‘We want diverse backgrounds in AI, so everyone brings their different perspectives’: TheAcademy.Ai
Spain's TheAcademy.ai sees young startup founders, doctors, bankers, and people with diverse backgrounds wanting to learn the role of AI...
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Tech ‘should bring collective intelligence to issues that are common to us all’
From dictionaries and religious texts to Wikipedia, YouTube, IMDB and Quora, our collective intelligence allows us to share knowledge at...
AI academy asks students to sign ethical contract akin to Hippocratic Oath
An AI academy for developers in Barcelona, Spain asks that all of its students sign an ethical contract similar to...
AI facilitates improved user experience for shoppers
The advent of ecommerce has revolutionized people's shopping experience in recent times. Improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to...
How AI is helping combat deforestation
A world without rainforests is virtually incomprehensible. Forests cover around 30 percent of the planet’s land area, yet deforestation continues...
When chatbots become more than just machines
Whether they’re picking up a complaint from the bank, collecting and sorting job applications, or helping you order a pizza,...
SingularityNET launches decentralized AI marketplace
SingularityNET, a cutting edge platform for the creation, distribution and monetization of artificial intelligence (AI) services, has launched its decentralized...
‘We paid little attention to vulnerabilities in machine learning platforms’: DARPA
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"We’ve rushed ahead, paying little attention to vulnerabilities inherent in machine learning platforms – particularly in terms of altering, corrupting...
White House AI strategy focuses on jobs, innovation, civil liberties
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on maintaining American leadership in AI with a focus on innovation, civil...
Bioengineering soldiers for smart, adaptive wound recovery
Beneath a blizzard of buzzwords surrounding cutting edge medical treatments, a new defense research program is bioengineering soldiers for smart...
Unclassified: DoD cloud strategy to focus on AI adoption
The US Department of Defense (DoD) unveils its cloud initiative strategy for migrating its computing and storage functions to the...
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A program to keep Prometheus out of machine learning systems
Just as Prometheus was a liberator of humankind by bringing the flame of knowledge to humanity by defying the gods,...
The Übermensch in the Cuckoo’s Nest: Malware in AI-human Hybrids
Superhuman powers, shared memories, and the end of all disease are promising hopes coming out of brain-computer interface technology research,...
‘AI defense development may gain insight from biological immune systems’: DARPA
"Novel adversarial AI defense development may gain insight and inspiration from biological systems, such as the immune system and its...
How the US intelligence community will tackle technological threats: NIS report
US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel R. Coats releases the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), highlighting technological threats and...
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‘Authoritarianism is easier in a world of total visibility’: WEF report
Weather wars, authoritarian surveillance, social control, and more are "Future Shocks" that could fundamentally destabilize the world as we know...
Tech arms race with China blurs ‘physical, digital, biological lines’: WEF
Speaking at the 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe says that the blurring...
Uncovering human trafficking with tech, typologies, trails of money
Human trafficking claims some 25 million victims worldwide, but analysts are hard at work uncovering these illegal operations through state...
Nature is intelligent: Pentagon looks to insects for AI biomimicry design
Whether you believe in intelligent design or not, the Pentagon's research and funding arm believes in it -- so much...
DARPA looks to predict future real-world events with AI
DARPA is looking for AI projects that can understand what's going on in the world and then use that understanding to...
