Tag: artificial intelligence

Ministerial meeting on AI deliberated on tech challenges: Fawad

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday informed that Pakistani ministers were well aware of the technology revolution taking place in...

Norman – first psychopathic artificial intelligence

No, it's not a new horror film. It's Norman: also known as the first psychopathic artificial intelligence, just unveiled by US researchers. The goal is...

AI better at finding skin cancer than doctors

A computer was better than human dermatologists at detecting skin cancer in a study that pitted human against a machine in the quest for...

France to spend $1.8 billion on AI to compete with US,...

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron promised 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) of public funding into artificial intelligence by 2022 in a bid to reverse...

France must win Artificial Intelligence ‘arms race’, says Macron

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has set his sights on artificial intelligence as the next technological frontier France cannot afford to miss, and will...

Google’s Clips camera aims to bring AI into home gadgets

Babies, dogs, and artificial intelligence. Alphabet’s Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the launch of Google Clips, a pocket-sized digital camera that decides...

Top experts warn against ‘malicious use’ of AI

Artificial intelligence could be deployed by dictators, criminals and terrorists to manipulate elections and use drones in terrorist attacks, more than two dozen experts...

Paris to get an artificial intelligence research centre courtesy Google

PARIS: Google on Monday announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence, following a meeting between the tech giant’s...

International conference on emerging technologies: Chairman HEC for translating opportunities into...

ISLAMABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) Chairman Dr Mukhtar Ahmed has stressed on the need for translating the opportunities created by new technologies into reality while ensuring a...

Scientists make breakthrough towards creating artificial life

CHICAGO: In a major step toward creating artificial life, US researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial DNA and...

UK Govt claims to introduce driverless cars by 2021

British Finance Minister Philip Hammond will announce £75 million ($99 million) funding for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and plans to put driverless cars on UK...

Microsoft apologises for AI chatbot Tay’s racist comments

Microsoft is "deeply sorry" for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a company official wrote on...

Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from...

Courtesy The Guardian Microsoft’s attempt at engaging millennial with artificial intelligence has backfired hours into its launch, with waggish Twitter users teaching its chatbot how to be...

Go champion strikes back to beat Google’s DeepMind AI for first...

A champion Go player scored his first win over Go-playing computer software on Sunday after losing three straight times in the ancient Chinese game. Lee...