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
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In the tech.courses blog we explore technology topics including as Machine Learning, TensorFlow.js, and JavaScript. These blog posts complement our online video courses but are available to all!
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
TensorFlow.js for React Native: Up & Running!
Earlier this month, TensorFlow.js for React Native was made generally available following an alpha release phase. React Native is a popular framework for mobile app development. It utilises native components for optimal … 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
End of the line for drug resistant bacteria?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an AI algo which helped to quickly define a new bug busting molecule. Drug resistant bacteria are on the increase making some diseases impossible … 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
China Trumped?
Before I get to the substance of the heading, I thought I’d pose a question…… Is the Chinese national surveillance system (the AI camera network) all it’s cracked up to be? I … Read more
FDA makes ultra sound AI decision!
The Food and Drug Administration in the USA has, through its ‘De Novo’ pathway process, approved AI software for use in echocardiograms. Echocardiograms use ultrasound to effectively take pictures of the heart. … 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