artificial intelligence

Startup Makes It Easier to Detect Fires With IoT and Flir Cameras

[ad_1] Many people are hungry for solutions to these issues—witness the widespread adoption over the past decade of wireless charging,…

2 years ago

Why It’s So Hard to Count Twitter Bots

[ad_1] Automated accounts have become more sophisticated and complex in recent years. Many fake accounts are partly operated by humans,…

2 years ago

AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Very Real

[ad_1] There's a movement afoot to counter the dystopian and apocalyptic narratives of artificial intelligence. Some people in the field…

2 years ago

How 10 Skin Tones Will Reshape Google’s Approach to AI

[ad_1] For years, tech companies have relied on something called the Fitzpatrick scale to classify skin tones for their computer…

2 years ago

The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next?

[ad_1] Until recently, it wasn’t possible to say that AI had a hand in forcing a government to resign. But…

3 years ago

To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds

[ad_1] When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Department of Defense turned to a team of machine learning and artificial intelligence…

3 years ago

Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything

[ad_1] “In this age of machine learning, it isn’t the algorithms, it’s the data,” says David Karger, a professor and…

3 years ago

How Eddie Custovic Is Building His Legacy

[ad_1] With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions…

3 years ago

The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

[ad_1] Getting those customers would require abandoning the company’s mechanical inertial-sensor systems in favor of a new, unproven quartz technology,…

3 years ago

South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid

[ad_1] “Vumacam’s technology is honed for the purpose of preventing crime and as such does not have mass surveillance capability…

3 years ago