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...
Recorded Future combines over a decade (and counting) of global threat data with machine learning and human expertise to provide actionable insights to security analysts.
AI News caught up with Jason Steer, Chief Information Security Officer at Recorded Future, to learn how the...
Appen’s latest annual State of AI and Machine Learning report has some interesting findings about the pursuit of safe and ethical solutions.
“This year’s State of AI report finds that 93 percent of respondents believe responsible AI is the foundation of all AI projects,” said...
A chatbot called BlenderBot was launched by Meta on Friday and it’s already been corrupted by the darker parts of the web.
To ease us in with the odd but harmless, BlenderBot thinks it’s a plumber:
https://t.co/KWEHxoXpqg also has thoughts on the Deep...
Dr Stephen Thaler’s battle to give AIs the right to patent inventions continues to stumble.
Thaler, the founder of Imagination Engines, created a device called DABUS that consists of neural networks. DABUS was used to invent an emergency warning light, a food container that improves...
An NHS trust in Liverpool is partnering with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to develop an AI chatbot to help tackle patient wait times.
Brits have become used to long NHS wait times for many years. However, the post-covid backlog has sent the number of patients on waiting lists...
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...
