AI DeepComposer strikes a discordant note
Amazon has unveiled an AI stocking filler in the US. It’s a two octave, 32-key keyboard which can connect via a USB lead to a computer. It allows the user to play … Read more
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AI enforcement tool catches texters down under
It had to happen, just as with ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) cameras we now have a texter cam. Australian law enforcement are rolling out AI equipped cameras to look down from overhead … Read more
China’s Sky Net nudges citizen behaviour.
The massive integrated Sky Net AI surveillance recognition system which boasts over 20 million CCTV cameras across China, is helping to modify citizen behaviour through a mixture of penalties and rewards. The … Read more
Go master ‘stops’
Go, the Chinese strategy game, has a new master, apparently one that can’t be defeated says former Go master Lee Se-dol. Three years ago he was challenged to a five game showdown … Read more
AI algo predicts quantum wave functions
The University of Warwick in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Luxembourg have come up with an AI machine learning algorithm to help predict quantum wave functions … Read more
Explainable AI
That giant of data crunching, Google, is launching Explainable AI. Whether this is because Google is perceived to be lagging behind Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure is uncertain. Professor Andrew Moore … Read more
Gambling with AI
It has been announced that the UK Betting and Gaming Council (a group representing 90% of the UK betting and gaming market) has launched an AI Anonymous Player Awareness System which will … Read more
The alternative space race
Back in the last century we had the USA / USSR space race. It was the potential threat of military space dominance which kicked the whole thing off with the launch of … Read more
Tulips from Amsterdam, flowers of hope?
Tulips from Amsterdam was a song made popular by Max Bygraves. It’s a song about tulips (naturally), Spring, love and hope. What the heck has this to do with AI? Well, let … Read more
AI reveals how humans process abstract thought
Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy from the University of Houston considers whether studying AI systems may help us understand how people process abstract thought. Ever more sophisticated AI systems are judged … Read more