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Microsoft Acquires Bonsai to Build End-to-End AI Solution

Microsoft just acquired Bonsai, a startup focused on artificial intelligence research. Its novel system is going to be deployed atop the...

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Science

Watch an IBM AI Successfully Debate Humans

AI defeated famous chess masters and Go players, took over classic Atari games and can now hold its own in an actual...

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Machines

IBM Summit Is The World’s Most Powerful AI Machine

You need gargantuan computing power? IBM’s got you covered with its newest machine, the Summit. The supercomputer was unveiled Friday at the...

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Security

AI Researchers Create ‘Privacy Filter’ That Impairs Facial Recognition Software

Professor Parham Aarabi and graduate student Avishek Bose from U of T Engineering have managed to create an algorithm that disrupts facial...

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Machines

Nvidia Launches the Isaac Platform for Robot Training

Isaac and the Jetson Xavier are Nvidia’s newest products. They are a new developer platform and AI computer, both of them designed...

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Machines

MIT’s Deranged AI Raises Questions about Data Bias

A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created an AI that was trained with data from the, let’s say, murkier...

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Machines

Angelina, the AI That Makes Games

Artificial intelligence is among the most exciting fields of technology these days. Autonomous cars, voice assistants, facial recognition: all of them and...

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Misc

Leaked Google Emails Show Competition for Pentagon Contract and More

In March, about a dozen Google employees chose to resign in protest to the company’s agreement with the Pentagon, which allowed them...

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Vehicles

AI Allows Soldiers To Learn Faster in Combat

Scientists at the U.S Army Research Laboratory are working on improving the rate of learning for soldiers. Their aim is to help...

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Security

Congress Wants Answers About Amazon Rekognition

Earlier this week we reported on Amazon’s controversial face-recognition technology (Rekognition) that is being used by law enforcement. Civil rights organizations are unhappy...

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Smart devices

Alexa Sent User’s Conversation to Random Contact

Amazon was contacted recently by a family in Portland to investigate their Alexa device. The family claims Alexa recorded a private conversation...

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Security

US Military Funds Project to Catch Deepfakes

This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will gather the world’s leading digital forensics experts to compete against each other in...

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Security

Civil Rights Organizations Unite to Stop the Use of Amazon Face Recognition

Civil rights organizations are forcing Amazon to stop selling its artificial intelligence (AI) software to government agencies for fear that this software...