For customer service, Ultimate.ai‘s thesis is it’s not humans or AI but humans and AI. The Helsinki- and Berlin-based startup has built an AI-powered suggestion engine that, once trained on clients’ data-sets, is able to provide real-time…
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MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant regions of…
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IBM wants to help companies mitigate the chances that their artificial intelligence technologies unintentionally discriminate against certain groups like women and minorities. The technology giant’s tool, announced on Wednesday, can…
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Symantec is the latest private security company to offer its expertise to vulnerable political targets on the house. Today the company announced that it would extend its “Project Dolphin” service (dolphins eat phish, get it?) to political…
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More about artificial intelligence Some 96% of companies expect to see an explosion of machine learning projects in production by 2020, according to a Tuesday Univa report. While 93% of respondents reported that they had initiated machine…
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By Graham Lawton THE UK public is well-informed and positive about science and technology, but its hopes and fears are largely being ignored by politicians. That is the key finding of an exclusive New Scientist survey of public attitudes…
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A poll conducted by New Scientist Live has found 53 percent of the UK’s population are weary of the threat posed by AI. About 51 percent of those polled expressed further concern smart robots could drive unemployment and force people out…
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It really seems like a lot of AI innovation is mainstream-available. Deep Mind’s Koray Kavukcuoglu is now on Youtube talking about Impala and Spiral, which he considers to be AGI. It’s a multitasking, self-directed, deep reinforcement…
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