Artificial Intelligence Archives

How Agtech can deliver global agriculture from its impending crisis

Mar 8, 2019

Japan’s innovation hothouses have a new focus - tractors. The Japanese government will be testing self-driving tractors at 50 model farms this year in a push to develop “smart agriculture” capabilities. Compani...

Top Bank of England economist warns “large swaths” of workers will lose jobs to AI

West Side Story

Aug 21, 2018

Innovation, Policy, Science

Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England told BBC News this week that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to leave “large swaths” of workers "technologically unemployed" as their jobs...

Elon Musk’s OpenAI achieves milestones in AI learning and dexterity

West Side Story

Jul 30, 2018

Innovation, Science

Elon Musk’s nonprofit AI research group, OpenAI, has broken new ground in teaching a robot hand to manipulate objects, according to The Verge. For one, the researchers accomplished their goal of having the h...

In a first, an AI assistant for astronauts is headed to the International Space Station

West Side Story

Jul 1, 2018

Innovation, Science

An artificial intelligence companion built to assist astronauts launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday, making it the first robot with AI ever sent into space. Dubbed the Crew Interactive Mobile...

Farming of The Future Is Here

Platonium

Jun 4, 2018

Innovation

British entrepreneur and fourth-generation farmer Sam Watson-Jones believes that the robots his company has created will farm up to 5 percent of the UK’s wheat crops in the next five years. This may seem like a...

MIT researchers develop headset that can interpret silent verbalization

West Side Story

May 2, 2018

Innovation, Science

A new device from MIT researchers can effectively read users’ thoughts to generate hands-free, voice-free, digital commands, according to a report from Live Science. The AlterEgo headset uses a neural network t...

Scientists call for a collaborative AI research institute in Europe

West Side Story

Apr 25, 2018

Innovation, Science, World

An open letter from top European scientists calls for a major artificial intelligence research institute to compete with the US and China, where many of the world’s top AI companies are based. Dubbed the Europe...

Company debuts house cleaning robot with machine learning capabilities

West Side Story

Jan 12, 2018

Innovation, Science

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Aeolus Robotics presented their latest development – a child-sized robot that can perform a number of household cleaning tasks without any help from huma...

Facebook implements AI screening for suicide risks among users

West Side Story

Nov 27, 2017

Business, Health, Science

Facebook announced Monday that it will begin using artificial intelligence to address broadcasted suicide risks on its social network, according to the Washington Post. The AI tool will review posts for suicide...

Research aims to correct mistakes and biases in AI machine learning

West Side Story

Oct 27, 2017

Innovation, Science

A project launched by researchers at Columbia and Lehigh Universities has yielded effective error-correction processes, intended to correct mistakes and biases in Artificial Intelligence deep learning networks....

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