Given Silicon Valley’s reputation (and penchant) for breaking things rather than stopping to think them through, brainwave reading devices will need close regulation and ethical reviews before testing begins. (By Garfield Benjamin, The Conversation) Not ...
“It is important for those participating in AI standards development to be aware of, and to act consistently with, U.S. government policies and principles, including those that address societal and ethical issues, governance and privacy.” ...
“And now we are heading towards a full-scale arms race of artificial intelligence, which is very, very bad news.” Artificial intelligence will play a pivotal role in shaping the future global order, as countries compete ...
Artificial intelligence technologies are getting advanced enough to be able to approximate individuals’ writing or speaking style, and even facial expressions. (Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University) When artificial intelligence systems start getting creative, they ...
The development of artificial intelligence technologies may prove as a promising replacement for live animals in laboratory drug testing. A new study published in the scientific journal Toxicological Sciences states that predictive drug tests on ...
Visitors and dignitaries at the Ethiopia Information and Communication Technology Expo of 2018 held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were wowed by the appearance of Sophia the robot. Sophia’s visit to Ethiopia, which is also where ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemns Amazon’s facial recognition tool, Rekognition, as invasive and dangerous. Rekognition is powered by artificial intelligence. It is capable of identifying faces from photo databases with several millions of ...
African entrepreneurs are increasingly finding innovative ways to use drones. Drones are being used to deliver medicine to secluded parts of the continent, to identify crop disease and other such beneficial uses. Drones also have ...