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
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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
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
Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing
Updated Campaign group's study uses tiny sample size, test done without hands on the wheel
AI + ML09 Aug 2022 | 240
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
California accuses Tesla of false advertising over Autopilot
DMV goes after manufacturer and dealer licenses
AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 29
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
Claims of AI sentience branded 'pure clickbait'
Stanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha
AI + ML05 Aug 2022 | 114
AI-friendly patent law needed 'as a matter of national security', ex-USPTO boss says
Neural network training and whatnot didn't occur to 18th century founders
AI + ML02 Aug 2022 | 32
David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging
Interview Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism
AI + ML01 Aug 2022 | 10
MIT boffins make AI chips '1 million times faster than the synapses in the human brain'
In brief Plus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir
AI + ML01 Aug 2022 | 18
Nearly all protein structures known to science predicted by AlphaFold AI
Let's hold off the champagne until an actual drug is developed using this tech
AI + ML28 Jul 2022 | 27
Now another Meta acquisition in jeopardy: VR biz Within
And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised
AI + ML28 Jul 2022 | 14
MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions
But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?
AI + ML27 Jul 2022 | 22
About that $1b... IBM says Watson Health assets fetched $230m in pre-tax profits
Unit was supposed to transform oncology yet never turned a profit, ended up in hands of private equity
AI + ML26 Jul 2022 | 15
Nvidia gets down with low code in AI Enterprise update
GPU giant promises to make ML accessible to even the most modest biz
AI + ML26 Jul 2022 |
Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger
But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems
AI + ML25 Jul 2022 | 60
I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient
In brief Plus: How writers are using AI tools to help them write fiction more quickly
AI + ML23 Jul 2022 | 86
UK blocks China from licensing Manchester Uni's robot vision tech
National Security and Investment Act used to prevent export felt to have nasty defense implications
AI + ML22 Jul 2022 | 12
Baidu crashes the cost of robo-taxis by 75 percent
Steering wheel not required, if desired – or you could add a coffee machine
AI + ML21 Jul 2022 | 29
Cruise self-driving cars stopped and clogged up San Francisco for hours
In brief Plus: Head of AI and Autopilot at Tesla quits, FIFA rolls out AI in this year's football World Cup, and more
AI + ML18 Jul 2022 | 37
FDA clears way for an AI stethoscope to detect heart disease
Algorithm proves better than primary care doctors at recognizing signs of heart trouble
AI + ML14 Jul 2022 | 15
China may be the future for Mercedes-Benz
Partnership with Tencent is the latest sign automaker sees Middle Kingdom innovation as key to its success
AI + ML12 Jul 2022 | 5
Meta's AI-based Wikipedia successor 'may be the next big break in NLP'
Don't believe everything you read on the internet
AI + ML11 Jul 2022 | 21
Intel hits another speed bump with delayed Mobileye IPO
Analysis No biggie, it was only supposed to help fund a big manufacturing expansion
AI + ML11 Jul 2022 |
AI inventors may find it difficult to patent their tech under today's laws
Comment Why newfangled algorithms could be a headache for examiners
AI + ML09 Jul 2022 | 28
More and more CS students are interested in AI – and there aren't enough lecturers
Brain drain of researchers flocking to industry is not the real problem here, report suggests
AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 18
Elon Musk had secret twins in 2021 with Neuralink exec
The births bring SpaceX overlord's brood to 9 ... that we know of
AI + ML07 Jul 2022 | 32
Vodafone picks Google for MLops project that self-serves models in minutes
Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans
AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI
Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out
AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
Meta's AI translation breaks 200 language barrier
Open source model improves translation of rarer spoken languages by 70%
AI + ML06 Jul 2022 | 6
Health trusts swapped patient data for shares in an AI firm. They may have lost millions
Deals leave NHS bodies out of pocket after collapse in value of UK health tech company
AI + ML06 Jul 2022 | 35
People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO
In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?
AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 44
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 | 94
Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat
Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 31
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 | 100
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
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 | 47
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
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 | 14
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
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