Category: Ai

Recommended Reading: The AI surveillance company watching Utah

[ad_1] This small company is turning Utah into a surveillance panopticonJason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, and Joseph CoxMotherboard If you think Clearview’s AI-powered facial recognition is a major problem, buckle up. An artificial intelligence company called Banjo has agreement with Utah that gives it real-time access to traffic cameras, CCTV/public safety cameras, 911 systems and other […]

Robot learns to set the dinner table by watching humans

[ad_1] To nudge the robot toward the right outcome, the team set criteria that helps the robot satisfy its overall beliefs. The criteria can satisfy the formulas with the highest probability, the greatest number of formulas or even those with the least chance of failure. A designer could optimize a robot for safety if it’s […]

Banjo AI surveillance is already monitoring traffic cams across Utah

[ad_1] Banjo relies on info scraped from social media, satellite imaging data and the real-time info from law enforcement. Banjo claims its “Live Time Intelligence” AI can identify crimes — everything from kidnappings to shootings and “opioid events” — as they happen. Banjo presents many of the same concerns that similar companies have encountered. One […]

An algorithm could make CPUs a cheap way to train AI

[ad_1] Typically, companies use GPUs as acceleration hardware in implementing deep learning in technology. But this is pricey — top of the line GPU platforms cost around $100,000. Rice researchers have now created a cost-saving alternative, an algorithm called sub-linear deep learning engine (SLIDE) that is able to do the same job of implementing deep […]

AI can help find more places to store captured CO2 underground

[ad_1] The team trained a convolutional neural network to find the “hidden correlations” in components of high-frequency data from simulated earthquakes. The AI learned how to find patterns that could be used to infer the ‘missing’ low frequencies, to put it another way. The result is an algorithmic system that, in the right circumstances, can […]

IBM and Microsoft support the Vatican’s guidelines for ethical AI

[ad_1] The pledge, presented to Pope Francis today, calls for AI that safeguards the rights of all humans, especially the underprivileged, and for new regulations in areas like facial recognition. It asks tech leaders to “humanise technology and not ‘technologise’ humanity,” Novena News reports. “The Vatican is not an expert on the technology but on […]

Clearview AI leak names businesses using its facial recognition database

[ad_1] Thousands of public law enforcement agencies and private companies are named in the client logs including Best Buy and Macy’s, the Department of Justice including ICE, the CBP, Interpol, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, as well as a number of foreign states like the UAE. Facial recognition […]

AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

[ad_1] The team succeeded by developing a system that can find molecular structures with desired traits (say, killing bacteria) more effectively than past systems. Unlike previous methods, the neural networks learn representations of molecules automatically, mapping them into continuous vectors that help predict their behavior. Once ready, the researchers trained their AI on 2,500 molecules […]

Recommended Reading: The CIA-owned company that helped it spy on the world

[ad_1] The intelligence coup of the centuryGreg Miller,The Washington Post This in-depth report tells the story of Crypto AG, a Switzerland-based company that achieved success for its code-making machines during World War II. The company eventually became a popular manufacturer of encryption machines for countries around the world in the decades that followed. Governments trusted […]