Last week’s announcement of AlphaCode, DeepMind’s source code–generating deep learning system, created a lot of excitement—some of it unwarranted—surrounding advances in artificial intelligence. As I’...
The words artificial intelligence (AI) and ‘machine learning’ (ML) are likely familiar to anyone in the healthcare sector by now; the phrases are used so regularly that they may perhaps begin to lose ...
Artificial intelligence (AI)–powered audio, image, and video synthesis—so-called deep fakes—has democratized access to previously exclusive Hollywood-grade, special effects technology. From synthesizi...
Federal Judge Releases ‘Razzlekhan,’ Orders Other Bitfinex Hack Laundering Suspect to Remain in Jail
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge has ordered one half of the couple accused of laundering the proceeds of a 2016 Bitfinex hack to remain in federal custody until they face trial. Prosecutors allege ...
Responding to the now weeks-long, trucker-led protests that have snarled streets in Ottawa and blocked key crossings at the U.S.-Canada border, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this afternoon in...
Rhonda Kampert, une Américaine résidant dans l’Illinois, a acheté six bitcoins en 2013. Cette année là, le cours de la cryptomonnaie ne dépassait pas les 80 dollars. “J’avais l’habit...
NFT. Ces trois lettres affolent en ce moment le retail. Le secteur du luxe se montre particulièrement pro-actif tandis que le secteur du mass-market cherche à comprendre le concept et surtout à identi...
L’idée d’un environnement virtuel immersif, ouvert et universel alimente les phantasmes de nombreux auteurs et entrepreneurs. Pourtant, la réalité opérationnelle nous force à comprendre que cette visi...
Every time you ask Alexa to turn on your lights or play a song, you’re using AI. But AI is also put to work in more serious ways, like facial recognition software by law enforcement. Some critic...
It’s a long-standing debate, one that this weekend made headlines: will artificial intelligence (AI) ever be conscious or is it already so? OpenAI top researcher Ilya Sutskever took to Twitter t...
After the best part of two years away from live-soccer matches, football fans deserve better (by football, I mean the older, actual kind.) Instead, fans are being offered NFTs. The English Premier Lea...
Language is the cornerstone of human intelligence. The emergence of language was the most important intellectual development in our species’ history. It is through language that we formulate thoughts ...
These jaw-breaking developments gave rise to expectations from AI and made many curious about upcoming trends and advances in the field. Thus, this article will highlight some of the key forthcoming d...
Acclaimed economist Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, proposed that the human brain has two separate systems for decision making – system 1 and system 2. System 1 controls unconsciou...
Our species owes a lot to opposable thumbs. But if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per hand is enough. Not so for neural networks, the leadi...