Can AI Predict the 2018 World Cup Winner?
The 2018 FIFA World Cup began a few days ago. It might be easy to know which teams are more likely to advance over others right now. But as the tournament reaches the semifinals and finals, the winning team could be anyone’s guess. Fortunately, now we have artificial intelligence (AI) to give us a clearer […]
MIT Created a Psychopath AI to Demonstrate the Dangers of Bias
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to make an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm into a psychopath. Why? For science! Specifically, the AI is being used to demonstrate the dangers of introducing biases to AI. You Are What You Eat MIT researchers Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan, and Pinar Yanardag trained the algorithm by […]
Google Ends Involvement With Controversial U.S. Government Project
Due to backlash from employees and academia, Google has decided to pull out of its involvement with Project Maven, a controversial project that would help the U.S. government strengthen its drone surveillance with artificial intelligence (AI). Do the Right Thing “Don’t be evil” was a motto used within Google’s corporate code of conduct for quite […]
U.S.-Mexico Border Security Is Testing Facial Recognition
We recently wrote about Amazon’s Rekognition being sold to local law enforcement. This isn’t a one-off case; security teams around the world will implement some type of facial recognition within the next five to ten years. But the technology is still far from perfect. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is one of the most […]
What Is Google’s Plan to Cash in on China?
Google wants in on China’s burgeoning tech scene. The world’s largest country is going through a sort of tech renaissance; companies like Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, and Huawei are fostering rapid growth in a variety of areas such as AI development and the Internet of Things. While its strategy has been low-profile, Google has undoubtedly set […]
Can the U.S. Military Stop Deepfakes and Other AI Tricks?
If you haven’t seen the above video before, it was probably quite a shock to hear some of the statements coming out of Barack Obama’s mouth. Let’s face it, AI development has reached a point where it can get downright scary. Consider this technology in our current political climate. It wasn’t so long ago when […]
Would You Trust Facebook With Your Most Intimate Photos?
Once you put something on the Internet, it’s extremely difficult to remove it. Facebook is launching a program to deal with this problem, specifically to tackle the issue of revenge pornography. All you have to do to participate is share the compromising photos of yourself with the social media giant. A Risqué Compromise Sharing revenge […]
AI Means Business — But What Does It Mean for Yours?
It’s not exactly a secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world. In fact, current developments in AI are already doing that every day. But just what exactly does the future of AI hold in store for business? Mazdak Rezvani, the CEO of Chatkit, an AI conversation marketing platform, dives into this […]
These AI-Powered Robot Bees Could Save Insects from Extinction
Researchers from London, Edinburgh, and Italy are working together to design and develop AI robot bees that could help our environment and several endangered species of bees. The project, dubbed FOCAS (for Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems), has spanned five years of research. The scientists hope to study how social animals communicate with the swarms of robot bees. […]
Facebook Removed 583 Million Fake Accounts Since the Start of 2018
Facebook’s recent embroilment with Cambridge Analytica has brought to light the importance of data privacy and transparency from tech giants like Google, Twitter, and Apple. No company is safe from consumer scrutiny, and that has been pushing tech companies to make changes in operations, data storage, privacy policies, and more variables surrounding user data. One […]