Microsoft uses AI to find bugs
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Friday, 17 April 2020 10:56

Microsoft uses AI to find bugs


Will open source it

Software King of the World Microsoft has developed a system that it claims correctly distinguishes between security and non-security software bugs 99 percent of the time, and that accurately identifies the critical, high-priority security bugs on average 97 percent of the time.

AI starting to evolve
Published in AI
Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:47

AI starting to evolve


Just as humanity is taking a couple of steps back

Just as humanity is fighting its way to the dark ages, artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving so it does not need humans any more.

Huawei working on an AI GPU
Published in AI
Saturday, 11 April 2020 10:41

Huawei working on an AI GPU


As Apple settled with Imagination

Huawei, for the most part, relies on ARM IP. It  uses the ARM Cortex CPU and Mali GPU cores for its SoCs. The company has high AI aspirations with its Ascend series of chips. Now recent rumors point out that the Chinese giant is setting up a GPU research center in South Korea and focuses on AI and datacenter.

Intel involved in AI defence programme
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Friday, 10 April 2020 11:11

Intel involved in AI defence programme


Has it never seen Wargames?

Chipzilla and Georgia Tech are spearheading Pentagon-backed efforts to defend against cyber-attacks against self-driving cars, facial recognition and weapons detection software.

Boffins create open source AI object detector
Published in AI


Chinese and Volish collaboration

A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers have open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT).

AI can't manage some things
Published in AI
Thursday, 02 April 2020 10:59

AI can't manage some things


Still a role for humans

It appears that AI is as accurate as a tarot reader when it comes to predicting some subjects. 

Vatican AI conference was attended by coronavirus
Published in AI


Robot Divine intelligence might have smited Church, Microsoft and IBM

An AI conference in the Vatican included high ranking clergy, executives from Microsoft and IBM and a bloke who had the coronavirus.

Putin’s daughter is head of AI at Moscow State University
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Not bad for an acrobatic rock’n’roll dancer

Katerina Tikhonova, the youngest daughter of Russian President Tsar Vladimir Putin, was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.

Slap-happy Pope to bless AI policy
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Friday, 28 February 2020 11:21

Slap-happy Pope to bless AI policy


Backed by IBM and Microsoft

Vatican officials will release principles promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI), with the backing of Microsoft and IBM as the first two technology industry sponsors.

AI can be fooled by playing with words
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:04

AI can be fooled by playing with words


Boffins come up with text fooler

Changing a single word in your resume can fool AI screening software into classifying you as a person with deep convictions instead of a person with a long list of convictions.