CNBC reported on Monday that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt oversaw a government commission ostensibly established to provide guidance to the U.S. government regarding policies on AI and machine learning technologies without disclosing personal investments in startups working in the AI space.
Amin Nasser, the chief executive officer of Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Saudi Aramco, said on Tuesday that cyberattacks have become one of the top threats faced by the gigantic energy corporation – a menace as threatening as natural disasters and terrorist attacks on Aramco’s physical assets.
The emergence of “A.I.-generated art” is sparking renewed debate among artists about the role of human talent and inspiration in modern works after the New York Times published a report of a creator winning an art prize with one of the productions.
Tax officials in France have turned to AI to scan for undeclared swimming pools in order to siphon off more tax revenue from the people.
“We just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” Yuval Noah Harari said of the 21st century and future economies.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday that inventors must be human in another blow to computer scientists who believe AI machines should be recognized as inventors on patents.
China’s entire court system has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) software that is used in determining “every verdict,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Wednesday.
Researchers at China’s Nankai University claimed this week that they successfully cloned pigs through an entirely automated process for the first time in March, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
Prompted by fears of “overpopulation” problems, one leading expert on AI believes that coming generations will embrace fake AI “Tamagotchi children” instead of real offspring.
European universities have collaborated on thousands of joint projects with institutions tied to China’s military, an investigation claimed.
Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.
Researchers in eastern China’s Suzhou city claim they have successfully developed an artificial intelligence system capable of monitoring the growth of animal embryos inside an artificial womb, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.
David McCormick, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, told Breitbart News that America needs a “whole nation strategy” involving the government and the private sector to combat China’s increasing influence in the tech sector.
Chinese scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (A.I.) system that can examine “evidence” and charge people with “crimes,” as defined by China’s totalitarian parody of a Western justice system.
China on Monday submitted a paper to the United Nations calling for global regulations on the military use of artificial intelligence (A.I.).
Bucheon, South Korea, will begin using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based facial recognition software in January designed to cull images from CCTV cameras and locate, track, and contact trace Chinese coronavirus patients, Reuters reported Monday.
An AI website introduced a project that shows horrific future scenarios from climate change that are fake but designed to “incide action.”
Nicolas Chaillan, the first person to hold the position of Chief Software Officer (CSO) of the U.S. Air Force, resigned last week to protest the slow pace of technological development for the American military.
Facebook users who watched a video from a British newspaper showing black men received an automated prompt from the social media platform asking if they wanted to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” according to the New York Times.
Britain is facing a “dystopian” future in which facial recognition is used to turn public spaces into “open-air prisons” say campaigners.
The Senate passed legislation crafted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) designed to help America compete against China.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have installed camera systems in police stations across China’s westernmost territory, Xinjiang, that allegedly use artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition software to detect people’s emotional states, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced Thursday it will increase investments in its production capabilities by $100 billion over the next three years — and raise prices on its chips — to handle “a structural and fundamental increase in underlying demand driven by key long-term growth megatrends including 5G and high-performance computing.”
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that China’s massive Huawei telecom company helped to develop an artificial intelligence system that can scan crowds of people and identify them by age, sex, and race.
Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is planning to invest $19 million in the next fiscal year into “programs to help [Japan’s] residents find love,” an unnamed Cabinet official told the Japan Times this week, in an attempt to slow the nation’s rapidly declining birth rate.
A blind man, Thomas Panek, completed a five-kilometer (3.1 miles) run through New York City’s Central Park Thursday without using a guide dog or human runner.
The Canadian city of London, Ontario, is using artificial intelligence (AI) software to predict which residents are most vulnerable to becoming homeless so it can rush emergency financial assistance to them — The city government sees homelessness as a growing problem because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Students have figured out how to exploit testing software that uses AI technology to grade written answers. Several students explained to reporters this week that the software gives perfect scores on essay questions after students simply entered a list of relevant keywords instead of a standard test answer.
TikTok should be banned from the U.S. given its role in surveilling Americans, said Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War, offering his comments on the Wednesday edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Researchers at MIT are apologizing this week after one of its research projects included racial and gender-based slurs in a massive dataset used to train AI systems. The AI was designed to identify objects in photographs such as trees, cars, plants, and pets, but also learned racial and gender slurs from the training dataset.
Amazon is deploying AI known as “distance assistants,” which will warn the company’s warehouse workers if they get too close to their co-workers as the company continues its battle against the Chinese virus.
The people in the streets creating riotous unrest are in the news, they are making news, and as such, we know exactly who they are.
Democrats have converted an AI project that was initially funded by the department of defense to combat propaganda from ISIS and other extremists, into a tool to track down and counter Trump supporters on social media. The “Defeat Disinfo” group is being advised by retired Army General Stanley McChrystal.
Restoration of American manufacturing must be predicated on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), estimated Mark Cuban.
Vatican officials plan to release principles promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence with the support of Microsoft and IBM, according to a recent report.
The U.S. and China are locked in a competition over technology that will ultimately determine who controls the world, experts at CPAC warned.
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is arguing for increased surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, including facial recognition, to combat crime and terrorism, however, critics fear the increased capabilities will negatively impact civil liberties. Dame Cressida Dick,
Approximately 6.1 million individuals dropped off the food stamp rolls since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office in February 2017, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
According to a recent report by Wired, a Canadian AI-driven algorithm called BlueDot sent the first warnings of the coronavirus outbreak in China beating both the CDC and the WHO.
Nearly two decades ago, Warner Bros. released Steven Spielberg’s A.I., about a humanoid boy brought to life by artificial intelligence technology. Now the Burbank studio is itself embracing A.I. in a major way to facilitate the greenlighting of potential movies.
