Italy has banned the use of facial recognition, except for law enforcement purposes.
On Monday, the country’s Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) issued official stays to two municipalities – the southern Italian city of Lecce and the Tuscan...
If you ask ten different data practitioners to define AI, you’ll get ten different answers. In its simplest form, AI is software that recognizes and reacts to complex patterns—but the way in which businesses derive value from those patterns can vary drastically.
In recent...
A class-action lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI and Microsoft over GitHub Copilot.
GitHub Copilot uses technology from OpenAI to help generate code and speed up software development. Microsoft says that it is trained on “billions of lines of public code … written by...
Amid global economic turmoil, using AI to improve online experiences and extract the most value from every investment is more important than ever.
The advertising industry is a pioneer of AI and machine learning; harnessing the technologies to deliver personalised experiences that...
Meta has unveiled a new protein-folding AI that could be revolutionary for science and the development of new medicines.
Facebook, as the company was known before changing its name, has always been seen as a leader in AI. The popular open-source framework PyTorch was Facebook’s...
Shutterstock is expanding its partnership with OpenAI to advance how AI image generators are trained and how contributors are rewarded.
The stock image service will offer “direct access” to OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator through its website.
“The mediums to...
Dating app Bumble is open-sourcing its lewd-spotting AI tool that was first introduced in 2019.
The tool helps to protect users from certain unsolicited photos – and we’re not just talking about genitalia, but also shirtless selfies and photos of firearms.
When a suspect...
The US Court of Appeals has upheld previous rulings that AIs cannot hold patents for inventions.
AIs are increasingly being used to make new discoveries but, under most patent laws, a human must be listed as the patent holder for inventions.
Dr Stephen Thaler created a...
Oracle and NVIDIA have formed a multi-year partnership to help customers solve business challenges with accelerated computing and AI.
The collaboration aims to bring the full NVIDIA accelerated computing stack - from GPUs to systems to software—to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...
Omdia analysts have assessed that the chatbot market will remain “served by a robust, diverse ecosystem of vendors”.
The report highlights that it’s contrary to the assessment of vendor assessments and traditional technology market trends.
Mark Beccue, Principal...
Oil and gas stations, automotive manufacturing plants, warehouses, and remote store locations are environments that are not as conducive to traditional computing. But instead of a natural trade-off in performance, edge computing – much like the Internet of Things (IoT) before it – is seeing...
New data from Tech Nation and Dealroom found that VC investment in UK AI companies hit a record in Q2 2022 and is on track to at least equal last year.
Around 2,009 AI companies are based in the UK, the AI capital of Europe. Renowned companies include Graphcore, BenevolentAI,...
Advancements in AI are providing transformational benefits to enterprises, but keeping risks in check and improving consumer sentiment is paramount.
Explainable AI (XAI) is the idea that an AI should always provide reasoning for its decisions in a way that makes it easy for humans...
Tesla’s purpose-built AI supercomputer ‘Dojo’ is so powerful that it tripped the power grid.
Dojo was unveiled at Tesla’s annual AI Day last year but the project was still in its infancy. At AI Day 2022, Tesla unveiled the progress it has made with Dojo over the course of the...
Correctly labelling training data for AI models is vital to avoid serious problems, as is using sufficiently large datasets. However, manually labelling massive amounts of data is time-consuming and laborious.
Using pre-labelled datasets can be problematic, as evidenced by MIT...
OpenAI has removed the waitlist for its DALL-E service and the text-to-image generator is now publicly available.
The original DALL-E debuted in January 2021 to much fanfare. In April this year, DALL-E 2 was released with significant improvements.
Interest around DALL-E has...
As issues like skills shortages and business disruptions continue to challenge the world, the ability to automate work more broadly becomes even more critical. Business and IT leaders are looking to intelligent automation to continue to drive operational efficiencies while growing their...
Ash Damle, Head of AI and Data Science at TMDC, explains how the company is humanising and democratising data access.
AI News: The Modern Data Company (TMDC) aims to “democratise” data access. What are the benefits to enterprises?
Ash Damle: Modern companies are data...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leader in public cloud infrastructure now has more than 200 fully featured services, including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media,...
Rapid advancements in AI require keeping high ethical standards, as much for legal reasons as moral.
During a session at this year’s AI & Big Data Expo Europe, a panel of experts provided their views on what businesses need to consider before deploying artificial...
The road to maturity for any technology in the enterprise is long and arduous. Take data and analytics platforms as an example. Data from 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise series in March found a third of companies surveyed were still yet to fully embrace a data-driven approach to...
There’s a good chance the answer that an employee needs to do their job effectively is available within the company, but it can often be difficult to surface.
Research suggests that around three hours per day are spent searching for information. Even more frustratingly, around 44...
Meta-created framework PyTorch now has an independent foundation to drive the adoption of AI tooling.
The PyTorch Foundation will operate under the Linux Foundation umbrella and boasts a governing board with representatives from industry giants including AMD, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA,...
Sisense defines infusion as the practice of incorporating data and insights into end-user business applications. “Infusion is all about putting decision-supporting insights into a product in a way that feels native. It’s accessible. And it’s far more interesting,” Scott Castle SVP of...
Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told a live audience at PAX that he’d like to see QA (Quality Assurance) testers replaced by AI.
Gaming QA testers regularly come under fire as bug-riddled games reach the hands of disappointed gamers with seemingly increasing...
NVIDIA has revealed that it’s subject to new laws restricting the export of AI chips to China and Russia.
In an SEC filing, NVIDIA says the US government has informed the chipmaker of a new license requirement that impacts two of its GPUs designed to speed up machine learning tasks:...
The French government is successfully using AI to discover taxable swimming pools.
IT firm Capgemini worked with Google to create the AI which analyses aerial photos taken by France’s National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, identifies pools, and then...
Text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion is now available for anyone to put to the test.
Stable Diffusion is developed by Stability AI and was initially released for researchers earlier this month. The image generator claims to deliver a breakthrough in speed and quality that can run...
Inworld, a Disney-backed startup using AI to create realistic non-playable virtual characters (NPCs), has closed a $50 million Series A funding round.
The startup has attracted interest for its ability to design and deploy interactive characters with more realistic interactions across...
DARPA has launched a competition to find AI solutions that can help with sourcing critical minerals.
Critical minerals are raw, non-fuel materials that are vital for manufacturing products that are essential to national security.
DARPA is teaming up with the US Geological...
