Artificial intelligence is in danger of becoming too male, says a new study
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying tumours in medical scans better than human radiologists, and increasing...
Hype and hysteria around AI could set it back by decades
Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI...
People who spread deepfakes believe their lies contain deeper truths
The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO,...
When will voice assistants understand what we are saying? Probably quite long.
Imagine a world in which Siri always understands you, Google Translate works perfectly, and the two of them create something akin to a Doctor...
A self-taught AI is beating humans in a multiplayer game for the first time
Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of...
Gamers are using machine learning to navigate complex video games
Some of the world’s most popular video games track your activity as you play – but they’re not just gathering data for business or...
An AI has spontaneously developed a human-like number sense
Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill,...
Does AI threaten democracy?
U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities. ., but...
What is quantum machine learning?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines’ capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider “intelligence”. This process is being driven by the...
What robots and AI mean for higher education
The number of robots around the world is increasing rapidly. And it’s said that automation will threatening more than 800m jobs worldwide by 2030. In...
