Well, AI, How do You Explain That?!
AI explainability is one of the most significant barriers to its adoption — but revealing the logic can take the human-machine relationship to the next level. The AI boom is …
Create Symbiotic Relationships with AI in Business
Knowingly or unknowingly we are all using artificial intelligence or AI. There is a combination of always-on devices, cloud and edge computing, and APIs in our everyday lives and business …
Covid-19, Jobs, Data and Machine Learning
Americans worry machine learning and artificial intelligence are a threat to their livelihoods. But the global pandemic demonstrates that these data technologies are essential to improving lives. A recent survey …
Automatic signature verification software threatens to disenfranchise U.S. voters
As of early October, more than 84.2 million absentee ballots had been requested or sent to U.S. voters in 47 states and the District of Columbia ahead of the U.S …
Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals
AI researchers developing reinforcement learning agents could learn a lot from animals. That’s according to recent analysis by Google’s DeepMind, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge researchers assessing AI …
Researchers design virtual environment to spur development of helpful home robots
Without much prior experience, kids can recognize other people’s intentions and come up with plans to help them achieve their goals, even in novel scenarios. By contrast, even the most …
Deep Science: Alzheimer’s screening, forest-mapping drones, machine learning in space, more
Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry …
AI Weekly: Constructive ways to take power back from Big Tech
Facebook launched an independent oversight board and recommitted to privacy reforms this week, but after years of promises made and broken, nobody seems convinced that real change is afoot. The …
Amazon embraces end-to-end models to improve Alexa’s speech recognition
Amazon’s Alexa is getting better at recognizing who’s speaking and what they’re speaking about, understanding words through on-device techniques, and leveraging models trained without needing human review. That’s according to …
AI researchers urge tech go beyond scale to address systemic social issues
For a long time, the definition of success for startups and Big Tech companies alike has been synonymous with three words: hockey stick growth. To scale is to be capable …