Don't trust deep-learning algos to touch up medical scans: Boffins warn 'highly unstable' tech leads to bad diagnoses
Now is not the time for Hollywood 'zoom and enhance' fantasies
13 May 2020 | 23
Artificial Intelligence
From pair to p-AI-r programming: Kite floats paid-for spin of its GitHub-trained code autocomplete assistant
Too lazy to type out Python? But not too tight to pay $20 a month?
12 May 2020 | 9
CEO of AI surveillance upstart Banjo walks the plank after white supremacist past sinks contracts
Damien Patton 'deeply ashamed' of drive-by synagogue shooting
12 May 2020 | 33
Just as we all feared, killer AI is coming... for weeds: How to build a grass-monitoring neural network for your home
RoundupPlus: Waymo to resume self-driving car tests amid pandemic, and more
11 May 2020 | 3
When the chips are down, thank goodness for software engineers: AI algorithms 'outpace Moore's law'
ML eggheads, devs get more bang for their buck, say OpenAI duo
06 May 2020 | 5
Today’s hardware and software choices will define your AI project’s success
SponsoredMachine-learning deployment without the fuss
06 May 2020 |
If at first you don't succeed... IBM finds Watson a new job: IT ops and cloud-to-the-edge computing in the 5G era
Big Blue hopes solution in search of a problem might have finally found one
05 May 2020 | 4
Proof-of-concept open-source app can cut'n'paste from reality straight into Photoshop using a neural network
VideoCode available if you want to toy with similar camera-grabbing projects
05 May 2020 | 36
Facebook's mega-chatbot has 'a persona, discusses nearly any topic, shows empathy.' Perfect for CEO version 2
RoundupPlus: OpenAI's music-making software isn't half bad ... and Banjo boss's KKK shame
04 May 2020 | 15
Human intelligence may not be enough: US military turns to machine learning algos to predict food shortages
AnalysisSupply chain issues will be hit hard as workers get sick
30 Apr 2020 | 15
I'm doing this to stop humans ripping off brilliant ideas by computers and aliens, says guy unsuccessfully filing patents 'invented' by his AI
Bloke tells all to El Reg after US, Euro officials say only 'natural' people can be patent inventors
29 Apr 2020 | 64
Free users become losers as AI startup with AWS bills to pay pursues viral opportunity
Speech recognition purveyor Otter.ai makes a choice to chase Zoom-ing dollars
28 Apr 2020 | 4
Facebook, AWS team up to produce open-source PyTorch AI libraries, grad student says he successfully used GPT-2 to write his homework....
Roundup...Nvidia CEO to unveil new tech on YouTube, and more from machine-learning world
26 Apr 2020 | 12
Who knows the secret of the black magic box? Boffins seek the secrets of AI learning by mapping digital neurons
RoundupAnd Zoox setlles with Elon's Musketeers over purloined IP
20 Apr 2020 | 4
Google Cloud's AI recog code 'biased' against black people – and more from ML land
RoundupIncluding: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process
13 Apr 2020 | 24
This machine-learning upstart trained software to snare online drug dealers. Now it's going after fake coronavirus test equipment peddlers
US govt-funded outfit hopes to kill off web quackery that puts us all at risk
10 Apr 2020 | 42
Hi, Google Duplex here, trying to book a haircut for a socially inept human. Sorry, 'COVID-19'?... DOES NOT COMPUTE
Chocolate Factory's AI call assistant will soon be getting confused by Brit idioms at the worst time possible
09 Apr 2020 | 33
Australian state adds AI number plate readers to GPS tracking of corona-quarantine busters
Western Australia is enforcing internal borders now
09 Apr 2020 | 12
Time to brush up on current affairs. Because we're predicting Li-ion batt lifetimes using impedance and AI
Well, when we say we, we mean... we read a paper some others wrote
07 Apr 2020 | 20
Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft
RoundupPlus more news from the world of machine learning
06 Apr 2020 | 9
Automatic for the People: Pandemic-fueled rush to robo-moderation will be disastrous – there must be oversight
AnalysisEFF raises alarm over increasing reliance on shoddy automation
03 Apr 2020 | 20
Relax, breaking a website's fine-print doesn't make you a criminal hacker, says judge in US cyber-law legal row
If you ignore the T&Cs to probe a site's algorithms, don't expect the Feds to swoop in using the dreaded CFAA
31 Mar 2020 | 8
Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI
RoundupYour quick summary of neural network news
30 Mar 2020 | 13
Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans
Majority of academic studies into hospital image processing aren't subjected to clinical testing
25 Mar 2020 | 19
Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'
RoundupStarsky Robotics shuts down, plus more news from world of neural networks
23 Mar 2020 | 47
FYI: You can trick image-recog AI into, say, mixing up cats and dogs – by abusing scaling code to poison training data
You may want to check what you're actually teaching your neural networks in future
21 Mar 2020 | 17
Thankfully, our AI savior is here to nail the COVID-19 pandemic: A neural network that can detect coughing
False positive rates, we've heard of them
20 Mar 2020 | 9
Yes, true, fusion reactors don't work quite yet, but, er, maybe AI can help us stop our experiments from imploding
No neural networks here, though, only decision tree algos
18 Mar 2020 | 26
One whole day: That's how long Facebook's COVID-19 content moderation went without a mess
AI flagged good content as bad content – and it took the founder of Godwin's Law to point it out
18 Mar 2020 | 12
Come back, AI. All is forgiven: We know we've mocked you in the past, but we need help analyzing 26,000 papers on COVID-19, coronaviruses
Please develop machine-learning algos to analyse this text for a vaccine
17 Mar 2020 | 11
TensorFlow gets its quantum of solace, lid lifted on 'all-seeing crime-detecting' AI upstart, and more
RoundupPlus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts
16 Mar 2020 | 7
AI startup accuses Facebook of stealing code designed to speed up machine learning models on ordinary CPUs
Neural Magic claims algos in social network's open-source compiler on GitHub look awfully familiar
11 Mar 2020 | 37
Think your smartwatch is good for warning of a heart attack? Turns out it's surprisingly easy to fool its AI
Better ask the human doc in the room
10 Mar 2020 | 37
Clearview said to be chasing every mugshot taken in the US over the last 15 years to paste into its facial-recog system
RoundupAnd more creepy surveillance AI news
09 Mar 2020 | 28
AI-predicted protein structures could unlock vaccine for COVID-19 coronavirus... if correct... after clinical trials
It's not quite DeepMind's 'Come with me if you want to live' moment, but it's close, maybe
06 Mar 2020 | 23
If you're wondering how Brit cops' live suspect-hunting facial-recog is going, it's cruising at 88% false positives
AI software led to one person on Met's watch list being positively identified out of 8,600 people
05 Mar 2020 | 92
