Artificial Iconoclast, Author at tech.courses

GPT-3 the future for AI?

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

OpenAI the Californian non-profit company, started in 2015 with a goal to ensure that high performing AGI systems (artificial general intelligence systems) which could potentially outperform humans in most situations would be … Read more

AI goes scentient!

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

No, not a typo but a play on words. AI is being used by the perfume industry to bring new combinations of scents together but it can’t smell a thing! The algo … Read more

To see ourselves as others see us!

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

When Robert Burns in 1786 wrote: Oh, would some Power give us the giftTo see ourselves as others see us!It would from many a blunder free us,And foolish notion:What airs in dress … Read more

Weapon detection improved by AI

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

Event security is tighter than it ever was. Very few individuals would brazenly attempt to gain access to an event with his favourite Glock pistol on display. So the job of weapon … Read more

Sorry AI you are not human!

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

Well, that was a headline to state the bleeding obvious (as per Fawlty Towers BBC TV). But that was what the US Patent and Trademark Office has decided over Artificial Intelligence vs … Read more

Google’s AI goes cold calling

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

In the locked down UK, Google are using it’s AI phone assistant Duplex to ring round businesses to find out what their opening hours are in these Covid-19 days. Duplex sounds very … Read more

Russia adopts Chinese style surveillance.

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

To try and get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic now sweeping Russia, the State is using a combination of AI facial recognition linked in real time to mobile phone tracking data … Read more

Google’s AI gap filler

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

Never before has the Internet groaned under the weight of video calls and we have all experienced poor quality ones. Google to the rescue! Apparently if you use Duo app (and I’ve … Read more

A penny for your thoughts?

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

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

AI algos Police the Web during Coronavirus

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 by Artificial Iconoclast

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

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