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...
New York’s city council recently passed a bill (38-4) that aims to reign in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the employee hiring process. Accordingly, the bill would “require that a bi...
Reading the time on an analogue clock is surprisingly difficult for computers, but artificial intelligence can now do so accurately using a method that had previously proved tricky to deploy. Computer...
What is next for AI regulation? Senior Technologist Adam Leon Smith CITP FBCS explores the implications of the EU AI Act. In September 2021, there was a panel at a ForHumanity conference, with senior ...
Artificial intelligence is present in everyday life, from booking flights and applying for loans to steering driverless cars. It is also used in specialized fields such as cancer screening or to help ...
The birth of Ethereum introduced the concept of smart contracts to the cryptocurrency world for the first time and with it, decentralized applications (dApps), the applications that operate automatica...
In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Artificial General Intelligence: the Modern Homunculus,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a and computer engineering prof, spoke with Justin Bui from ...
A recent six-hour outage for Facebook’s services was irritating for UK users. In other parts of the globe, it disrupted entire economies Read more...
Deep neural networks are known to learn opaque, uninterpretable representations that lie beyond the grasp of human understanding. As such, from both scientific and practical viewpoints, it is intrigui...
How Central Banks Think About Digital Currency In the late 1600s, the introduction of bank notes changed the financial system forever. Fast forward to today, and another monumental change is expected ...
IN 1945, FIRE claimed three of Gustav Klimt’s most controversial paintings. Commissioned in 1894 for the University of Vienna, « the Faculty Paintings »—as they became known—were unlike any of t...
It’s not often the world of semiconductors is turned on its head. It’s clear that a similar transformation is occurring as a superabundance of start-ups takes on the challenge of low-power neural nets...
Robots have histories that extend far back into the past. Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots all find expression from the human imagination in works...