Privacy is a complex thing. We all want to control our privacy and protect it from others: we may not want them to know or be able to share intimate things about our lives. However, the funny thing is...
MARCELO DER TOROSSIAN Torres lifted the clear plastic cover off of a petri dish one morning last June. The dish, still warm from its sleepover in the incubator, smelled of rancid broth. Inside it sat ...
Qualcomm today at its Snapdragon Summit 2021 announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to bring the latter’s Neural Architecture Search to Qualcomm platforms. The move is designed to speed up the de...
Governments need to curb the power of tech companies and increase the power of workers in order to safeguard people from unsafe uses of artificial intelligence, Google’s former AI ethics chief T...
What are the most important ethical considerations for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care? The World Health Organization tried to answer this question in its recent report “Ethics and Governa...
Depuis septembre 2020, la Commission a réitéré quatre fois sa demande au gouvernement de fournir des preuves concrètes de l’efficacité des dispositifs mis en place pour lutter contre le Covid-19...
With artificial intelligence, researchers have developed a method for providing insight into how diseases or injuries change the body, down to individual cells. The imaging tool known as TDAExplore us...
Take a scenario where you plan to host your friends for brunch and decide to order bacon, sausages, and burgers. However, you remember that Cody had mentioned to you that Jessie doesn’t eat pork. So, ...
Disinformation has been used in warfare and military strategy over time. But it is undeniably being intensified by the use of smart technologies and social media. This is because these communication t...
PolyAI Ltd is an ambitious startup that creates artificial voices to replace call centre operators. Based in London, it has raised $28 million to bring AI-powered customer service to Metro Bank, BP an...
A new machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the world in the way humans do When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top o...
here are two key considerations when it comes to coding, Greg Brockman, the chief technology officer and co-founder of AI research company OpenAI, told The Verge. Part one is thinking about the proble...
There is a troubling and persistent absence of women when it comes to the field of artificial intelligence and data science. Women constitute a mere 22 per cent or less than a quarter of professionals...
Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell — a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn’t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises becaus...
Unesco’s AI guidelines oppose use of the technology for ‘invasive’ applications that ‘infringe on human rights and fundamental freedoms’ The UN agency’s recommendations come more than a month after Ch...