Wildfires have caused extreme fire damages across the globe, along with many deaths. It is significant to know when wildfires are spreading, and where, to prevent loss of life. Realizing this important information in advance is key. Forecasting wildfire danger can be…
It is almost forty years since the release of William Gibson’s pivotal cyberpunk sci-fi novel Neuromancer, which is believed to have inspired the Matrix franchise, among other brain-machine interface science fiction classics. However, the dream of plugging into the human brain—to enable artificial ‘enhancements’, connect…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities have been quickly making their way into industrial robotics technology. In the never-ending quest to improve productivity, manufacturers are looking to improve on the rigid, inflexible capabilities of standard industrial robots. The merging of robotics…
The British mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1950, “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’” His inquiry framed the discussion for decades of artificial intelligence research. For a couple of generations of scientists contemplating AI, the question of whether “true” or “human”…
As business leaders, we inevitably find ourselves quoting Tom Cruise’s line from Jerry Maguire: “Show me the money!” And it’s our job to lead our teams to where the money is. Business leaders need to remember that making money is not only…
An international team of around 1,000 largely academic volunteers has tried to break big tech’s stranglehold on natural-language processing and reduce its harms. Trained with US$7-million-worth of publicly funded computing time, the BLOOM language model will rival in scale those made by…
AI has proven itself to be a value-adding technology across the global economy. As businesses found themselves scrambling to adapt to current events over the last few years, some of them found ways to cram half a decade’s worth – in Frito-Lay’s case –…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was a big first step toward giving consumers control of their data. As powerful as this privacy initiative is, a new personal data challenge has emerged. Now, privacy concerns are focused on what companies are doing with…
For cancer patients, getting a swift and accurate diagnosis is critical for their prognosis—and peace of mind. But if the screening is done by an endoscopy, the process is more complex. Typically, doctors look for lesions with specialized cameras, but limitations leave…
Palmer Luckey, the founder of VR headset startup Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, shared his candid thoughts on Zuckerberg’s metaverse at the Wall Street Journal‘s Tech Live conference on Monday. And he’s not impressed with the results so far. Luckey is also a former Facebook employee…
