Microsoft developing a tool to fix malfunctioning AI
Been watching Westworld
It appears that the software boffins at Microsoft have been watching Westworld and realised that they could have a problem on their hands if AI gets out of control.
Qualcomm inks a deal with Chinese Thundercomm
Bringing edge on-device AI to developers in China
Qualcomm was keen to mention the new deal with Thundercomm at its AI Day in Beijing, which will bring the new Qualcomm on-device artificial intelligence to developers in China.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.