AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared They can't be any worse than some human developers AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 17
DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques How Meta, er, meta AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models? AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Boffins hunt and kill cockroaches with machine vision laser Oh the hijinks of academia Offbeat05 Oct 2022 | 49
MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching Edge + IoT05 Oct 2022 | 6
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
This rumor needs to Die Hard: Bruce Willis denies selling face to deepfake biz Superstar is still exclusively a meat popsicle Bootnotes04 Oct 2022 | 16
Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot Optimus Sub-Prime? For something meant to revolutionize production lines, reveal wasn't quite there yet AI + ML03 Oct 2022 | 109
Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17
Europe just might make it easier for people to sue for damage caused by AI tech Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234... AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 17
OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence? When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 10
City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets Analysis 'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads AI + ML27 Sep 2022 | 65
AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now In brief Plus: ML career help, OpenAI releases free speech-recognition model, and more news AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 23
Darth Vader voice actor James Earl Jones allows AI to take over the role Ukrainian outfit Respeecher's GAN-based neural audio enhancer embraces The Dark Side AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 41
The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback Thanks for the advice AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 20
Autumn's GTC shows who Nvidia really cares about GTC Hint: It’s not necessarily gamers Systems22 Sep 2022 | 7
Getty bans AI-generated art due to copyright concerns You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 8
Now's your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines (But wot about us vultures, sniff) AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 89
Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1
Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art In brief Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 26
Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8
US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China Systems16 Sep 2022 | 9
Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph That's nice, but what about Nv's H100? AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2
Nvidia buys Arm ... Neoverse V2 CPU cores for Grace chip GPU giant still thinks Softbank-owned designs are worth the RISC Systems14 Sep 2022 | 1
Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears Log4j being the main driver, this data science poll claims Security14 Sep 2022 | 17
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39
US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more AI + ML13 Sep 2022 | 6
Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030 1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years Software12 Sep 2022 | 89
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data Analysis High level of image duplication in a single paper is a sign of cheating AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 17
Brain-inspired chips promise ultra-efficient AI, so why aren’t they everywhere? Interview It's not because our AI overlords aren't keen on the idea AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 25
Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software In brief Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images AI + ML11 Sep 2022 | 38
Nvidia claims 'record performance' for Hopper MLPerf debut H100 Tensor Core GPU leaves A100 in the dust, but company says previous gen has improved too HPC09 Sep 2022 |
Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery Analysis Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this AI + ML08 Sep 2022 | 7
Amazon drivers unionize after AI sends them on 'impossible' routes Being subcontractors, their working conditions ain't our problem – US giant's stance Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 60
Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork – and some people aren't happy In brief Plus: Use machine learning to understand your cat ... possibly AI + ML03 Sep 2022 | 63
One man's battle to get patent rights for AI inventors in America may be over Analysis Stephen Thaler is fighting the law, and the law is winning AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 46
Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 77
Googler says she was forced out after opposing $1.2bn cloud contract with Israel Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 166
Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes In brief Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more AI + ML28 Aug 2022 | 84
How archaeologists can use AI to date our ancestors Human remains from millennia ago analyzed by the machines their descendants built AI + ML25 Aug 2022 | 24
Intel set to squeeze the flops out of Ponte Vecchio GPU Hot Chips Now this x86 giant just needs to ship a compatible CPU Systems23 Aug 2022 | 5
Musk tries to sell Tesla's Optimus robot butler to China In brief Plus: How US Homeland Security uses AI – and text-to-image systems deployed in social media AI + ML21 Aug 2022 | 37
GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises Shakeup in teaching looms as code-completion tool lets students 'bring an Uzi to a knife fight' AI + ML19 Aug 2022 | 58
Google promises to adjust search algorithm to favor 'people-first content' Well now there's an idea Personal Tech19 Aug 2022 | 54
AI chip adds artificial neurons to resistive RAM for use in wearables, drones 'Even on a small coin battery, it could run for more than 10 years' claims researcher AI + ML18 Aug 2022 | 12
UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses Updated Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 71
DARPA seeks a few good AI coders to help America find its own rare minerals There's some pocket change in it for you, if you can crack this nut AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 12
AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 7
Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright Do we want to recognise machines as authors? AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 52
Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks In brief Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 50
AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials FDA says yes to the tests AI + ML13 Aug 2022 | 21
Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit Black Hat In Brief TL;DR: The news isn't good Security13 Aug 2022 | 6
Tech industry stuck over patent problems with AI algorithms Lawyers at Google are unsure if they can patent chip floorplans created by machines AI + ML10 Aug 2022 | 29
Harvard boffins build multimodal AI system to predict 14 types of cancer Many sources become one AI + ML09 Aug 2022 | 2
Real-time deepfakes can be beaten by a sideways glance For now at least, until data catches up AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 10
China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 22
UK wants criminal migrants to scan their faces up to five times a day using a watch In brief Plus: Meta launches prototype AI chatbot, and cities reverse facial recognition bans AI + ML07 Aug 2022 | 129
FauxPilot: It's like GitHub Copilot but doesn't phone home to Microsoft Updated And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing Devops06 Aug 2022 | 19
Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait' Stanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha AI + ML05 Aug 2022 | 114