YouTube create extremists? A recent study caused arguments among scientists by arguing that the algorithms that power ...

  • The Conversation

• RealityEngines' AI could help small businesses overcome the data gap

  RealityEngines.AI today came out of stealth to launch an autonomous AI generation service aimed at startups and medium to ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Get ready for the emergence of AI-as-a-Service

  By delivering analytical behavior persistently learned and refined by a machine, AIaaS can significantly improve business ...

  • Ji Li

• Text this number for an infinite feed of AI-generated feet

  Someone trained a computer to create fake feet pics — and you can get endless AI-generated foot pics by texting this number. ...

  • Mix

• Here’s how to spot legitimate AI from marketing fluff

  Q: What’s the difference between AI and Machine Learning (ML)? A: If it’s written in Python, it’s ML. If it’s written ...

  • Tim Velasquez

• Here's what AI experts think will happen in 2020

  It's been another great year for robots. We didn't quite figure out how to imbue them with human-level intelligence, but ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 2010 – 2019: The rise of deep learning

  No other technology was more important over the past decade than artificial intelligence. Stanford's Andrew Ng called it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why AI could benefit from seeing the world as kids do

  Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm. It is already manifesting in a plethora of industries and organizations ...

  • James Warner

• [Best of 2019] AI is already changing how cancer is diagnosed

  We take a look at how artificial intelligence is impacting the ways in which cancer is diagnosed, and treated.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• [Best of 2019] Why the criminal justice system should abandon algorithms

  It's time that US courts stopped relying on biased algorithms to excuse the inherent bias embedded within the criminal justice ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Skydio 2 hands on: Drones just got fun again

  The Skydio 2 autonomous flying camera (some people call it a drone) starts shipping to preorder customers today and that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning

  Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Mozilla and Element AI want to build 'data trusts' in the artificial intelligence age

  Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based Element AI ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• This AI system predicts seizures an hour before they happen with 99.6% accuracy

  A pair of researchers from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have developed an artificial intelligence system that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Intel takes on Google and Amazon with 2 new AI-focused chips

  Intel has unveiled two new processors as part of its Nervana lineup with an aim to accelerate training and inferences drawn ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• AI is now being used to shortlist job applicants in the UK — let's hope it's not racist

  AI-based video interviewing software such as those made by HireVue are being used by companies for the first time in job ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Machine learning algorithms and the art of hyperparameter selection

  Wokring in AI? Here's a review of the power of an optimization strategy and an overview of four commonly used optimization ...

  • Mischa Lisovyi and Rosaria Silipo

• Why a robot that can 'solve' Rubik's Cube one-handed has the AI community at war

  OpenAI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk, recently unveiled its newest trick: A robot hand that can 'solve' Rubik's Cube. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Listen to this AI spit out brutal death metal non-stop

  CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski turn to AI and neural network models for music creation, and have launched a YouTube channel that ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

  Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge.

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Project Veritas and 'whistle-blower' published bullshit 'data-leak' to dox Google employees

  Project Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the 'bombshell' that it'd obtained hundreds of leaked ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Project Veritas releases 'internal documents' from Google and alleges anti-conservative bias

  Former Google employee Zachary Vorhies has released nearly 1,000 documents which he says is evidence of the search giant's ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Here's what you need to know about IBM's new open-source Data Asset Exchange for AI

  IBM's Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT) recently unveiled a pair of carefully curated databases designed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here's how algorithms can protect us against deepfakes

  Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons ...

  • The Conversation

• IBM's Call for Code Starter Kits are a perfect intro to coding and AI

  IBM recently debuted technology Starter Kits to aid those joining the company's Call for Code challenge. Anyone interested ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This IBM Code Pattern makes it easy to create your own object recognition AI

  IBM developer Nicholas Bourdakos recently created a new Code Pattern that lets just about anyone develop and train an AI ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Breakthrough research demonstrates AI can predict a psychotic break

  A trio of researchers have developed an experimental machine learning method that allows AI to listen for the early whispers ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Who are the creators of AI-generated art — programmers or machines?

  The Art of Tech track at #TNW2019 will explore whether computer algorithms can truly create art, and how AI has been affecting ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI

  A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

  In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...

  • Ben Dickson

• How AI can help close the gender pay gap and eliminate bias

  We’ve learned how to build self-driving cars and smartphones but somehow still didn't figure out how to pay men and women ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Autumn is coming: Expert says hype cycle will give way to 'rich harvest' of useful AI

  Winter isn't coming. At least not for the world of artificial intelligence. Jeff Bigham, program director of the Human-computer ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Meet the nonprofit that’s already fighting for the rights of sentient robots

  Movies like Blade Runner and other science fiction tend to depict robots as self-aware machines, capable of making their ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Physicists developed an experimental quantum device to predict the future

  A team of scientists from Griffith University in Australia and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This company changes the DNA of investing — through machine learning

  While the largest financial institutions in the world are using machine learning to create advanced investment practices, ...

  • eToro

• Machine learning academics are flocking to tech giants and that might be a problem

  The die is very much cast when it comes to the growth of machine learning. With the expansion of tech companies like Google, ...

  • Binary District Journal

• AIs are being trained on racist data – and it’s starting to show

  Machine learning algorithms process vast quantities of data and spot correlations, trends and anomalies, at levels far beyond ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Google's AI-powered Doodle to celebrate Bach's birthday is its best ever

  Google is celebrating the 334th birthday of Baroque composer extraordinaire Johann Sebastian Bach with its first-ever AI-powered ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Full moon patents: Uber’s pick-up AR, Microsoft’s crime scene AI, and Boeing’s toilet

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• You’re teaching Alexa to be an asshole

  “Shut up, Siri!” “Screw off, Alexa!” We’ve all heard people berating their voice assistants, often in colorful ...

  • Tara Kelly

• IBM's latest trick: Turning noisy quantum bits into machine learning magic

  IBM researchers built a pair of algorithms that lay the foundation for the future of machine learning with quantum advantage. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The US Army wants us to pretend autonomous tanks aren't killer robots

  Killer robots? Are you going to throw that in the Army's face everytime you have an argument? You're being irrational. Look, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why data privacy is hot and machine learning is not

  Looking back on the past twelve months, we will all remember cybersecurity scares, revelations of data malpractices, and ...

  • Rafael Laguna

• Here's who has the most juice in Twitter's AI influencer community

  The most influential people in the world of AI on Twitter might surprise you. We examine an Onalytica study on the reach ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Here are the 5 hottest startups in Portugal

  It might be everyone’s dream to move to Portugal. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, and weather. Its vibrant startup scene ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Sears’ bankruptcy underscores the need for tech innovation in retail

  The demise of Sears provides a perfect cautionary tale. By all accounts, the former retail giant -- which was in a “death ...

  • Daniel Gabay

• Who's afraid of OpenAI's big, bad text generator?

  Have you heard about this new AI that makes fake news? It's supposedly so dangerous the developers had to lock it up! Not ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias

  Predictive policing exacerbates inherent systemic bias, covers up unlawful policing, and perpetuates misinformation. It's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Marketing and CX enter the age of machine learning, but are businesses ready?

  There is no longer a delineation between digital and traditional customers. Anyone with a smartphone traverses between online ...

  • Brian Solis

• How Alphabet's Jigsaw think tank is fighting radicalization online

  Jigsaw — a unit within Alphabet — is one of the most important projects working towards countering cyber attacks, censorship, ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity

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