AI
Campaign launched to ban “Gender recognition tech” due to its implications for trans individuals
Dangers posed by facial recognition like mass surveillance and mistaken identity have been widely discussed in recent years. But digital rights groups say an equally…
Microsoft to buy AI firm Nuance for about $16 billion
Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire speech-recognition company Nuance Communications, according to a source quoted by CNBC. A transaction could be signed as…
AI-powered app can detect COVID-19 with 80% accuracy using only a person’s voice
Companies are increasingly investing in developing solutions to pre-screen people using technologies such as voice and mobile apps to predict if someone has COVID-19. In…
Facebook uses one billion Instagram users’ photos to train its A.I
As per a blog post published by Facebook AI, one billion Instagram photos were used to train its AI-based SEER algorithm (an abbreviation of self-supervised)…
Seeing is no longer believing. Viral Tom Cruise deepfakes mark the beginning of the era of Deepfakes raising widespread global alarm
Have you seen Tom cruise tripping while walking through a clothing store, golfing, or doing a magic trick on TikTok and wondered what’s up with…
Artificial Intelligence surprises experts by writing a winning college paper
Artificial Intelligence has delivered results in a lot of areas; including medicine, defense, law enforcement, and education. But, in an unprecedented development, it has emerged…
Is AI the future of Real Estate post-COVID-19?
Where the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic relegated every business around the world; with advisories of minimal human interaction resonating everywhere, it is ‘technology’ that…
You may have to play and win video games to land jobs. Here is how
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are not just two buzzwords but technologies that continue to produce a profound impact on our lives as they evolve.…
These AIs were designed to read sentences, but they can also catch coronavirus mutations
Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms have played a tremendous role in analyzing text sentiment and extracting meaning, hence why they have spurred the development of…
Should a self-driving car kill a grandmother or an infant?
Ethical problems like the infamous “trolley problem” have always been a part of ethical discussions since they were first thought up but these problems have…
Relive your memories in 3D using Google Photo’s new AI
Google has just unveiled a new feature that it will be launching on the Google Photos platform over the next month. The feature turns a…
Machines may come alive as blueprints for machine consciousness are made by scientists
Terminator seemed like something from the future when it first aired in 1984 but as time progressed people started believing that it might actually be…
Pakistani researchers develop AI system that detects COVID-19 in under a minute
Pakistani scientists have developed a software based on artificial intelligence that can help detect COVID-19 within a minute. The news was broken by Science Diplomacy…
