Can Bold Bets Keep the US Ahead of China in the AI Race?
Research shows that China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development is picking up at an unprecedented pace. Can the United States keep up with ambitious, out-there ideas? On Track to Overtake the US Last June, Apple and Google sponsored an academic contest at the world’s premier computer vision conference. The tech titans wanted to see if algorithms […]
Can the United States Win the AI Race?
The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) has piqued the interest of many countries such as the United States, Russia, and China. Now, they’re all in a race to become the foremost authority in the technology. Recently, the US Pentagon released an unclassified version of its AI strategy—but will these plans be enough to outpace the […]
Facing the Fax: The U.S. Healthcare System Is in a State of Emergency
Recently, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) banned the purchase of new fax machines for its facilities. It also announced that it wants fax completely phased out by the spring of 2020. Roughly 8,000 fax machines are still being used in the country’s healthcare system, a figure that its Royal College of Surgeons has called “absurd.” […]
Should There Be Restrictions on U.S. AI Exports?
AI is changing industries all over the world. Want to know what it can do for your business? Read our Free Machine Learning Whitepaper right now! The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) is too big for governments to ignore. The U.S. Department of Commerce is considering imposing national security restrictions on the technology. But what may be […]
How China Hacked Amazon, Apple, and Many More With a Tiny Chip
China’s garnered plenty of media attention lately, mostly in relation to the controversy surrounding Google’s censored search engine for the country. But now, there’s a new unsettling story to steal the spotlight. It was recently discovered that motherboards shipped from China for use by Apple and Amazon had a tiny microchip on them. This hack […]
Is It Time to Regulate AI-Fueled Facial Recognition?
Facial recognition is blooming; it’s already used in airports and police stations, on China’s streets, and as training data for new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. As AI developers continue applying the technology to facial recognition, it’s becoming readily apparent that the potential for abuse is growing as well. So why isn’t there any regulation in place? […]
Google Wanted to Change China, but is China Changing Google?
In the early days of Google, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin probably didn’t ever imagine that their main motto, “Don’t be evil,” would be the center of controversy 20 years later. In 2004, the founders told investors at Google’s initial public offering (IPO), “Google is not a conventional company,” and added that they planned to […]