Unis turn to webcam-watching AI to invigilate students taking exams. Of course, it struggles with people of color
In briefPlus: IBM shares its ML know-how in schizophrenia fight
05 Oct 2020 | 81
Artificial Intelligence
IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there
Open-source projects aim to give researchers, startups a helping hand
02 Oct 2020 | 5
Talk about working smarter: NASA scientists searching for craters on Mars train AI software to do the job for them
Forty minutes of picture peering slashed to just five seconds
02 Oct 2020 | 14
How's this for open government? Amsterdam, Helsinki put their AI system designs on public display
'We are on a mission to create as much understanding about algorithms as possible'
01 Oct 2020 | 9
How do I apply AI to all my data and make my business different?
SponsoredFirst of all, get the right infrastructure in place
01 Oct 2020 |
VMware and Nvidia buddy up to integrate AI containers with vSphere, promising results as 'fast as public cloud'
VMworldBut no faster, so do you need it?
30 Sep 2020 |
Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers
Video5U box can reach up to six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second, it is claimed
29 Sep 2020 | 8
Arm hasn't given up on self-driving car brains – its new Cortex-A78AE is going into Nvidia's Orin chip, for a start
Yes, that Nvidia
29 Sep 2020 | 6
Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use
In briefPlus: CIA launches new research lab for AI experts, and more
27 Sep 2020 | 35
First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling
VideoRobot named Curly bends it like Beckham in 'chess on ice' smackdown
26 Sep 2020 | 35
SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents
IgniteStarts trying to make fetch happen... build your own models to parse corporate content
25 Sep 2020 | 6
It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile
If you find yourself wrestling with big docs on small screens, Photoshop maker's iOS, Android apps may be able to help
24 Sep 2020 | 36
Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam
Elon Musk wants his money back, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes also pile in
24 Sep 2020 | 55
Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything
Ignite'The scope of commercial and creative potential is profound'
23 Sep 2020 | 11
Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing
Ignite'People analytics' tool touted to count folks, measure how close they are via video cameras
22 Sep 2020 | 26
Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests
Strange, it didn't show up during development, says social network
21 Sep 2020 | 32
Coding unit tests is boring. Wouldn't it be cool if an AI could do it for you? That's where Diffblue comes in
A big time saver – but 'we can't tell if the current logic that you have in the code is correct or not.' Oh
21 Sep 2020 | 30
Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
In briefPlus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM
19 Sep 2020 | 6
How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired
Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW?
17 Sep 2020 | 76
Safety driver at the wheel of self-driving Uber car that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide
Doesn't matter if a computer was in control, responsibility rests with the human, says prosecutor
16 Sep 2020 | 89
Nvidia says regulators will be 'very supportive' of $40bn Arm buy despite concerns about chip designer's independence
Meanwhile, co-founder petitions UK.gov to keep HQ and jobs at home
14 Sep 2020 | 52
IBM calls for US export bans on facial recognition tech including cameras and big iron
‘Certain foreign governments’ can’t be allowed to conduct mass surveillance
14 Sep 2020 | 17
US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?
In briefSoftware fighter pilots could bring a whole new meaning to 'crash and burn'
14 Sep 2020 | 29
Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...
Register DebateSpoiler alert: Not that machine-learning salesperson
11 Sep 2020 | 37
Something to look forward to: Being told your child or parent was radicalized by an AI bot into believing a bonkers antisemitic conspiracy theory
OpenAI'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
11 Sep 2020 | 84
Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots
Databases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won'
10 Sep 2020 | 24
Q: How does hydrogen turn into a metal? A: Hang on a second, I need to train my AI supercomputer first
Since we can't build a planet
10 Sep 2020 | 44
AI in the Enterprise: How can we make analytics and stats sound less scary? Let's call it AI!
Register DebateNew names for old recipes
09 Sep 2020 | 9
AI in the enterprise: Get ready for a whole new era of smart software fueled by mountains upon mountains of data
Register DebateOur Register Debates continue in which we spar over hot topics and YOU decide which side is right – by reader vote
09 Sep 2020 | 9
Europe is falling behind in AI, we need to launch our second machine learning-powered satellite soon, says ESA
Hot on the heels of ɸ-sat-1, the space agency is planning to launch ɸ-sat-2
09 Sep 2020 | 6
AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad
Register DebateIs AI just a rebrand of yesterday's dumb algorithms? We present the argument against this motion – and don't forget to vote
07 Sep 2020 | 27
AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help... just not too much
Register DebateToday we launch our Register Debates in which we spar over hot topics and YOU decide which side is right – by reader vote
07 Sep 2020 | 38
Remember OpenAI's GPT model that was too dangerous for mere mortals? Well, it's now for sale on Azure
In briefPlus: Man incorrectly identified as a suspect by a facial recognition software is suing, and more
06 Sep 2020 | 13
'We're not claiming to replace humans,' says Google, but we want to be 'close enough' that you can't tell it's a bot talking
Reassuring... Fortunately, customers will be subject to ethical review
04 Sep 2020 | 51
Google declares Maps COVID-19-ready after retraining it on pandemic traffic – or the lack of it in some areas
50 per cent decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started
03 Sep 2020 | 9
Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works
And if it does, chalk a win for IBM Watson at last
03 Sep 2020 | 14
