A penny for your thoughts?
An AI algo can now convert brainwaves to speech or text.It seems the algo monitors brainwaves as a subject speaks and converts them in to sentences. Sort of what the subject himself … Read more
Artificial Iconoclast
AI algos Police the Web during Coronavirus
Greetings to my readers as the socially isolated Artificial Iconoclast here pens his blog from the garret. While the world’s population hunkers down in isolation, some may turn to social media to … Read more
AI Ethics makes for strange bedfellows
You couldn’t make this up but the mighty corporations of IBM and Microsoft have teamed up with the Roman Catholic Church to formulate an AI ethics taskforce! The Iconoclast here gasps with … Read more
EU at odds with “AI Wild West”
The European Commission intends to draw up new legislation to protect its citizens from AI. Likening AI to the “Wild West” they said they would concentrate on high risk areas. (Are they … Read more
AI filters ‘virtual’ flashers!
There’s a filter which has just been developed for Twitter users to automatically detect and delete dick pics. Apparently 53% of women between the age of 18 and 29 have received objectionable … Read more
On yer Bike with AI!
Transport for London (TFL) in association with Vivacity Labs have been using their sensors equipped with AI algorithms to detect the methods of transport Londoners use to get to work. It appears … Read more
Robots, Chat Bots and now Frog Bots!
Scientists have created entirely new life-forms from African frog cells, furthermore they can be programmed and used as ‘robots’. Stem cells from the xenopus laevis frog have been ‘stitched’ together to make … Read more
Russia rocks up at Vegas!
At CES 2020 , the technology show in Las Vegas, the tech giant you’ve never heard of…….Yandex brought along quite a smart car. Yandex is Russia’s answer to Google and enjoys 60% … Read more
Deepfakes in Deep doo doo’s at Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook has announced that they will remove all videos modified by AI from its social media platform. Although uncommon, they are seen as an increasing problem and … Read more
Humans get emotional over AI
We have covered the use of AI in facial recognition. It’s well established and in places like China, endemic. There’s a new angle to this now…..emotional recognition! Yes, AI algos are being … Read more