One day a few years ago, while talking to a journalist in her office, Harvard computer science professor Latanya Sweeney typed her name into Google’s search bar to pull up a study. As results filled in, the page also brought up an alarming advertisement:
2022-09-09
Zeroth is an accelerator program that is out to fix the lack of talent, and investment options, for artificial intelligence (AI) in Asia, and it has just opened applications for its second program which takes place in Tokyo, Japan, in late
2022-09-08
Experts say robotics will soon replace the work now being done by humans. If you have seen the latest Wolverine movie, Logan, you might have noticed a crucial scene where automated trucks speed up and down the highways of the United States. Far-fetched?
2022-09-06
Truly understanding artificial intelligence is rare. AI doesn’t think in concepts and images the way humans do. It has individual goals, like to preserve humankind as technology’s caretakers, or to dismantle complex systems. And in the sci-fi thriller
2022-09-02
Researchers and enterprise want to build deep learning neural networks that can explain their actions to humans At a demonstration of Amazon Web Services' new artificial intelligence image recognition tool last week, the deep learning analysis calculated
2022-08-26
Manufacturing is getting smart. Companies are increasingly using sensors and wireless technologies to capture data at all stages of a product's life. These range from material properties and the temperatures and vibrations of equipment to the logistics of
2022-08-23
Say you have a thousand columns and a million rows in your data set. Whichever way you look at it – small, medium or big data – you won’t be able to actually look at it. Zoom it in or out. Fit it into one screen. Blame human nature but most of us
2022-08-23
Our planet is being swept by a tsunami of data, which continues to surge as connected people and devices produce ever more. According to IDC’s Digital Universe update, the number of connected devices is projected to expand from less than 20 billion today to
2022-08-16
In this episode of theO’Reilly Data Show, I spoke with Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics. Eggers’ involvement with AI dates back to her days as a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Most recently she has been helping companies across many
2022-08-16
