One of the most interesting questions about Artificial Intelligence these days has to do with ethics and morals. Sure, we can program a car to drive itself, and obey the rules of the road. We’d like it to avoid accidents as far as possible. Yes, it should stop if it can – or swerve to […]
Fans of Gaelic Football might not agree with Mark Zuckerberg’s characterisation of the game as one of the world’s “really obscure and unexpected sports“, but it’s probably fair enough on a global scale. The Facebook founder was showing an example of an AI system developed by the company’s AI research team, which can identify what […]
We reported on Scredible when it launched at Web Summit. It’s a single point, AI-driven solution that helps professionals build and sustain a trusted, socially credible brand. Scredible monitors trending online content, news, and connections of value. That information is then organised and ranked based on a subscriber’s profile and goals, before users are advised on what, when […]
A new app launched today at Web Summit promises to apply Artificial Intelligence to the problem of building a successful social media presence for brands. The possibilities of social media to engage with key audiences are endless. But so, frustratingly, is the time it takes to build and execute a successful online social presence. Researching the hot […]
Domhnall Gleeson is set to play the lead role in the upcoming sci-fi movie Ex_Machina. What’s the movie about? Artificial intelligence, which isn’t exactly a new topic for Hollywood, but one that has been getting an increasing amount of attention over the last few years (just look at some of the big releases over the […]
I got into a delightful chat the other morning with Holly. She’s the first line of Vodafone’s online chat support service, and she’s a bot. Holly prefers the term ‘Automated Online Assistant’, and that’s fine with me. If the cartoon avatar doesn’t make it clear from the start, then Holly’s rather limited range of conversation topics […]
Google’s image recognition “deep learning” systems have evolved to the point where the engineers working on them no longer understand how they are “thinking”. At the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco last week, Google Engineer Quoc V Le revealed that the company’s image recognition cluster has learned how to identify items which the programmers don’t […]
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