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Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
Cybersecurity missteps during corporate Digital Transformation efforts can lead to digital breaches.
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GPT-3: AI Game-changer or Environmental Disaster?
The tech giants' latest machine-learning system comes with both ethical and environmental costs.
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Instant Videos: Just Add Text
Artificial intelligence software can create a video montage from a few typed words.
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This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
Researchers at the University of Chicago want you to be able to post selfies without worrying that the next Clearview AI will use them to identify you.
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AI Identifies Prostate Cancer With Near-Perfect Accuracy
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence program to recognize and characterize prostate cancer, achieving the highest accuracy rate to date.
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AI Is All the Rage. So Why Aren’t More Businesses Using It?
A big study by the U.S. Census Bureau finds that only about 9% of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now.
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Machine Learning Reveals Recipe for Building Artificial Proteins
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have created a process that uses big data to design new proteins.
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Breaking Artificial Intelligence and How to Fix It
Among the many things the coronavirus outbreak has highlighted is how fragile our artificial intelligence systems are. We need new approaches to ensure our AI systems...
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How AI Systems Use Mad Libs to Teach Themselves Grammar
Artificial intelligence researchers at Stanford University have found that advanced AI systems can work out linguistic principles like grammar by themselves.
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New Zealand Claims World First in Setting Standards for Government Use of Algorithms
New Zealand's Statistics minister says the new charter on algorithms is an 'important part of building public trust."
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Face Masks are Thwarting Even the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms, Study Finds
Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Scence and Technology found that face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail as much as 50% of...
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The Impact of AI on Organizations
Implementing artificial intelligence through the looking glass of digital anthropology.
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A Speedier Solution for Molecular Biomedical Research
Doctors, medical researchers, and quantum physicists together have developed an algorithm that analyzes nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy readings using quantum...
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Tech Execs Urge Washington to Accelerate AI Adoption for National Security
Technology company CEOs have issued 35 recommendations to Congress for maintaining global artificial intelligence supremacy.
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Researchers Developing Tools to Calculate AI's Carbon Footprint
Researchers are creating tools to calculate the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence models to help developers understand their environmental impact.
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New York Bans Facial Recognition in Schools Statewide
The New York State legislature Wednesday passed a moratorium on the use of facial recognition and other biometric identification methods in schools statewide until...
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Self-Driving Industry Takes to the Highway After Robotaxi Failure
FThe autonomous vehicle industry is refocusing on more-profitable opportunities after efforts to commercialize robotaxis failed to live up to the hype.
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Tracking Misinformation Campaigns in Real-Time Is Possible, Study Shows
The researchers hope software engineers will be able to build on their work to create a real-time monitoring system for exposing foreign influence in American politics...
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Photon-Based Processing Units Enable More Complex Machine Learning
Researchers proposed a new machine learning approach that induces a photonic tensor core to conduct multiplications of matrices in parallel, boosting the speed...
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