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Lees meerLet a thousand torts bloom Companies deploying machine-learning systems trained on subpar datasets should be legally obligated to pay damages to victims that have been harmed by the technology under tort law, a law professor has opined.…
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Lees meerOut-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties Microsoft has pushed its Custom Neural Voice service to general availability, although you'll have to ask the company nicely if you want to use the vaguely unsettling text-to-speech serv…
Lees meerWith top research talent focused on commercial AI goals where do we go? Boffins from Denmark and the UK have measured the AI brain drain and found that private industry really is soaking up tech talent at the expense of academia and public organizat…
Lees meerTurning smart homes into dumb ones Ring is suffering a major outage with many of its video doorbells effectively dead, turning smart homes into very dumb ones.…
Lees meerForget academic adversarial attacks and imagine if ML were the weakest link in the chain Enigma When Microsoft surveyed 28 organizations last year about how they viewed machine learning (ML) security, its researchers found that few firms gave the m…
Lees meerPlus: Dead pop star brought back to life by ML, OECD develops effort to monitor AI power In brief Today's artificial intelligence can autocomplete a photo of someone's face, generating what the software predicts is the rest of their body.…
Lees meer15 years in the making. Out of the labs and into the real world: The 100Gbps Internet connection Why on earth would Cisco want to push fibre to your desk?…
Lees meerSeems to be full steam ahead on blockchain for uses other than funny money India has signalled it intends to create a digital version of its currency.…
Lees meerNone of that nuclear-magnetic-resonance garbage, ha Microsoft says it has made progress in its effort to develop CMOS-based chips for quantum computing.…
Lees meerJob ads call for silicon designers, ASIC engineers, display wonks and folks to build data centre and home kit Google has picked Taiwan as the location of its first hardware engineering facility outside the USA.…
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Lees meerThe cosmic ballet goes on Astronomers have discovered the first-known “sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system,” after a neural network flagged it up in data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).…
Lees meerPlus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars In Brief Google last week locked the work account of the co-lead of its AI ethics unit, Margaret Mitchell, as she investigated the controv…
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