The inability to interact with traffic policemen is one of the main factors hindering the development of autonomous transport in many countries of the world where robotic vehicles are being actively tested. In the US, representatives of development companies are actively cooperating with the police to solve this problem. In Read more…
French researcher Yann LeCun advises to watch the smartphone market – mobile devices will become the test ground for new technologies in the field of AI. Developers have to give the algorithms common sense, and engineers – to improve the hardware. Vacuum cleaners will become smarter Although the head of Read more…
The company, founded to fight fraudsters on dating sites, is ready to give battle to the new threat – fake videos with the participation of politicians and celebrities and fake photos. However, not everyone is sure that such an important task should be assigned to private owners. An increasing number Read more…
One of the largest US banks annually spends $8 billion on new technological solutions. The management does not hide: the development will allow to automate part of the processes and reduce staff. Citi call center employees are no longer needed, operators are next in line. The head of the Citigroup Read more…
The principle of “black box” is not suitable for science, according to statisticians from Rice University. The accuracy and reproducibility of all scientific discoveries made using machine learning technology is questionable. Computers lack one crucial human skill. A presentation on the prospects for the use of AI in scientific research Read more…
Economists at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Boston have concluded that AI will make the most significant contribution through a new method of knowledge creation. It transforms the very nature of the innovation process and the work of scientists and engineers. The main potential of AI is not in Read more…
The company developing breakthrough AI technologies has been left without one of its co-founders. Musk named two reasons for parting. One of them is the disagreement with the plans of the team, which recently showed an algorithm for writing the perfect fake news. The organization OpenAI was founded in 2016 Read more…
The New York Times tells how AI helpers and compiler bots are used in major US editions. They are called “modest assistants”, but they have more and more work amid massive layoffs of human journalists. Robots reporters, unlike people, have more and more work. Recently the British Guardian published the Read more…
Police departments in various cities in the United States and Great Britain secretly signed contracts with PredPol, the developer of an ambiguous and untested crime prediction program. This fact was noticed by Motherboard journalists, who analyzed documents received on the basis of archival requests, in particular, contracts, instructions and program Read more…
Overconfidence of people prevents the spread of artificial intelligence. This conclusion was made by military scientists who wanted to understand how useful artificial intelligence would be on the battlefield. The US Army continues to modernize its armed forces and is spending significant resources on the development of machine learning algorithms Read more…