KDnuggets
3 Reasons Why We Are Far From Achieving Artificial General Intelligence
9 min read · From 2020 · How far we are from achieving Artificial General Intelligence? We answer this through the study of three limitations of current machine learning.
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The Verge
US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
2 min read · From 2020 · Following similar decisions from European agencies.
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VentureBeat
Companies equip cameras with AI to track social distancing and mask-wearing
3 min read · From 2020 · Stores and workplaces are equipping existing cameras with AI software that can track compliance with guidelines like social distancing and mask-wearing.
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techrepublic.com
Artificial intelligence can take banks to the next level
2 min read · From 2020 · Banking has the potential to improve its customer service, loan applications, and billing with the help of AI and natural language processing.
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Forbes
Winter Is Coming—For The Economy And AI
5 min read · From 2020 · The possible coming of a recession could have a dramatic effect on how companies use artificial intelligence in their businesses.
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Fast Company
The 10 most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2020
4 min read · From 2020 · Graphcore, Nvidia, and eight other companies pushing the art of AI forward.
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TNW
This startup is building a brain-reading device to take on Elon Musk’s Neuralink
2 min read · From 2020 · Last year, Elon Musk came on stage to talk about his ambitious brain-interface company Neuralink, and sold people dreams of controlling an iPhone using only your brain. Now, the company has a new…
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MIT Technology Review
Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to a new kind of attack
3 min read · From 2020 · Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought.
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BuzzFeed News
Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI
~18 min read · From 2020 · A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
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Real Life
Fair Warning — Real Life
~11 min read · From 2020 · For as long as there has been AI research, there have been credible critiques about the risks of AI boosterism
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Science Magazine
From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations by billions of times
3 min read · From 2020 · With little training, neural networks create accurate emulators for physics, astronomy, and earth science
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The Guardian
Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time
3 min read · From 2020 · Team at MIT says halicin kills some of the world’s most dangerous strains
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a16z
The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software)
~14 min read · From 2020 · We have noticed in many cases that AI companies simply don’t have the same economic construction as software businesses. At times, they can even look more like traditional services companies.
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Fast Company
Mathematicians have solved traffic jams, and they’re begging cities to listen
1 min read · From 2020 · Mathematicians are unimpressed by engineers’ solutions.
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STAT
AI becoming a useful tool in coronavirus response, data experts say
2 min read · From 2020 · For the first time in a global outbreak, AI is showing its value in efforts to monitor and respond to the coronavirus, specialists say.
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Quartz
Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition
2 min read · From 2020 · Facial recognition technology is essential to daily life in China, on a scale beyond than other nations.
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