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 ...
Duke University researchers have created an artificial intelligence platform to analyze potentially cancerous lesions in mammography scans and determine whether patients should receive invasive biopsi...
A dispute over “web3” in the cryptocurrency industry was publicly exposed in a Twitter spat between Jack Dorsey and Marc Andreessen. Here’s what it’s all about. Read more...
Microsoft’s planned takeover of Activision Blizzard puts the tech company at the centre of two big issues facing the sector: the metaverse and Washington’s determination to rein in big tech. The metav...
Visualizing the Power of the World’s Supercomputers A supercomputer is a machine that is built to handle billions, if not trillions of calculations at once. Each supercomputer is actually made up of m...
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...
The eyes may offer a « window into the soul, » as poets say, but they also have a lot to say about your health. Dry eyes can be a sign of rheumatoid arthritis. High levels of cholesterol can cause a w...
A fintech company named Milo is introducing what’s billed as the world’s first crypto mortgage. It says its 30-year, low-interest rate US crypto mortgage allows qualified borrowers to hold...
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,...
It’s fair to say that today fintech has become firmly entrenched within society and our economy. I like to say that it’s ‘crossed the chasm’: as founders, we spent the early days explaining to p...
Deep learning is a type of machine learning in AI that gathers huge datasets to make machines act like humans. Due to the use of neural networks, deep learning produces optimized results. You must hav...
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 ...