New all seeing cameras will revolutionise computer vision as we know it

New all seeing cameras will revolutionise computer vision as we know it

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine a camera that can see and analyse every part of the visible and non-visible spectrum at the same time, now imagine it’s in a search and rescue drone, or a hunter killer robot… Hey, I know you like hearing about the grand things that...

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Experts: AI ‘will beat humans in all tasks by 2060, and take all jobs by 2140’

Experts: AI ‘will beat humans in all tasks by 2060, and take all jobs by 2140’

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The debates about the impact of AI on humanity and civilisation will rage on for decades to come, if not centuries, but there is a broad consensus that our world will change significantly as a result of it in the next fifty years.   Enjoy...

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New shark spotter algorithm saves lives, and sharks

New shark spotter algorithm saves lives, and sharks

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sharks get a bad rap and it’s in part because they eat people, not many and it’s statistically insignificant, but nevertheless people don’t like being eaten, now though an AI might finally put a stop to them snacking between meals   Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...

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This new test will tell us if AI has become self-aware and gained consciousness

This new test will tell us if AI has become self-aware and gained consciousness

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The proof that we are turning science fiction into science fact every day is all around us, so we should conclude that one day AI will become conscious and self-aware, and now we can test for it.   A few weeks ago Facebook unveiled their...

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Google DeepMind has given its AI the ability to imagine and ultimately innovate

Google DeepMind has given its AI the ability to imagine and ultimately innovate

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagination is thought to be a uniquely human trait, but now that AI’s are being taught how to imagine not only will it make them better at understanding the consequences of their actions but it could make them better innovators too.   Researchers at Google’s...

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Nvidia’s latest autonomous drone flies off grid

Nvidia’s latest autonomous drone flies off grid

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly more devices and products are able to navigate their surroundings without having to rely on external systems or platforms, and as AI moves into the devices themselves it’s all just one more step on the path to fully autonomous behaviours.   GPS can be...

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Automated trading algorithms accidentally wiped $22Bn off Facebooks share price

Automated trading algorithms accidentally wiped $22Bn off Facebooks share price

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Algorithmic traders use automation to their advantage to try to beat the market, but when data goes bad the shockwaves can reverberate across Wall Street and the global markets   Facebook’s stock suffered a dramatic flash crash yesterday seconds after it released its second quarter earnings,...

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Facebook creates a new intelligence test to test how smart AI’s really are

Facebook creates a new intelligence test to test how smart AI’s really are

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we only have one yard stick to measure how intelligent an AI really is, and it’s out dated, so Facebook has created a new one fit for the modern age.   One of the greatest common misconceptions about many of today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems...

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Microsoft’s AI just got a perfect score on Mrs. Pacman

Microsoft’s AI just got a perfect score on Mrs. Pacman

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Games and play help humans learn new skills, especially when we’re young, but it increasingly looks like AI’s are the superior game players   Video games are one of the best ways to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) – they offer risk free digital environments for...

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Facebook’s bots unexpectedly created their own language

Facebook’s bots unexpectedly created their own language

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI agents are learning how to bluff, negotiate, create and hide their own languages and as the technology increasingly becomes part of our world’s digital fabric that should raise some eyebrows.   As Mark Zuckerberg plays around with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create his own...

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Andrew Ng has started a new AI company: DeepLearning.ai

Andrew Ng has started a new AI company: DeepLearning.ai

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Andrew Ng is one of the world’s leading Deep Learning experts and now he’s resurfaced it’s likely that the boundaries of AI are going to get pushed faster and harder than ever before.   Former Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng, who used to head up Baidu’s...

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Microsoft’s pig wrangling competition is teaching AI’s to cooperate

Microsoft’s pig wrangling competition is teaching AI’s to cooperate

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s AI’s operate independently of each other, but in the future they’ll need to cooperate and Microsoft wants to teach them how.   I live in the countryside in the UK, and I also visited France a lot when I was a child, so I...

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Skype can now translate ten languages in real time

Skype can now translate ten languages in real time

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Over the past five decades the world has got immeasurably smaller but language is still a barrier, but that’s all beginning to change.   Yes, it’s a small world. Or so we’re told. The advent of the telephone and the internet made distance irrelevant and...

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An Australian AI can predict when you’ll die with 70 percent accuracy

An Australian AI can predict when you’ll die with 70 percent accuracy

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF How long you have left to live is determined by a whole range of factors and scientists in Australia are trying to work backwards from death to use AI to predict when you’ll die, and so far the results are impressive.   Scientists, data scientists...

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Some of the biggest names in A&R are using AI to pick future stars

Some of the biggest names in A&R are using AI to pick future stars

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s list of tricks and new skills know no bounds and now it’s increasingly being used by the A&R industry to filter out the winners from the losers.   $100 million. That’s the value, that Music XRay, a 21st century A&R company that uses Artificial Intelligence...

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Terrorists are using ‘Photo morph’ fraud to circumvent border security

Terrorists are using ‘Photo morph’ fraud to circumvent border security

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As companies race to create new biometric security systems, criminals are busy finding new ways to beat them and the Photo Morph is the latest example.   Biometric systems, like the ones being rolled out in the airports in Australia,  were supposed to be the...

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Doodle a face and watch this AI image generator make it look more “Human”

Doodle a face and watch this AI image generator make it look more “Human”

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI gets its proverbial head around creating synthetic content the field’s now starting to accelerate, and fast.   Machine Learning is, perhaps, the most common platform for existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) networks. The basic idea is that an AI can be taught to reach its own...

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Google’s new AI can build AI’s that eclipse those created by human experts

Google’s new AI can build AI’s that eclipse those created by human experts

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It is inevitable that one day the majority, if not all, new AI’s will be created by AI’s and not humans, and that day might come sooner than we think.   Machine learning experts and data scientists are in increasingly short supply as organisations around...

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Inside the Sony lab making the world’s first AI music album

Inside the Sony lab making the world’s first AI music album

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is getting creative and later this year Sony plan on releasing the first AI produced album. Will you buy it? and more importantly will you know the difference?   Some 70 years ago, computer scientist Alan Turing famously set the bar for Artificial...

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Experts are starting to agree that AI will replace CEO’s

Experts are starting to agree that AI will replace CEO’s

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you can break a job into roles and tasks you can automate it, and now CEO’s are coming into the firing line…   There’s a saying – if you can describe your job in one sentence then get prepared for it to be automated....

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