Elon Musk warns that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to robot death squads prowling the streets. Nearly three-quarters of Americans fret that AI could take away jobs. More than half of U.S. citizens are more concerned about AI’s impact on employment than they are about immigration or offshoring. So why then do 79 percent of...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) may become the best weapon against AI-enhancing drugs, with word that the World Anti-Doping Agency is planning to use AI pattern-recognition technology to detect signs of violations among athletes. WADA will use AI algorithms to search the repositories of data gathered by global anti-doping bodies, according to a report from iNews. The...
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Market research firms use a range of techniques to gauge consumer views—such as survey forms and phone interviews. However, such methods often present an incomplete and inaccurate picture, with consumer responses reflecting their views of just one moment in time—or indicating their aspirations rather than the realities of their views and habits. However, one startup...
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Today’s parents seem to use their smartphone cameras to photograph every second of their babies’ lives. However, once these pictures are taken, they often are forgotten—stored away on cell phones in a format that’s disorganized and difficult to access and enjoy. However, one startup thinks it has found a way to bring these photos back...
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It is a sign of the times that in 2018, the UK Government established a new unit to tackle fake news, and every day seems to reveal more about the dirty tricks played by companies like Cambridge Analytica, including deliberately spreading misinformation, to try and influence electorates in favour of whoever happens to be paying them. This...
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Another school shooting. Another round of demands for answers. Another debate over the same set of options—from gun control to arming teachers, to improving the mental healthcare system. The End Result: Still More School Shootings. However, a real solution to this crisis may be within reach due to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...
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NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence technology (AI) is starting to make inroads into the oil and gas business, with the company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) now being used to boost productivity and reduce the costs of finding, extracting, processing and transporting fossil fuels. In 2018, NIVIDA has announced two partnerships that involve using GPUs and related technologies...
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Most people have a way of building their own machine learning textual classifiers; you can use cloud APIs, learn Tensorflow or roll your own, or use Machine Box. As founder of the latter, it won’t surprise you to learn that in this article I am going to tackle log data using Classificationbox — a Docker container that...
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Artificial intelligence chips will be integrated into all new smartphones within five years, as the focus in the wireless business shifts away from flashy hardware features and toward innovations designed to promote ease of use and increased functionality, according to Deloitte. In 2017, the first year that high-end smartphones began integrating artificial intelligence chips, 300...
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The imgclass tool lets you take a folder full of images, and teach a classifier that you can use to automatically classify future images. It works by creating a model and posting 80% of your example images toClassificationbox, which then learns what various classes of images look like, and what their shared characteristics are. The remaining images...
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