All aboard The Mayflower?
There will be no pilgrims aboard this Mayflower when it sets sail from Plymouth to the USA. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) will replicate the 400 year old journey which took pilgrims … Read more
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Biochemical AI?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superman! No, no, no, but Physarum polycephalum could be either an animal or a fungus! Nobody really knows but its certainly an … Read more
City giant voices concerns over Chinese AI firm.
Goldman Sachs a joint sponsor of Megvii’s initial public offering (IPO) along with JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup is expressing its concerns over ‘recent developments’ associated with this Chinese AI company best … Read more
Deepfake and Fake News
We have seen examples of deepfake videos, some are good and some plainly easy to spot. The AI behind the video manipulation improves all the time and now it requires even less … Read more
The AI Genie, already out of the bottle?
In a recent book, ‘Human Compatible, Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control’, Dr Stuart Russell, a distinguished AI researcher and computer scientist at UC Berkeley questions the ‘standard model’ of AI … Read more
350mS or less to get you moving!
Researchers at Clinatec along with the University of Grenoble have developed an exoskeleton which uses sophisticated algorithms to decode messages sent from a brain interface chip (an 8*8 sensor array coupled to … Read more
AI recruiting tool provides best match
Hirevue, a company specialising in recruitment software has an AI application which (they say) provides a better and fairer match of candidate to prospective employer. Using data from a video interview which … Read more
The Wisdom of Solomon?
I am sure if we were ever to be in court we would hope that the judge dispensing justice would show the wisdom of Solomon. So what sort of justice would an … Read more
Loebner Prize founder fooled by chatbot
Robert Epstein one of the founders of the Loebner Prize (an annual conversational Turing type of test) whilst apparently looking for love on the Internet, struck up an email conversation with Ivana, … Read more
AI data seems skewed Police say
The Police in their use of AI intelligence tools are worried the software may seem to increase prejudice as its algorithms drill down on data to target certain groups. The Iconoclast in … Read more