Fake news is a term generating a lot of buzz in the United States. But in China, the term has taken on a whole new meaning. The country has issued new guidelines that will ban online video and audio suppliers from using artificial intelligence to disseminate “fake news.”
Pensa Systems raised another $10 million in a seed funding round that brought its total raised tally to $17.2 million.
Pensa’s autonomous drones, powered with computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI), may revolutionize the mundane chore of retail inventory taking.
In the arms race to implement (and avoid) censorship, David has a new tool against Goliath. It’s called Genetic Evasion, or Geneva for short.
Censoring regimes and authoritarian governments are all the time developing new and sophisticated online means to implement their censorship laws. Manual methods of circumventing censorship have been slow and ineffectual. But the AI-based Geneva tool will change the balance in favor of the researchers and protesters.
Just as in computers “Garbage In = Garbage Out,” so also in Machine Learning: “Bias In = Bias Out.”
The Microsoft Twitter chatbot Tay had to be hastily withdrawn after it reacted to trolls with racist and misogynist tweets. Presumably, the bot developed this artificial intelligence bias from its machine learning basics.
AstraZeneca, the British pharma giant, will launch a $1 billion fund with China International Capital Corporation (CICC).