Introduction Most people are unaware when they confront the distorted letters and digits of CAPTCHAs in their day-to-day usage of web services that they’re being subjected to a reverse Turing test of sorts — one where the machine seeks to confirm your humanity. The Turing test, of...
After feats like the grand-master chess (remember Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov), Rubik’s Cube, Jeopardy, Space X’s space-borne supercomputer; we should have gotten used to being surprised by machines. But then comes an attempt to equip computers with the ability to ‘truly understand...
From smarter registration and tracking of transferred crypto-asset transactions to using an AI application (that researchers from the University of Valladolid have been focusing on) which generates early warning systems and traces probability of corruption; Spain is tightening its grip on...
What if someone could cut the queue that Amazon is leading? That too, one which is right on the edge of retail and worth billions of dollars- the automated grocery shop? It is happening. Microsoft is pitting itself against its arch-rival in cloud business in a new game. One that Amazon started in...
Soon, some North Carolina State University researchers will get busy developing control systems for nuclear power plants that lean heavily on AI (Artificial Intelligence). Thanks to a $3.4 million grant from the federal government (that is just one of the $23.9 million that ARPA-E, the U.S...
Getting extra points or cash-backs when one swipes cards for fuel, travel, hotels etc. is not a surprise anymore. But blockchain and AI can be soon making these rewards deeper and smarter. Card-industry players were struggling with ways to target individual items on a store’s shelf as merchants’...
The Singapore government is convening a council to advise it on the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data. Fairness, transparency and the ability to explain an AI (Artificial Intelligence)’s decision – These questions would keep a new council occupied as experts here work on ensuring...
At the AI summit where 34 tech giants came together, technology policy man for Trump, Michael Kratsios has been, reportedly, assuring technology giants like Google, Intel, Nvidia and Apple that AI innovation would not be stifled with regulatory red-tape. While focus on skills and research-funding...
AI researchers are simply stumbling in the dark. ML is still a Black Box. For the interpretability problem is not allowing us to see how a given AI came to its conclusions. Ali Rahimi, an AI-researcher in California, finds company in François Chollet, a computer scientist at Google in Mountain...
