Even people who aren’t fans of spiders can appreciate the intricate beauty of their webs. It’s even more fascinating when you consider the fact that the arachnids have tiny brains, yet somehow can build these geometrically precise creations. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins University…
Artificial Intelligence-based technologies have the potential of becoming tools used to promote equity and provide personalized learning. The use of AI and other technologies in colleges and universities open the doors of higher education to all disregarding where in the world they…
These three layers of governance are critical in building ethical, effective AI. The Ancient Greek playwrights knew how to tell a good story, but occasionally found themselves searching for a way to solve whatever conflict they had concocted. So they invented the…
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret. Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news of “mysteries solved” and “hidden treasures revealed” generate traffic and clicks. So I’m never surprised when I see AI-assisted…
Changing climatic conditions, the shortage of skilled workers, the use of pesticides—a wide range of factors have an impact on the quality and flow of agricultural processes. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI are aiming to make…
What makes a painting uniquely human? Is music generated by artificial intelligence really that different from what a human makes? Can you tell when a machine learning program has created the image you’re looking at? If you think you can tell the…
Author Jeanette Winterson has been reading and writing about artificial intelligence and its relationship to humans for years. But, as she says in the introduction to her new book, she felt like she wasn’t seeing the big picture of how technology is…
When you were a child, how many times did you use the argument with your parents “but everyone else is doing it” to rip holes in the knees of your jeans or dye your hair blonde or steal beer out of the…
New ethical and moral questions continue to emerge as we expand how we use artificial intelligence in business and government. This is undoubtedly a good thing. Developing new technologies without incorporating ethics, morals or values would be careless at best, catastrophic at…
Robots that analyse a defendant’s body language to determine signs of guilt will replace judges by the year 2070, according to an artificial intelligence expert. Writer and speaker on AI Terence Mauri believes the machines will be able to detect physical and…
