Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is about the construction and study of systems that can learn from data. For example, a machine learning system could be trained on email messages to learn to distinguish between spam and non-spam messages. After learning, it can then be used to classify new email messages into spam and non-spam folders. The core of machine learning deals with representation and generalization.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Here's why IT departments need predictive analytics
Increasing automation and digitization is inevitable. More companies are transferring their operations to IT systems, and ...
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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.
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 mouth. This method has the potential to do many incredible things from analyzing faces to capturing facial features to tag people in photos, either manually or ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Study: Artificial brains need rest too
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory found that the artificial brains benefitted from a digital analog of sleep ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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[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.
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[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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias
Predictive policing exacerbates inherent systemic bias, covers up unlawful policing, and perpetuates misinformation. It's ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity
Anonymous sperm donors have been around for more than a century, but that's soon to change thanks to the modern evolution ...
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Luckily, AI still needs humans to succeed
Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, ...
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Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest
Nvidia's incredible people-creating AI is now available online. Now you can create startling images of people who do not ...
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AI will soon decide what we eat
Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...
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Politicians have failed us, it's time for AI to stop school shootings
Thoughts, prayers, and politicians have proven ineffective against the threat of school shootings. It's time to demand schools ...
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Trump's government shutdown cut off access to crucial public data
President Donal Trump's failed attempt to strong-arm Congress into funding his uneccessary border wall through a government ...
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How AI will change storytelling and become the next great art form
We spoke to Fable founder and executive producer Edward Saatchi about the future of VR, art, entertainment and AI. Get ready ...
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Here's how male (and white) VC firms are
CB Insights released its top 100 VC influencers, and guess what? There are only 9 women on the whole list. This isn't how ...
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Why AI can't solve everything
The hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. There seems to be no shortage of sensationalist ...
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Stop worrying about AI taking over the world — it won’t
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...
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Why researchers want to build an AI that can predict a person’s attractiveness
It's an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” but while this romantic notion may bring comfort to those dealt a poor hand in life, it also gives the impression that the foundations of attractiveness ...
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3 ways AI will improve healthcare in 2019
In a recent piece, I explained why AI’s complexity shouldn’t be a deterrent for its adoption. In fact, I went as far ...
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Moving beyond 'all models are wrong' and into rational AI
Can AI ever be "rational"? We examine work discussing the idea of AI that can surpass human's limited ability for rational ...
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You can take Google's Machine Learning Crash Course for free now
Google really wants you to learn how to develop AI. It's offering the same course it gives to company engineers free to everyone ...
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5 ways AI can be an ally for human rights over the next decade
Happy Universal Human Rights Day! We came up with five ways we think AI will help us in the fight for all of humanity over ...
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Yale teaches robots not to mess with people's stuff
A group of computer scientists from Yale University created a machine learning paradigm for robots to understand the very ...
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Here’s what your phone can learn from the sound of your voice
It can determine everything from who you are and where you come from, your current location, your gender and age, and what ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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Watch: Science unravels the mysterious art of beatboxing
Scientists from USC have turned to the old school art of beatboxing as a pathway to understanding the deeper machinations ...
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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019
On the imminent death of native apps, and seven other trend predictions.
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s ...
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overused term in our language and has many different meanings from mathematics to sewing to machine learning -- ...
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The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution
From beating us at the game of GO, to recreating paintings by Van Gogh, algorithms are all around us. Artificial Intelligence ...
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NASA is developing AI to give directions in space
Before we all join Space Force and go invade Mars we're going to have to figure out how to build bases and navigate in space. ...
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Quick guide to understand the hype around ‘deep learning’
You’ve probably heard the phrase 'deep learning' bandied about in conversation, or maybe you've read about it in a post ...
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7 surprising companies where you can work on cutting-edge AI technology
While automation slowly eats away at human jobs, the demand for AI talent continues to grow at an accelerating pace. Here ...
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AI can now ‘listen’ to machines to tell if they’re breaking down
Sound is everywhere, even when you can’t hear it. It is this noiseless sound, though, that says a lot about how machines ...
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Google Photos now creates shareable GIFs from your videos
Google has updated its Photos service with neat new features today - most notably, the ability to automatically generate ...
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Gain a competitive career advantage and learn the powers of machine learning and data science
With its reach increasing, it’s time for the tech-savvy to start truly understanding the global implications of these technologies ...
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This startup wants to clear cities of cigarette butts using crows (yes, the bird)
Sometimes you run into an idea that seems so ridiculous, you simply have to know more about it – even if it’s just to ...
