A study has found that OpenAI’s GPT-3 is capable of being indistinguishable from a human philosopher.
The now infamous GPT-3 is a powerful autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.
Eric Schwitzgebel, Anna Strasser, and Matthew Crosby...
A robot went rogue at a Moscow chess tournament and broke a kid’s finger after he made a move prematurely.
The robot, which uses AI to play three chess games at once, grabbed and pinched the child’s finger. Unfortunately, despite several people rushing to help, the robot broke...
Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla, has announced that he is departing the company.
Karpathy has spent the past five years at Tesla. Prior to Tesla, he was a research scientist at OpenAI working on computer vision and generative modelling. Go back further still and you’ll find...
AI21 Labs has raised $64 million in a funding round to help it compete against OpenAI and other NLP leaders.
Competition in NLP (Natural Language Processing) is heating up. OpenAI is currently seen as the industry leader with its GPT-3 model but rivals are gaining...
Meta has unveiled a new AI model called NLLB-200 that can translate 200 languages and improves quality by an average of 44 percent.
Translation apps have been fairly adept at the most popular languages for some time. Even when they don’t offer a perfect translation, it’s...
A new platform launched by Vodafone and Google called AI Booster aims to handle thousands of ML models a day across 18+ countries.
AI Booster is the result of 18 months of development and is built upon Google’s Vertex AI and integrates with Vodafone’s Neuron...
A landmark case in Japan could force tech giants to reveal how their algorithms work.
Last month, a Tokyo court ruled in favour of Hanryumura – a BBQ restaurant chain operator – in an antitrust case brought against Kakaku.com, operator of Tabelog, Japan's largest restaurant review...
The UK is set to ease data mining laws in a move designed to further boost its flourishing AI industry.
We all know that data is vital to AI development. Tech giants are in an advantageous position due to either having existing large datasets or the ability to fund/pay for the data...
Open AI has trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using just a small amount of labeled contractor data.
With a bit of fine-tuning, the AI research and deployment company is confident...
The US Internal Revenue Service has unveiled expanded voice bot options to help eligible taxpayers easily verify their identity to set up or modify a payment plan while avoiding long wait times.
"This is part of a wider effort at the IRS to help improve the experience of taxpayers,"...
HCL Technologies DRYiCE has launched DRYiCE IntelliOps (IntelliOps), a solution addressing the full-stack AIOps and business flow observability needs of an enterprise.
Enterprises today have invested heavily in complex solutions for digital initiatives to modernise their technology...
Google has placed one of its engineers on leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is “sentient”.
The engineer in question, Blake Lemoine, is part of Google’s Responsible AI division. In a Washington Post article posted over the weekend, Lemoine said that he believes...
Google has explained how machine learning is helping to make Chrome more secure and enjoyable.
Starting with security, Google says that its latest machine learning (ML) model has enabled Chrome to detect over twice as many phishing attacks and malicious sites.
The new...
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...
