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08/16/2019

The use of AI to help manage day-to-day finances is becoming commonplace as programs learn to detect fraud, make data-related decisions, select suitable insurance policies, and more:

Data science is increasingly being used to compare products, find deals and give tailored guidance

08/01/2019

Back in 2018, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it would invest up to $2 billion over the course of five years toward the advancement of AI. The federal government then launched AI.gov which outlines five principles that this initiative follows also making it easier to access information on all current AI projects.

Learn more about what our government is doing here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ai/ai-american-values/

The AI technologies we develop must reflect our fundamental American values and devotion to helping people.

07/24/2019

What countries are leading the race in Artificial Intelligence?

Spread the loveArtificial intelligence recognizes faces, delivers better online search results, and steers autonomous cars. The AI trend has been hailed as the next industrial revolution. While AI transforms the world beyond recognition, six countries are taking the lead in the AI race. • China ha...

07/23/2019

Britain’s £50 note will honor computing pioneer Alan Turing, a mathematician and computer pioneer whose reputation was overshadowed by a conviction under Britain’s Victorian laws against homosexuality. The indispensable work he did during WWII, including breaking the German Enigma machine, remained a secret until decades later.

Alan Turing will be the next face on the £50 note the Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, announced today (Monday, 15 July). Making the announcement at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, the Governor also revealed the imagery depicting Alan Turing and his work that will be used for t...

07/23/2019

Because who doesn't love good food:

Kitchen disruption: better food through artificial intelligence

07/22/2019

Pluribus, an artificial intelligence program developed by Carnegie Mellon, beat leading professionals in 6-person poker, marking a major milestone in the development of AI:

An artificial intelligence program has defeated leading professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker, the world's most popular form of poker.

07/18/2019

More food for thought from Jonnie Penn...

"To understand the impact AI will have on our lives, it is vital to appreciate the context in which the field was established"

Artificial intelligence was born of organisational decision-making and state power; it needs human ethics, says Jonnie Penn of the University of Cambridge

07/17/2019

“Consciousness is such an unknown thing... What makes you curious? What makes you creative? Humans have been trying to figure it out for millennia and we’re still trying.”

Computer scientist and special projects supervisor, Mark Sagar has worked on the facial motion capture technology in moves including Hong Kong and Avatar. Now, his New Zealand-based lab is taking virtual assistants and endowing them with real intelligence:

A small New Zealand lab is attempting to build “digital humans” that can learn, feel, and even remember us.

07/15/2019

“Ask not only how artificial intelligence will change society, but how society will change artificial intelligence.”

Jonnie Penn is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sought-after keynote speaker, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and a Rausing, Williamson and Lipton Trust doctoral scholar researching artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge. In this talk, he compares Central Park to AI and offers suggestions on how we can collectively handle the future of AI:

Jonathan Penn compares AI to Central Park and gives some ideas of how we can collectively handle the future of AI. He recognizes that the development of AI has and will continue to raise many new challenges. However, he shows how this is the right time to develop it and he gives some guidelines. Jon...

07/15/2019

Artificial Intelligence is a solution for all 💡

07/15/2019

How artificial intelligence is helping digital marketing professionals shape strategy and build influence:

How artificial intelligence is helping digital marketing professionals shape strategy and build influence

07/11/2019

“Machine intelligence presents us with an opportunity to significantly improve the delivery of health care, particularly in high-disease or low-resource settings.”

AI platforms like Gracie are allowing doctors to take better care of their patients by aiding in diagnoses & taking away the burden of mundane tasks:

Several new studies have shown that computers can outperform doctors in cancer screenings and disease diagnoses. What does that mean for newly trained radiologists and pathologists?