machine learning

To most of us, a 3-D-printed turtle just looks like a turtle; four legs, patterned skin, and a shell. But if you show it to a particular computer in a certain way, that object’s not a turtle — it’s a gun. Objects or images that can fool…

We’ve had fake videos, fake faces, and now, researchers have developed a method for AI systems to create their own fingerprints. Not only that, but the machines have worked out how to create prints that fool fingerprint readers more than…

Traditional ERP systems aren’t delivering what modern business landscape needs today to scale and grow. That is why modern businesses are taking a case-based approach to integrating machine learning into their platforms. In fact, about 35%…

Machine learning and Artificial intelligence (known as AI) both sound like futuristic terms for some dystopian future where robots take over the planet. Or at least like two different names for the same thing. There are lots of similarities…

Julian Brown took part in the trialJeff Chiu/AP/REX/Shutterstock By Poppy-Jayne MorganMany children diagnosed with autism find it hard to decipher other people’s facial expressions. An interactive system that uses Google Glass may help…

When Regina Barzilay was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was shocked at how haphazard the process was – and vowed to use her expertise to change things “In some cases the machine rivals the human. Sometimes it performs below the…

Backed by Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk, and Silicon Valley financier Sam Altman, researchers have found a novel way to use software to teach a human-like robotic hand new tasks, a discovery that could eventually make it more economical to…

Image: Google Brain In the image above, there's a picture of a cat on the left. On the right, can you tell whether it's a picture of the same cat, or a picture of a similar looking dog? The difference between the two pictures is that the…

Photo: Delmaine Donson/Getty Images In December, Bloomberg reported that desperate demand for software engineers who know how to build artificial intelligence systems turned a previously low-key academic event “into a recruiting frenzy…

Photo-illustration: Rima Arnaout Webvamp Rima Arnaout wants to be clear: The AI she created to analyze heart scans, which easily outperformed human experts on its task, is not ready to replace cardiologists.  It was a limited task, she…