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
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
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
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
Still a role for humans
It appears that AI is as accurate as a tarot reader when it comes to predicting some subjects.
Vatican AI conference was attended by coronavirus
Robot Divine intelligence might have smited Church, Microsoft and IBM
An AI conference in the Vatican included high ranking clergy, executives from Microsoft and IBM and a bloke who had the coronavirus.
Putin’s daughter is head of AI at Moscow State University
Not bad for an acrobatic rock’n’roll dancer
Katerina Tikhonova, the youngest daughter of Russian President Tsar Vladimir Putin, was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.
Slap-happy Pope to bless AI policy
Backed by IBM and Microsoft
Vatican officials will release principles promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI), with the backing of Microsoft and IBM as the first two technology industry sponsors.
AI can be fooled by playing with words
Boffins come up with text fooler
Changing a single word in your resume can fool AI screening software into classifying you as a person with deep convictions instead of a person with a long list of convictions.
AI might save humans after all
Boffins asks Hal to sort out antibiotic problems
While people worry about AI taking over the world and killing humans, it looks like it has come up with a powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world.
