Rule-based engines and simple predictive models could identify the majority of fraud attempts in the past, yet they aren’t keeping up with the scale and severity of fraud attempts today. Fraud attempts and breaches are more nuanced, with organized crime and state-sponsored…
More than 40 million people worldwide are the victim of slavery. Emerging technology, including artificial intelligence, can help combat the practice. It can reveal trends in payments and help identify victims. Despite legalised slavery being abolished in the UK in 1833 and…
Researchers at Google claim to have developed a machine learning model that can separate a sound source from noisy, single-channel audio based on only a short sample of the target source. In a paper, they say their SoundFilter system can be tuned to…
There’s been no shortage of documentaries covering the perils of Big Tech. Most recently, Netflix’s The Social Dilemma made waves, for better or worse, as it leaned on insiders to unpack the manipulative designs of social media algorithms. Now filmmaker Shalini Kantayya is digging deeper into…
The need to pursue racial justice is more urgent than ever, especially in the technology industry. The far-reaching scope and power of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) means that any gender and racial bias at the source is multiplied to the nth power…
The protests across the U.S. and around the globe in the wake of the murder of George Floyd have raised awareness about structural inequalities. Though the specific focus has been on police brutality, scholars, activists, and artists are sounding the alarm on…
Sometimes, during flights, aircrafts have to change their route (their flight plan) because of unforeseen events, such as storms. These meteorological phenomena, which may be accompanied by hail and lightning, are difficult to predict; they are known to appear in a wide…
If “crowdsourcing sarcasm” feels like a Twitter bio, then it’s not hard to understand how crucial sarcasm is to modern language — which is why researchers in China have developed an AI capable of detecting sarcasm, according to a recent paper published on the…
Email The Future of Collaboration in the Artificial Intelligence Era How humans collaborate with one another has been closely linked to technological progress. Before the invention of the telephone, we had to be in the same room to communicate in real-time –…
Imagine a classroom in the future where teachers are working alongside artificial intelligence partners to ensure no student gets left behind. The AI partner’s careful monitoring picks up on a student in the back who has been quiet and still for the…
