To see ourselves as others see us!
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
Artificial Iconoclast
Weapon detection improved by AI
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!
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
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.
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
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?
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
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