Ambitions to see the rise of a Brit equivalent to Apple is cool and all but that strategy must include safeguarding chip designer, says union The UK government has been urged to add legal protections to the proposed £31bn sale of Brit chip designer …
Lees meerStrange, it didn't show up during development, says social network Twitter says its AI that automatically crops images in tweets didn't exhibit racial or gender bias when it was developed – even though in production it prefers to crop out dark-skinn…
Lees meerA big time saver – but 'we can't tell if the current logic that you have in the code is correct or not.' Oh Oxford-based Diffblue has claimed its AI will automate one of the most important but tedious tasks in software development: writing unit test…
Lees meerPlus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM Roundup Samples of Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100, teased more than a year ago, are now shipping to select customers, the tech giant said this week. The hardware is due to o…
Lees meerOh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW? The UK government has enlisted controversial US AI biz Palantir in a bid to "mitigate and manage potential disruption at the border" as the country's departu…
Lees meerData-harvesting test pilots to roam the streets wearing AR glasses and little lanyards explaining that you’re being recorded By permitting conspiracies and blatant falsehoods to circulate unchallenged, Facebook made denial of reality a nasty feature…
Lees meerGive that tagging finger a rest While Microsoft has added audio transcription to the premium edition of Word Online, cloud arch-rival Amazon has switched on the ability to identify languages in audio.…
Lees meerDoesn't matter if a computer was in control, responsibility rests with the human, says prosecutor The woman who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber car when it hit and killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide.…
Lees meer£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare The UK's Ministry of Defence has £900,000 for any companies willing to supply it with weaponised drones capable of flitting around “urban environments” and even poking their e…
Lees meerRadars, aeroplanes, radio: Don't forget the boffins on this 80th anniversary Comment Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, where Britain saw off Nazi Germany's air force and briefly stood alone against Hitler's military might. …
Lees meer‘Certain foreign governments’ can’t be allowed to conduct mass surveillance “Certain foreign governments” should not be allowed to access technology that would let them deploy facial recognition technology as a tool of mass surveillance, says IBM go…
Lees meerSoftware fighter pilots could bring a whole new meaning to 'crash and burn' In brief The US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said a “full-scale tactical aircraft” controlled by an AI system will go up against a human fighter pilot in a real-world do…
Lees meerOpenAI's GPT-3 can go from zero to QAnon stan in 60 seconds... or however long it takes to ask it a couple of questions OpenAI’s powerful text generator GPT-3 can, with a little coaxing, conjure up fake political conspiracies and violent manifestos …
Lees meerDatabases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won' The nation to dominate modern warfare with AI will not have necessarily built the most deadly killer robot or algorithm – it’ll be the one that has the best inf…
Lees meerProtectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears Chinese drone maker DJI has commissioned yet another security audit with FTI Consulting that's given it a clean bill of health, as the US government reportedly prepares to ban its remo…
Lees meerSince we can't build a planet Scientists have trained a neural network on a supercomputer to simulate how hydrogen turns into a metal, an experiment impossible to reproduce physically on Earth.…
Lees meerHot on the heels of ɸ-sat-1, the space agency is planning to launch ɸ-sat-2 The European Space Agency is planning its second AI-powered climate-monitoring satellite, the Φ-sat-2, just days after it successfully launched its first one aboard the Vega…
Lees meerReassuring... Fortunately, customers will be subject to ethical review Google has teased new bot technology aimed mainly at contact centres as part of its Cloud AI week in the seemingly unending Cloud Next OnAir videofest.…
Lees meer50 per cent decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started Machine-learning models used to direct the journeys of Google Maps users have been retrained to adapt to changing traffic conditions during the coronavirus outbreak.…
Lees meerAnd if it does, chalk a win for IBM Watson at last Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are turning to machine-learning models to predict the severity of incoming hurricanes.…
Lees meerTakes its domestic standard for human/robot interactions to the ISO to get moving machines working with humans in hospitals and beyond Japan’s Ministry of the Economy and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have opened a…
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