Category: #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

One goal of AI researchers is to figure out how to make machine learning models more interpretable so researchers can understand why they make their…

In 2016, Alphabet’s DeepMind came out with AlphaGo, an AI which consistently beat the best human Go players. One year later, the subsidiary went on…

Even the most dedicated musicians have to put down their instruments sometimes, but on YouTube, you can listen to a bass solo that keeps going…

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass a new police reform bill that will ban police departments and public agencies from using facial recognition technology across…

Climate change is far and away the greatest threat of the modern human era — a crisis that will only get worse the longer we…

Facial recognition is being used in many different ways. We use it to log in to our phones and computers, and the police can use…

The AI can cut the time taken to detect a crater from 40 minutes to five seconds Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/artificial-intelligence-mars-craters-nasa-b1341139.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story…

Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI. In 2016, Google said its artificial intelligence…

Whether you’re protesting or just stepping out for a boba, you deserve some algorithm-free alone time. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-thwart-facial-recognition-other-surveillance/ Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Researchers have developed a new machine learning-based tool that detects potential COVID-19 outbreaks in individual US counties. The system makes its assessments by analyzing reported COVID-19 cases and deaths, rates of…

YouTube’s automated filters were less reliable than human moderators, but the company ‘accepted a lower level of accuracy; to ensure harmful content was removed Source:…

Alphabet’s DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/dogfight-renews-concerns-ai-lethal-potential/ Proactive…

In a pairing that has all the makings of a privacy and/or human rights nightmare waiting to happen, the dystopian facial recognition software maker Clearview…

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, DARPA will no longer hold an in-person event for its third and final AlphaDogfight Trial that’s scheduled to take place…

Users have received notifications when their Google Home speakers hear smoke alarms or breaking glass Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-home-smart-speakers-listen-switch-on-smoke-detector-glass-breaking-a9652991.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared it…

‘I’m very confident about full self-driving functionality being complete by the end of this year,’ he says. ‘It’s because I’m literally driving it’ Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-self-driving-tesla-artificial-intelligence-a9634311.html…

New York lawmakers have passed a moratorium that would ban the use of facial recognition in schools until 2022. Their decision comes a month after…

For more than a year, people opposed to giving police access to face recognition technology have pointed to criminal cases such as that of Willie…

‘SmartReply’ system guesses what YouTubers might want to say and writes it out for them Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-google-comments-ai-artificial-intelligence-reply-smart-video-a9600216.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared it…

A group of Democratic Senators and House representatives have introduced a bill that seeks to ban federal use of facial recognition technology. It follows an…

Many critics of police facial recognition use warn of the potential for racial bias that leads to false arrests, and unfortunately that appears to have…