With due deference to the Ali Baba’s Syrian source, the other Alibaba more commonly known for its global trading platform has sought to allay fears that an AI app will not compromise … Read more
Apparently Facebook have developed an AI assistant for Minecraft which users can control from various typed commands. This AI assistant takes the form of an avatar within the Minecraft world and allows … Read more
In a collaborative project, researchers from Bioversity International and India’s Imayam Institute of Agriculture and Technology and Texas A&M University have developed a new smartphone app for banana growers to allow them … Read more
Before I explain the title I would like to introduce you to OpenAI and their large-scale unsupervised language model that can generate coherent paragraphs of text, has reading comprehension skills, question answering … Read more
What a ripper idea! The Ripper Group and the University of Technology, Sydney has designed some drones with AI marine recognition. Claiming an accuracy of 93% over 15 different types of marine … Read more
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…… Yes, the Iconoclast here reports that a number of corporations are working on crewless shipping and ships. Captain, Master … Read more
What happens when a patent application cites an AI inventor named Dabus (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience)? Yes, a machine as an inventor of something original! It seems that … Read more
Ever disturbed a wasp’s nest? I have and it was both uncomfortable and interesting. Interesting because the attacking wasps went straight for their target, me! No fly past, no choosing landing sites, … Read more
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, Huawei is rolling out a major facial recognition CCTV system in Uganda. Apparently a burgeoning crime wave is making it very difficult … Read more
How long would it be before AI was used by criminals? Well, I am afraid to say….they already do! Deepfake makes use of AI in a process know as human image synthesis. … Read more