Algorithms workers can’t see are increasingly pulling the management strings
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001 A Space Odyssey has...
New research shows five ways in which deepfakes are brilliant business opportunities
A visitor to The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida presses a doorbell beside a dark life-sized screen. A darkened figure wearing a dapper...
Will artificial intelligence ever rival human creativity?
The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not because the invention was not novel...
Workplace surveillance is becoming the norm; an expert explains a realistic way of handling...
Workplace surveillance sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but we are having to get used to it. In a sign of the times, the...
Meet the Xenobot: World’s first living, programmable organism
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”.
This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their...
Artificial intelligence can now read human emotions. Should it?
In its annual report, the AI Now Institute, an interdisciplinary research center studying the societal implications of artificial intelligence, called for a ban on technology...
Will AI take over humans? Quantum theory proposes otherwise
Will artificial intelligence one day surpass human thinking? The rapid progress of AI, coupled with our standard fear of machines, has raised concerns that its abilities will...
The environmental cost of the digital economy
Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to...
How will quantum fintech impact mainstream finance?
The evolution of modern finance was closely linked to the evolution of computers, communications, and financial mathematics. Two main changes happened in the 1970s...
Is the US losing the AI arms race?
The U.S. government, long a proponent of advancing technology for military purposes, sees artificial intelligence as key to the next generation of fighting tools.
Several recent...
