Google might have faked its AI demo
Published in AI
Monday, 21 May 2018 10:14

Google might have faked its AI demo


And the moon landings never happened

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Google’s AI demo last week was a fake.

Pawsey supercomputer gets AI boost
Published in AI
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 12:18

Pawsey supercomputer gets AI boost


Powered by Nvidia Volta working alongside AMD Opterons

Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has given its cloud service Nimbus an artificial intelligence boost with some Nvidia Volta gear.

Boffins create low-powered drones which don’t need humans
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Can hunt humanity for longer

A team of boffins which apparently has never seen Terminator has come up with the smallest completely autonomous nano-drone that can control itself without the need for human guidance.

Chinese and US spooks use sound to control AI assistants
Published in AI


A spy in your house

For two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.

US falling behind on artificial intelligence
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Intel's Brian Krzanich warns US that other countries are more artificially intelligent


While China, India, Japan, France and the European Union are crafting bold plans for artificial intelligence (AI), the US is falling behind having shut down its own AI taskforce, says Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.

Android P is all about AI
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:11

Android P is all about AI


New android first thoughts

Google launched its Android P beta and for the first time it made it available for nine phones and only two are the usual Google Pixel and Pixel 2 suspects.

Google’s new AI talks like a human
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Wednesday, 09 May 2018 12:49

Google’s new AI talks like a human


You could be working with Duplex and be unaware of it

Search engine Google has been showing off an AI tool dubbed "Duplex" which is an AI assistant that can call people up and interact with them – without anyone ever knowing they were speaking to a robot.

Xilinx has majority of LiDAR market
Published in Transportation
Tuesday, 08 May 2018 17:31

Xilinx has majority of LiDAR market


Essential for Level 4 / 5 self driving

Xilinx is not a name that you associate that much with the automotive industry, but these guys actually play in most of the self driving and other automotive markets.

IBM AC922 Power 9 server has 6 Nvidia V100s
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Enterprise AI beats the X86 competition

IBM has just announced an AC922 Power 9 based machine that addresses artificial intelligence (AI), deep and machine learning -  aimed at the enterprise AI market.

Microsoft announces Project Brainwave
Published in AI
Tuesday, 08 May 2018 12:00

Microsoft announces Project Brainwave


AI modules with specialised chips for Brainiacs 

Software King of the World Microsoft has announced that its system for running AI models with specialised chips is now available in preview on Azure.