Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 3
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Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat
Comment Social media giant reportedly plans to get ‘leaner,' needs boatloads of graphics chips
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 3
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Comment Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling
AI + ML28 Jun 2022 | 89
Manufacturers realize quantifiable gains - Analytics, cloud, edge intelligence & 5G
Sponsored Feature It’s time for factories to get smart
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Cerebras sets record for 'largest AI model' on a single chip
In brief Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more
AI + ML27 Jun 2022 | 5
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it?
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 6
Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips
Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 2
Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality
Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think?
AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 1
Microsoft promises to tighten access to AI it now deems too risky for some devs
Deep-fake voices, face recognition, emotion, age and gender prediction ... A toolbox of theoretical tech tyranny
AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 10
GitHub's AI code assistant Copilot takes flight. And that'll be $10 a month, please
You wanna bug fix and chill?
AI + ML21 Jun 2022 | 19
If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too
In Brief Plus: FTC warns against using ML for automatic content moderation, and more
AI + ML20 Jun 2022 | 16
AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem
Opinion It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all
AI + ML20 Jun 2022 | 126
Leave that sentient AI alone a mo and fix those racist chatbots first
Something for the Weekend Cue robot armies of whiny digital seven-year-olds complaining they're being 'cancelled'
AI + ML17 Jun 2022 | 85
If you really want to transform your business, get AI to transform your infrastructure first
ITOps isn’t enough anymore reckons HPE. You need AIOps
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Look to insects if you want to build tiny AI robots that are actually smart
Flying, swarming, decision making already in production in nature
AI + ML16 Jun 2022 | 21
GPUs aren’t always your best bet, Twitter ML tests suggest
Graphcore processor outperforms Nvidia rival in team's experiments
AI + ML16 Jun 2022 | 5
Tesla Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body
First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives
AI + ML15 Jun 2022 | 58
Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI
Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness
AI + ML13 Jun 2022 | 193
Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids
In brief Plus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more
AI + ML12 Jun 2022 | 46
For the average AI shop, sparse models and cheap memory will win
Massive language models aren't for everyone, but neither is heavy-duty hardware, says AI systems maker Graphcore
AI + ML10 Jun 2022 | 1
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NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth
Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum
City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all
ESA ruins our day with some bad news
China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit
Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures
FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs
Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?
PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"
'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him'
Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab
End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger
Trio accused of selling $88m of pirated Avaya licenses
Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say
Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined
Analysis Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison
IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch this week
It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem
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AI to help study first images from James Webb Space Telescope
To find dark matter and early galaxies, Morpheus could be The One
AI + ML09 Jun 2022 | 7
AI chatbot trained on posts from web sewer 4chan behaved badly – just like human members
Bot was booted for being bothersome
AI + ML09 Jun 2022 | 30
IBM CEO explains why he offloaded Watson Health: Not enough domain expertise
And not enough customers, Shirley?
AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 15
AI and ML could save the planet – or add more fuel to the climate fire
'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity
AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 31
Enemies Waymo, Uber now friends making self-driving-ish trucks for US highways
When you think about it, it makes cents
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 14
US Copyright Office sued for denying AI model authorship of digital image
What do we want? Robot rights! When do we want them? 01001110 01101111 01110111!
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 31
IBM AI boat to commemorate historic US Mayflower voyage finally lands… in Canada
Nearly two years late and in the wrong country, we welcome our robot overlords
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 25
Nvidia taps Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPU for Hopper-powered DGX H100
A win against AMD as a much bigger war over AI compute plays out
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 |
No, OpenAI's image-making DALL·E 2 doesn't understand some secret language
In brief Plus: Who is responsible for libel by ML models, and more
AI + ML07 Jun 2022 | 17
Transport giant picks up Google Cloud AI to aid package delivery, tracking
When an exec asked for help tackling supply-chain woes, were they told to 'just Google it' or what?
AI + ML06 Jun 2022 | 1
Police lab wants your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse
Updated Like the Hotdog, Not Hotdog app but more Kidnapped, Not Kidnapped
AI + ML03 Jun 2022 | 54
IBM's self-sailing Mayflower suffers another fault in Atlantic crossing bid
If the idea was to see if a ship could make it without any humans, we think we may have the answer by now
AI + ML02 Jun 2022 | 109
How AI can keep the industrial lights shining
The Darktrace approach to locking down the IIoT
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IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots
CEO talks up 'great economics to franchisees ... through the power of software... AI and creative construct'
AI + ML30 May 2022 | 27
IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic
Whaddayaknow? It's made it more than halfway to America
AI + ML27 May 2022 | 70
Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training
Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia
AI + ML26 May 2022 |
Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook
Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too
AI + ML26 May 2022 | 1
AI-designed COVID-19 drug nominated for preclinical trial
Updated Treatment could stop coronavirus from replicating inside body
AI + ML25 May 2022 | 18
Clearview AI wants its facial-recognition tech in banks, schools, etc
I get knocked down but I get up again, Italy, Canada, UK, ACLU, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter... are never gonna keep me down
AI + ML25 May 2022 | 22
Google says it would release its photorealistic DALL-E 2 rival – but this AI is too prejudiced for you to use
It has this weird habit of drawing stereotyped White people, team admit
AI + ML24 May 2022 | 23
Neuromorphic chips 'up to 16 times more energy efficient' for deep learning
Graz University findings will become more significant as more AI work is done
AI + ML24 May 2022 | 6
Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans
Updated Big Bezos is watching you
AI + ML24 May 2022 | 142
Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images
Updated Notorious selfie-scraper must pay $9.43 million – less than half of predicted fine – says data regulator
AI + ML23 May 2022 | 73
Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online
In brief Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops
AI + ML22 May 2022 | 25
Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London
British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up
AI + ML19 May 2022 | 26
Did ID.me hoodwink Americans with IRS facial-recognition tech?
Senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements"
AI + ML18 May 2022 | 14
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests
Still think we're ready for that autonomous future?
AI + ML16 May 2022 | 209
US cops kick back against facial recognition bans
In brief Plus: DeepMind launches new generalist AI system, and Apple boffin quits over return-to-work policy
AI + ML16 May 2022 | 9
Bosses using AI to hire candidates risk discriminating against disabled applicants
US publishes technical guide to help organizations avoid violating Americans with Disabilities Act
AI + ML14 May 2022 | 26
How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Your US tax dollars at work
AI + ML14 May 2022 | 67
Fully automated AI networks less than 5 years away, reckons Juniper CEO
You robot kids, get off my LAN
AI + ML14 May 2022 | 20
Nuance helps launch healthcare AI industry group
Microsoft embraces Nuance to deepen its healthcare connections
AI + ML12 May 2022 |
IBM's autonomous Mayflower ship breaks down in second transatlantic attempt
Human-free seafaring isn't going swimmingly
AI + ML11 May 2022 | 74
Clearview AI promises not to sell face-recognition database to most US businesses
Caveats apply, your privacy may vary
AI + ML10 May 2022 | 8
Can AI transformer models help design drugs and treat incurable diseases?
Special report From protein prediction to drug generation, neural networks are revolutionizing medication
AI + ML09 May 2022 | 8
AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders
Comment Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency
AI + ML09 May 2022 | 3
OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW
In brief Plus: SoundCloud acquires startup for better algorithmic curated playlists
AI + ML08 May 2022 | 50
Revealed: Intel's plan to sell software simplifying computer vision training
Exclusive Sonoma Creek to target non-AI experts, according to docs seen by El Reg
AI + ML06 May 2022 | 1
Alibaba opens up code for federated learning platform
Claims FederatedScope is easy to use and keeps training data private
AI + ML06 May 2022 |
Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI
A different kind of assembly language
AI + ML06 May 2022 | 3
Watchdog rubber-stamps cavity-detecting neural network for dentists
Ain't that the tooth?
AI + ML05 May 2022 | 7
Eggheads demo how to fool share-trading bots with carefully crafted retweets
Good thing no one's buying or selling stock from Twitter posts, right? Um, right?
AI + ML05 May 2022 | 16
Ex-Google, Uber AI heads launch ML error-detection platform
'Soul-sucking' data problems were impetus for the founding of Galileo
AI + ML04 May 2022 | 1
Meta releases code for massive language model to AI researchers
Now they can experiment with the algorithms even if they don't have hundreds of GPUs
AI + ML04 May 2022 | 2
AMD to offer CPUs with Xilinx AI engine in 2023
And unlike Intel, Zen giant saw boom in PC land, thanks to focus on high-end parts
AI + ML04 May 2022 |
Microsoft to ax Azure Video Analyzer in November
Deprecation less than a year after announcement, users have until December 1 to move workloads
AI + ML03 May 2022 | 6
Watch out for AI models regurgitating misplaced keys that unlock crypto wallets
Effect of GitHub's OpenAI-powered Copilot memorizing sensitive but public data
AI + ML03 May 2022 | 4
AI helps scientists design novel plastic-eating enzyme
In brief Plus: Pentagon hires first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, and more
AI + ML02 May 2022 | 20
AI models still racist, even with more balanced training
Plus: NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias
AI + ML01 May 2022 | 46
Meta materials: Facebook using AI to design green concrete
Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements
AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 18
Meet Flamingo, Deepmind's latest open-ended AI
Google says it outperforms comparable models despite needing fraction of training data
AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 4
Autonomous Mayflower to attempt Atlantic crossing, again
Second shot after lack of humans to fix simple issue crippled sea vessel
AI + ML29 Apr 2022 | 41
Using AI to think like an attacker
Darktrace attack path modelling predicts which part of the infrastructure hackers are most likely to strike
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HPE uses blockchain for distributed machine learning models
Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely
AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 1
DARPA backs virtual worlds for autonomous off-road vehicles
Intel and co outline Holodeck-like efforts for combat bots
AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 1
Algorithm can predict pancreatic cancer from CT scans well before diagnosis
Software picks up subtle clues human doctors miss
AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 18
Ex-Googlers take a stab at building 'general intelligence' that makes software do what you tell it
Star-Trek-style computers? There are worse ways to spend $65m of funding
AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 42
d-Matrix gets $44m in quest for efficient AI server chiplets
d-ream team or a d-isaster? Let's see what Microsoft's money can do
AI + ML26 Apr 2022 |
Pony.ai lassos China's first autonomous taxi license
100 self-driving cabs will wander streets of Guangzhou
AI + ML25 Apr 2022 | 3
Google Docs' AI-powered inclusive writing auto-correct now under fire
In brief Plus: IBM's CEO says we have to tackle ML ethics or intelligent systems will become monsters
AI + ML25 Apr 2022 | 115
Samsung, others test drive Esperanto's 1,000-core RISC-V AI chip
Now you're talking our language
AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 19
Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir
Move coincides with NHS England's procurement of a far-reaching data platform
AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 21
Uni team demo algorithm to shield conversations from eavesdropping AI
Predictive code messes up audio just enough to derail automatic transcription
AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 21
Robots are creepy. Why trust AIs that are even creepier?
Something for the Weekend We know where we stand with wonky-faced hardware. It's the ones we don't recognize as AIs we should worry about
AI + ML22 Apr 2022 | 105
British motorists will be allowed to watch TV in self-driving vehicles
Meanwhile, Elon Musk says we need to crack real-world AI to get fully autonomous cars to work
AI + ML21 Apr 2022 | 216
Machine-learning models vulnerable to undetectable backdoors: new claim
It's 2036 and another hijacked AI betrays its operators
AI + ML21 Apr 2022 | 16
Biotech firm: Graphcore IPUs faster for AI-based drug discovery than GPUs
Someone's got to keep, say, Nvidia on its toes
AI + ML21 Apr 2022 | 4
What will help enterprises meet sustainability goals? Algorithms, says Oracle
If you want to retain customers, Big Red recommends putting AI in charge
AI + ML20 Apr 2022 | 3
Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language
Goal is to make natural language processing available in all the world's tongues
AI + ML20 Apr 2022 | 10
Google Cloud launches exclusive AI management platform
Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations
AI + ML19 Apr 2022 | 3
AI with an improvisational streak is under development
Robots need to learn to adapt to chaotic humans, says German researcher
AI + ML19 Apr 2022 | 7
Fake it until you make it: Can synthetic data help train your AI model?
Yes and no. It's complicated.
AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 7
AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls
In brief Plus: Driverless Cruise car gets pulled over by police, and more
AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 34
How to democratize ML? More public data, says MLCommons
Foundation makes 30k hours of speech and 340k keywords in 50 languages available online
AI + ML17 Apr 2022 | 9
Cerebras' wafer-size AI chips play nice with PyTorch, TensorFlow
Better support for top ML frameworks means stronger chip competition
AI + ML13 Apr 2022 | 7
US military wants $29.8m for IT to boost AI intel analysis
Data from embedded sensors, from in the sea to in space, could be used with ML to detect next-gen weapons
AI + ML13 Apr 2022 | 6
AI-powered browser extension to automatically click away cookie pop-ups now promised
Tool disables non-essential tokens
AI + ML12 Apr 2022 | 58
Machine learning models leak personal info if training data is compromised
Attackers can insert hidden samples to steal secrets
AI + ML12 Apr 2022 | 4
Amazon, Google among backers of Eastern Europe AI site
Goal to prevent brain drain of talented computer scientists from region
AI + ML11 Apr 2022 | 3
EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database
In brief Plus: Can algorithms tell us how we're feeling from the sound of our voices and more
AI + ML11 Apr 2022 | 26
