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Yesterday rgMekanic treated us to a video of a SpotMini robot trying to escape and join Skynet. Today I have found a 100-page report that lays out the threat these AI creatures could pose to humanity. The report doesn't call Skynet out by name, but it does talk about the possible malicious...
Researchers at MIT have developed a new neural network chip that is three to seven times faster than earlier chips and uses up to 95 percent less power. Because of the increased speed and much reduced power requirements these new chips are ideal for smartphones and other appliances. Once these...
C-diff infectons are a common hospital-acquired malady that 453,000 people contract every year after being admitted to the hospital. Out of the large number of people that contract the infection about 29,000 die. The key to defeating it is early detection and treatment. In order to better the...
The Home Office, which is part of the UK's government, is getting into Artificial Intelligence and using it to identify terrorist propaganda video before it gets distributed on the internet and used to develop home grown lone wolf extremists. Home Office is working with ASI Data Science to...
Researchers from the USC Center for AI in Society have developed an AI system that can instantly identify and help catch animal poachers. The improved system monitors infrared cameras and can tell the difference between animals and humans in about a third of a second. They call this system...
In the latest news on AI pr0n, Reddit and Pornhub are banning the machine learning created superimposed videos known as "deepfakes." Reddit has split some old rules about adult content, one of which is now "Do Not Post Involuntary Pornography." A spokesman from Pornhub told Motherboard "We do...
The Reddit community deepfakes" which has been creating fake porn videos of celebrities using machine learning is now letter you make custom requests for a donation of bitcoin. While the legality of what they were doing was questionable at best, bringing commercial use into the mix could very...
I know all you guys out there at UC Berkeley are nodding your heads saying, "How could AI NOT be smarter than a Stanford grad?" but I digress. The basis of the headline statement lies in a Stanford University Reading and Comprehension testing database. AI technologies from both Alibaba and...
VW and Nvidia announced they will be working together to bring NV-based AI systems to the new electric microbus. This AI will have Intelligent Co-Pilot features that will make driving safer. Some of the other features are natural language speech recognition, driver monitoring, and gesture...
Nissan has unveiled a new technology today they call Brain-to-Vehicle and it sounds like a doozy of a technology. BtV will interpret signals from the brain and help the vehicle better predict a movement that the driver would like to initiate - such as pushing the accelerator or hitting the...
According to current and former contract workers who were responsible for training the YouTube AI, guidelines used to train the AI are often contradictory and confusing and this is causing the issues with child exploitation videos remaining on YouTube. Further, YouTube has promised to hire...
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors are planning on having AI assistants in their new cars starting in 2019. This new technology is going to allow all car systems to be controlled by more natural language and also allow them to utilize Car to Home features. Supposedly this assistant will have...
Up until now it's taken breweries up to 24 months to develop a new beer for the market. One of the reasons is it the time it takes for humans to run tests on the liquids to detect flavors and aromas in the new brew. In order to reduce this time (approximately 30% of total time) Carlsberg is...
Met police in London will be using AI to scan for images of child abuse/porn on suspects phones/devices in the next 2 to 3 years. They plan to move to this technology so their officers won't have to look at the approximately 53K devices per year for evidence. Once this technology is in action...
Google has decided to open up an AI research center in Beijing ever though their search engine is banned in China. Evidently they feel the need to join in with China since it has started to invest heavily in AI. I guess this is one of those times where if you can't beat them, join them.
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The US Congress wants to take a look at AI and define it so they can figure out how to regulate it. In order to make this happen, Maria Cantwell has drafted a bill that establishes a committee on AI and the committe will be responsible for advising the government on regulation and...
AI continues to evolve day-to-day and it's becoming so complex that we don't know how it comes to some of its decisions. Also, with AI now starting to design new AI how trustyworthy is the new AI going to be? Questions like these are going to continue to dog the AI community until they can be...
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a system that lets robots interact with things they've never seen before. Visual foresight is the technology and it allows robots to visualize how their actions will affect the world around them. In a nutshell, they want the robot to learn like a human...
At a private party yesterday, Elon Musk supposedly told those in attendance that Tesla was developing AI hardware that could possibly be the best in the world. Also, he opined that fully automated driving will be available in about 2 years, but didn't mention if or when his new hardware was...
A group of AI's recently banded together and produced a 5 track death metal album and released it for free. One AI did the music, one did the track titles, and the third created the album cover. I'm not a fan of death metal so I can't comment on the quality. I bet we have some aficionados...
Back in May of this year Google announced the creation of an AI (AutoML) that is able to design better AIs. AutoML built a new AI that's called NASNet that is used to recognize objects. NASNet out performs its human designed counterparts and the methods used to develop it are the future of...
GE healthcare has announced they will be using Nvidia AI in over 500,000 medical devices around the world. The tech is going to improve the outcome of patients with liver legions and other similar lesions because it will enable doctors to detect them more quickly. The uses for AI in the...
Facebook has rolled out a new AI that scans for suicidal posts across their platform, excluding the EU because of privacy laws. Supposedly this will find something before a person reports a post and will then alert a moderator that will contact first responders. All of this sounds innocent...
Artificial intelligence continues to benefit us everyday. I know Elon thinks it's going to kill us off, but for now it's making nuclear reactors safer by helping to detect cracks in nuclear reactors. As long as AI can do stuff like that for us I'm completely fine with it. If Skynet arises...
Elon Musk recently spoke to Rolling Stone and shared his thoughts about climate change and the development of AI. He believes both of these are the biggest threats to humanity in the future. He has always been a climate change proponent, but what I found interesting is his comment that there's...
A call for research projects from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology posted online last month fills in some detail on the government’s plans. And it puts Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia, the leading supplier of silicon for machine-learning projects, in the cross hairs. The Ministry of...
Mindfire, a new foundation with the goal of “decoding the mind” to help develop true artificial intelligence (AI) launched November 17th in Zurich, Switzerland. According to Futurism, Mindfire is going to bring together some of the best minds in the world and attempt to build a machine with...
For a new ad campaign dropping today, Adobe Systems placed all its eggs in the programmatic basket. In doing so, the software giant wants to illustrate its belief that such automated buying processes will soon become the only way to effectively place ads. Sounds interesting, but I wonder how...
For those of us that keep track of tech companies it's no surprise that Nvidia had $2.6 billion in revenue last quarter. On the heels of that announcement the folks at Venture Beat interviewed Nvidia's CEO and his responses are interesting to say the least.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Santa Clara...
Bitmain claims to have built at least 70 percent of the computers on the Bitcoin network and now they want to leverage their technology to build AI chips and computers. Their new AI chip will be specialized in both training and executing deep learning algorithms. As a matter of fact they say...
Ok, first we hear AI is going to destroy us all. Next, we hear AI is just going to enhance us. Now this piece says we are designing some AI's to be mentally unstable. Is this something that's really smart to do? I'm starting to lean back to the opinion that AI is going to destroy us if this...
We've been reading plenty of doomsday predictions for AI from people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. However, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer for Google and famous futurist, spoke in a discussion held at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday. He emphasized how AI would enhance humankind...
AI is probably going to take over many simple jobs, but maybe lawyers are on the way out as well. There was a contest that took place last month that pitted 100 lawyers against an AI program called Case Cruncher Alpha. The contestants were given the basic facts of hundreds of PPI mis-selling...
Scientists at the ETH Zurich university have trained an AI to improve on photos taken with any phone camera, with a goal of attaining DSLR-quality output. Unfortunately,it's still not good enough to make a phone camera photo as good as a DSLR photo. However, AI enhanced photos are still pretty...
Computer scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can outsmart the Captcha website security check system. AI capability continues to accelerate at a break-neck pace as far as I'm concerned. With this development it appears that Captcha is going the way of the dodo. What's Google...
University of Helsinki researchers have developed artificial intelligence software, which can evaluate the maturity of a preterm infant's brain directly from an EEG. As discussed here, the EEG-based brain maturity evaluation systems is the first of its kind in the world. The analysis software...
Two years ago, Elon Musk and others established a nonprofit AI lab called OpenAI. OpenAI has published dozens of research papers and just posted one Thursday - the lead author is still in high school. According to this Wired article, Kevin Frans is a senior in high school that trained his...
Google worked with Intel to develop a special-purpose chip for AI and other tasks in the new Pixel smartphones. Intel has to feel somewhat happy with this arrangement since they more or less dropped out of the mobile phone/tablet business last year. I guess time will tell how long this...
This is a fairly long Chinese paper that delves into figuring out the IQ of different forms of Artificial Intelligence. Great fun since these guys have included the most popular versions of AI that most of us likely interact with in Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri. Interestingly they show...
This is a nice article that talks about the ever expanding role of AI in cyber defense. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. AI can identify and react faster than any human and time is of the essence when your network is under attack. I for one welcome our new AI overlords.
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