“South of the Huai river few geese can be seen through the rain and snow.” In classical Chinese this verse is a breakthrough—not in literature but in computing power. The line, composed by an artifici...
A programming language textbook might not be the first thing you’d expect to see when walking into a correctional facility. The creators of the Brave Behind Bars program are hoping to change that. Fou...
Google might have ditched its Daydream VR headset years ago, but that doesn’t mean it gave up on headsets altogether. The Verge sources claim Google is developing an augmented reality headset, n...
The AI revolution is upon us, creating a tsunami of change that is sweeping through virtually every sector of the economy, both public and private, and it’s having a profound impact on our daily lives...
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can spot patterns that humans can’t. But they still can’t explain, say, what caused one object to collide with another. Based on capabilities, artif...
By combining artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, organizations can see and predict upcoming trends in key sectors including business, technology, finance and healthcare. AI is the simulation of...
Cyberattacks are happening faster, targeting multiple threat surfaces simultaneously using a broad range of techniques to evade detection and access valuable data. A favorite attack strategy of bad ac...
Academic writing often has a reputation for being hard to follow, but what if you could use machine learning to summarize arguments in scientific papers so that even a seven-year-old could understand ...
achine learning is the use of data and algorithms to allow machines to imitate human behaviour. This technology is applied in many different ways. One of these is in the boosting of cyber security, an...
Imagine a team of physicians using a neural network to detect cancer in mammogram images. Even if this machine-learning model seems to be performing well, it might be focusing on image features that a...
The smartphone app Replika lets users create chatbots, powered by machine learning, that can carry on almost-coherent text conversations. Technically, the chatbots can serve as something approximating...
We have accepted the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in complex processes — from health care to our daily use of social media — often without critical investigation, until it is too late. The use ...
Last November in the cavernous Amazon Room of Las Vegas’s Rio casino, two dozen men dressed mostly in sweatshirts and baseball caps sat around three well-worn poker tables playing Texas Hold ’em. Occa...
Most research into the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns its use for weaponry, transport or profiling. Although the dangers presented by an autonomous, racist tank cannot be understated,...
The science behind making machines talk just like humans is very complex, because our speech patterns are so nuanced. « The voice is not easy to grasp, » says Klaus Scherer, emeritus professor of the ...