Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan
In Brief Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo
13 Sep 2021 | 2
AI + ML
AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence
Feature (And, also worryingly, its increasing financial cost)
13 Sep 2021 | 64
Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise
Opinion Who wants to live forever? It could be the offer you can't refuse
13 Sep 2021 | 38
Right to contest automated AI decision under review as part of UK government data protection consultation
Right not to be subjected to solely automated decisions might not be keeping pace with 'data-driven economy' says document
10 Sep 2021 | 36
Why your next co-worker could be a bot
Sponsored Why now is the time for public services to embrace bots and where they can make a real positive difference
09 Sep 2021 |
Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch
Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval
08 Sep 2021 | 21
A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down
In-depth Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'
08 Sep 2021 | 81
Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance
Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave
07 Sep 2021 | 21
China blurs borders with Macau to advance chipmaking and AI plans
Special administrative region to share economic zone located on Chinese soil
07 Sep 2021 |
Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates
In Brief Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight
06 Sep 2021 | 40
Only 'natural persons' can be recognized as patent inventors, not AI systems, US judge rules
Updated This isn't over says man pushing for neural networks' rights
04 Sep 2021 | 93
Banned: The 1,170 words you can't use with GitHub Copilot
Hash cracking reveals verboten slurs, terms like 'liberals, 'Palestine,' and 'socialist' ... and Quake's famous Fast InvSqrt
02 Sep 2021 | 94
Hyundai reveals the robotaxi it built for Lyft, and a version for its very own metaverse
Hey kids? Wanna play with the future of electro-robotic transport? You get to do it two years before Lyft
01 Sep 2021 | 6
Toyota resumes autonomous Paralympics buses after vehicle hit judo competitor, forced him out of match
More human guides recruited, trained to keep eyes on machines, athletes
30 Aug 2021 | 18
Adding AI to everything won't make sense until we can use it for anything
Opinion You've gotta have standards
30 Aug 2021 | 68
Leaked: List of police, govt, uni orgs in Clearview AI's facial-recognition trials
In brief Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London
29 Aug 2021 | 17
Ready, set ... ML! Just one day to go to our first Mcubed web lecture on practical AI
Special series Tune in on Sept 2 to find out more about Benford’s distribution
27 Aug 2021 |
Machine learning data pipeline outfit Splice Machine files for insolvency
That went well
26 Aug 2021 | 3
America's Argonne lab buys AI super from HPE, AMD, Nvidia while waiting for Intel
44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora
26 Aug 2021 | 2
Cops responding to ShotSpotter's AI alerts rarely find evidence of gun crime, says Chicago watchdog
It may hurt community policing, too
25 Aug 2021 | 55
GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study
Unless you like shipping buggy or vulnerable code, keep your hands on the wheel
25 Aug 2021 | 33
Samsung testing memory with built-in processing for AI-centric servers
Suggests standard for this stuff should land in 2022 and tech improves performance by 40 per cent or more
25 Aug 2021 | 6
Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast
Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China
24 Aug 2021 | 38
We spoke to a Stanford prof on the tech and social impact of AI's powerful, emerging 'foundation models'
Interview From single points of failure to training and policies, Percy Liang covers a wide range of topics in this Q&A
23 Aug 2021 | 10
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped
In brief Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more
22 Aug 2021 | 126
Using 'AI-based software like Proctorio and ProctorU' to monitor online exams is a really bad idea, says uni panel
Updated Academics find algorithmic surveillance just isn't worth it
20 Aug 2021 | 44
Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race
May have unbeatable powers of distraction as automaker talks up its coming-soon-now AI supercomputer and glosses over product delays
20 Aug 2021 | 74
Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start 'persecution on a global basis' – 90+ civil rights groups
Letter to Cook & Co warns image-probing tech could also harm kids
19 Aug 2021 | 109
Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it
Second-gen silicon to be more accessible for devs and applications
19 Aug 2021 | 3
Senators urge US trade watchdog to look into whether Tesla may just be over-egging its Autopilot, FSD pudding
The day before Elon's big party, too
19 Aug 2021 | 71
Apple didn't engage with the infosec world on CSAM scanning – so get used to a slow drip feed of revelations
Starting with: Neural net already found in iOS, hash collisions, and more
18 Aug 2021 | 95
Boston Dynamics spends months training its Atlas robots to perform one minute of parkour almost perfectly
Video Sarah Connor is safe for now
18 Aug 2021 | 58
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Autopilot driver assist system after spate of crashes
Lights, cones, illuminated arrows all involved, say investigators
16 Aug 2021 | 106
OpenAI's GPT-3-based pair programming model – Codex – now open for private beta testers through an API
In Brief Plus: Self-driving Humvees funded by US Army to the tune of millions
16 Aug 2021 | 4
Palantir abandons any attempt at curating nice-guy image with 'Global Information Dominance Experiments'
COO also talks of recruiting and irradiating the next David Banners of the tech world
13 Aug 2021 | 26
Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Updated Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture
11 Aug 2021 | 17
