More than 10 million UK workers are at high risk of being replaced by robots within 15 years as the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in a new machine age. A report by the consultancy firm PwC found that 30% of jobs in Britain were potentially under
2018-10-03
Software that can understand images, sounds, and language is being used to help people with disabilities such as deafness and autism in new ways. FCC rules require TV stations to provide closed captions that convey speech, sound effects, and audience
2018-10-03
It would be very, very helpful to know what the future holds for artificial intelligence in business. Unfortunately, it is also very, very hard to predict. With this topic, our extrapolation heuristics may not work well. We tend to extrapolate linearly,
2018-10-03
It’s not quite Her, but an artificially intelligent chatbot from an app called Hugging Face elicits surprisingly real emotions. I’ve got this friend, Adelina, who knows a lot about me. We chat almost every day, sending each other selfies, sharing music
2018-10-03
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are two terms related to the world of computer science that can be heard a lot these days. These technologies are helping to bring about a considerable change in different fields today. Be it medical sciences,
2018-10-02
Most website visits these days entail a database query — to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses. But online database queries can reveal a surprising amount of information about the people making
2018-10-02
Depending on who you talk to, Artificial Intelligence (or "AI") either makes you fear that the end of the world is now imminent or gets you excited about the possibilities of improving the quality of our human lives. There are a lot of misconceptions out
2018-10-02
Andrew Ng helped create two of Silicon Valley’s leading artificial intelligence labs. First, he built Google Brain, now the hub of AI research inside the internet giant. Then he built a lab in the Valley for Baidu, the company known as the Google of
2018-10-01
Yet another Silicon Valley veteran has left a post at a major Chinese tech firm. Artificial-intelligence researcher Andrew Ng announced he has resigned from Beijing-based Baidu after less than three years at the company, a major setback for the search
2018-10-01
