The majority of Axon’s AI ethics board have resigned after the company announced that it’s developing taser-equipped drones.
In response to yet another shooting in a US school, Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith began thinking about how the company could help put a stop to the all...
A groundbreaking AI-powered ship designed by IBM has successfully crossed the Atlantic, albeit not quite as planned.
The Mayflower – named after the ship which carried Pilgrims from Plymouth, UK to Massachusetts, US in 1620 – is a 50-foot crewless vessel that relies on AI and edge...
The way we watch, engage, and interact with our favourite sports clubs is undergoing a seismic shift. Recent UK research suggests that data will now have a more important role in fan engagement than ever before. In this article, we take a closer look at what this means for sports clubs serious...
Gary Marcus has criticised a prediction by Elon Musk that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) will be achieved by 2029 and challenged him to a $100,000 bet.
Marcus founded RobustAI and Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), is the Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural...
Google has added “creating deepfakes” to its list of projects that are banned from its Colab service.
Colab is a product from Google Research that enables AI researchers, data scientists, or students to write and execute Python in their browsers.
With little fanfare,...
The co-founder of a fast-growing conversational AI start-up attributes its ongoing success to the commitment to building a diverse and trusting company culture almost as much as to the quality of the technology it is offering.
Andrei Papancea is CEO of conversational AI specialist...
The CEO of AI cybersecurity firm Darktrace has called for a “Tech NATO” to counter growing cybersecurity threats.
Poppy Gustafsson spoke on Wednesday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) – the UK’s leading and world’s oldest defense think thank – on the evolving...
A deepfake video created by Dutch police could help to change the often negative perception of the technology.
Deepfakes use generative neural network architectures – such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs) – to manipulate or generate visual and audio...
Clearview AI has been fined £7.5 million by the UK’s privacy watchdog for scraping the online data of citizens without their explicit consent.
The controversial facial recognition provider has scraped billions of images of people across the web for its system. Understandably, it...
Zoom has caused a stir following reports that it’s developing an AI system for detecting emotions.
The system, first reported by Protocol, claims to scan users’ faces and their speech to determine their emotions.
Zoom detailed the system more in a blog post last month....
A machine learning exec who left Apple due to its return-to-office policy has reportedly joined Google DeepMind.
Ian Goodfellow is a renowned machine learning researcher. Goodfellow invented generative adversarial networks (GANs), developed a system for Google Maps that transcribes...
Nuance has partnered with The Health Management Academy (The Academy) to launch The AI Collaborative, an industry group focused on advancing healthcare using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Nuance became a household name for creating the speech engine recognition engine...
Clearview AI has proposed to restrict sales of its faceprint database as part of a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The controversial facial recognition firm caused a stir due to scraping billions of images of people across the web without their consent. As a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common than you may realise. Many of society’s leading technologies are driven by AI technology, as their automated functions streamline processes and help people do more with less time.
Now, AI is integrating into commercial security...
American rapper Kendrick Lamar has made use of deepfakes for his latest music video.
Deepfakes use generative neural network architectures – such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs) – to manipulate or generate visual and audio content.
Lamar...
Google has picked ASUS IoT to help scale the manufacturing, distribution, and support of its Coral edge AI platform.
Coral was launched in 2019 with the goal of making edge AI more accessible. Google says that it’s witnessed strong demand since its launch – across industries and...
Arm has reportedly taken back control of its “rogue” Chinese business ahead of an expected IPO.
The Chinese venture of the British semiconductor icon began operating as an independent company and conducted its own in-house R&D to create new IP. Dylan Patel, Chief Analyst at...
Craig Martell, Head of Machine Learning at Lyft, is set to head the Pentagon’s AI efforts.
Breaking Defense first broke the news after learning Martell was destined to be named as the Pentagon’s new chief digital and AI officer.
Martell has significant AI industry...
Investments in data scientists by the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) continue to increase rapidly.
The data, retrieved by the Parliament Street think tank, shows that DCMS has spent an estimated £20,606,100 on data scientist and data analyst roles...
Researchers at Georgia State University (GSU) have designed an ‘electric eye’ - an artificial vision device – for micro-sized robots.
Through using synthetic methods, the device mimics the biochemical processes that allow for vision in the natural world.
It improves on...
AI-driven scientific research firm LabGenius is harnessing the power of Graphcore’s IPUs (Intelligence Processing Units) to speed up its drug discovery efforts.
LabGenius is currently focused on discovering new treatments for cancer and inflammatory diseases. The firm combines AI,...
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that scraping data from a public website doesn’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
In 2017, employment analytics firm HiQ filed a lawsuit against LinkedIn’s efforts to block it from scraping data from users’...
Hong Kong-based AI giant SenseTime delivered a keynote titled “AI for a better tomorrow” at this year’s World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF).
George Huang, President of the International Business Group at SenseTime, led the keynote and showcased how the company is applying its AI...
Research from analytics firm SAS has found that Finland appears to be leading in hyperautomation awareness while a number of large countries are falling behind.
Hyperautomation brings together AI, robotic process automation, and multiple business processes on a cloud platform to help...
By itself, data is like a bicycle with no wheels. It can’t go anywhere. That’s where the power of analytics comes in. Similar to the wheels of a bike, analytics powers data to reveal meaningful trends and insights, enabling organisations to make key business decisions.
As...
Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HSE) are working with NASA scientists to develop an AI system for inspecting astronauts’ gloves.
Space is an unforgiving environment and equipment failures can be catastrophic. Gloves are particularly prone to wear and tear as they’re used...
MIT has launched a new academia and industry partnership called the AI Hardware Program that aims to boost research and development.
“A sharp focus on AI hardware manufacturing, research, and design is critical to meet the demands of the world’s evolving devices, architectures,...
The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee has determined the proliferation of AI in the justice system is a threat to human rights and civil liberties.
A report published by the committee today highlights the rapid pace of AI developments that are largely happening out of...
AI-powered healthcare service Babylon Health has announced a partnership with Google Cloud to boost scalability and innovation.
London-based Babylon Health is a digital-first health service provider that uses AI and machine learning technology to provide access to health information...
We often hear about the benefits artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to medicine and healthcare through drug research, but could it also pose a threat?
Researchers from Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, a North Carolina-based drug discovery company, have published a paper that...
