In this year’s BBC Reith Lectures, “Living With Artificial Intelligence,” which concluded on Wednesday, Professor Stuart Russell weighed its benefits but warned of its dangers. A world-leading expert on AI based at the University of California, Berkeley, he quoted the 17th-century philosopher…
Anew vegan chicken is coming to grocery stores shelves and it’s made to mimic traditional chicken with the help of artificial intelligence. Chilean startup The Not Company (“NotCo”) relies on Giuseppe—a technology platform that uses artificial intelligence to create plant-based products that…
Forms of automation such as artificial intelligence increasingly inform decisions about who gets hired, is arrested, or receives health care. Examples from around the world articulate that the technology can be used to exclude, control, or oppress people and reinforce historic systems of inequality that predate…
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in journalism that could decimate media organizations around the world. The future of journalism — and its survival — could lie in artificial intelligence (AI). AI refers “to intelligent machines…
From content recommendations on your Netflix dashboard to interactions with Amazon voice assistants to AirBnB, Uber, and Google—all couldn’t do what they are doing without AI. But these are some of the world’s most successful companies. What about the rest? This might…
The topic of AI fairness metrics is as important to society as it is confusing. Confusing it is due to a number of reasons: terminological proliferation, abundance of formulae, and last not least the impression that everyone else seems to know what…
Agriculture Engineering and Technology interventions assisted farmers in ushering in the Green Revolution, which helped the country sail toward Food Security and become a net food surplus nation. Science advancements have continued to assist farmers in meeting challenges. With the advancement of…
Scientists develop ‘AI prosecutor’ that can press charges against you The technology can decide your fate with a 97 per cent accuracy, based on a verbal description of the case In news that definitely doesn’t sound like a dystopian nightmare, researchers in China…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are by no means new concepts for the office of finance. In fact, 59% of finance execs reported they are already investing in the technology. So, why do organizations still face roadblocks in implementing and adequately scaling…
Creating a Machine Learning model is a difficult task because we need to write a lot of code to try different models and find out the performing model for that particular problem. There are different libraries that can automate this process to…
