AI is brilliant in the lab but pants in real life
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Somestimes accuracy is not everything 

A study from Google Health -- the first to look at the impact of a deep-learning tool in real clinical settings -- reveals that even the most accurate AIs can actually make things worse if not tailored to the clinical environments in which they will work.

Nvidia GTC Keynote set for May 14
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 10:30

Nvidia GTC Keynote set for May 14


Get Amped 

Roughly two months after the original GTC 2020 schedule, Nvidia is ready to host the GTC 2020 spring keynote. The choice of words "Get Amped” in the press release gives you an idea that 7nm Ampere might get released at that time.  

AI can spot a bear bot at 20 paces
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Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:37

AI can spot a bear bot at 20 paces


Humans smell

AI is being used to spot the difference between human users and fake accounts on Twitter.

Ai works out who dung it
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Monday, 20 April 2020 12:24

Ai works out who dung it


Do we blame it on the dog?

Researchers have developed a new machine-learning algorithm that can determine whether a human or a dog deposited ancient excrement.

Microsoft uses AI to find bugs
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Friday, 17 April 2020 10:56

Microsoft uses AI to find bugs


Will open source it

Software King of the World Microsoft has developed a system that it claims correctly distinguishes between security and non-security software bugs 99 percent of the time, and that accurately identifies the critical, high-priority security bugs on average 97 percent of the time.

AI starting to evolve
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Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:47

AI starting to evolve


Just as humanity is taking a couple of steps back

Just as humanity is fighting its way to the dark ages, artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving so it does not need humans any more.

Huawei working on an AI GPU
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Saturday, 11 April 2020 10:41

Huawei working on an AI GPU


As Apple settled with Imagination

Huawei, for the most part, relies on ARM IP. It  uses the ARM Cortex CPU and Mali GPU cores for its SoCs. The company has high AI aspirations with its Ascend series of chips. Now recent rumors point out that the Chinese giant is setting up a GPU research center in South Korea and focuses on AI and datacenter.

Intel involved in AI defence programme
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Friday, 10 April 2020 11:11

Intel involved in AI defence programme


Has it never seen Wargames?

Chipzilla and Georgia Tech are spearheading Pentagon-backed efforts to defend against cyber-attacks against self-driving cars, facial recognition and weapons detection software.

Boffins create open source AI object detector
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Chinese and Volish collaboration

A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers have open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT).

AI can't manage some things
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Thursday, 02 April 2020 10:59

AI can't manage some things


Still a role for humans

It appears that AI is as accurate as a tarot reader when it comes to predicting some subjects.