Page 24 - Latest Updates on Artificial intelligence
Robot dogs: On police forces, defence duty and their potential risks
What are these entities? These are canine-shaped robots with AI and four-legged mobility. Characterised as "partly-autonomous" ground vehicles, they can be used to do a variety of tasks
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Twitter analysing harmful impacts of its AI, machine learning algorithms
In a bid to assess racial and gender bias in its artificial intelligence/machine learning systems, Twitter is starting a new initiative called Responsible Machine Learning
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EU plans ban on AI tech for mass surveillance, social credit scores
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology gets all-pervasive, the European Union is considering a ban on the use of AI for mass surveillance and social credit scores, among other applications.
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The rise & fall & rise again of statistics
The surprising drivers of mathematical innovation
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Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings: Details here
Though at least two Google engineers had earlier resigned to protest the dismissal of artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Timnit Gebru, Bengio is the highest-profile employee yet to depart
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AI can bring enormous changes in way wars are fought: IAF chief Bhadauria
The Indian Force has started looking at AI in a range of areas, including training and threat monitoring, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said
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Digitising India with high investments in automation
In adoption of emerging technologies, banking and financial services have already set the pace of transformation
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Indian tech services can touch revenues of $300-350 bn in next 5 years
According to a report by McKinsey & Company for Nasscom titled 'Future of Technology Services-Winning in this decade', tech spending is only going to be intensified in the next decade
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Uniphore raises $140 million as demand for enterprise AI increases
2020 sped up digital imperatives for companies as it put focus directly on AI and automation to drive that transformation of what experts agree is projected to be a $500 bn-plus market opportunity
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The threats of 'Western Universalism'
Book review of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds
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Startup of the year: Freshworks aims to become a $1-bn company in 5 years
Freshworks has set its sights on increasing revenue to over $1bn inthe next five years as it prepares to take advantage of the vast untapped SaaS market
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Big Tech uses AI to arrest blindness among India's burgeoning diabetics
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness and vision loss in adults and tech giants such as Intel and Google are building AI-based innovations to address such problems
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Tech spend in 2021 to be better than last 2 years: Nasscom survey
Over 70 per cent chief executives expect global spend to grow over 4 per cent; recovery to be led by digital segment
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Robotic futures
Book review of GENIUS MAKERS: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
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VC investors to rely more on AI than a gut feel by 2025: Gartner
Gartner predicts that by 2025, the AI- and data-science-equipped VC or PE investor will become commonplace
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Can Vinod Dham-founded AlphaICs disrupt the AI-based chip market?
The firm operates in the mid-power segment worth $15-20 billion, and is designing a chip targeted for vision applications like surveillance, industrial automation and IoT
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A peek into the startup incubation drives of India's next-rung campuses
Not all great ideas are nurtured at IITs and IIMs; many enterprises with formidable products today have come from the country's deeper regions and have received parenting at lesser known institutes
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How technology is changing the silhouettes of fashion in Covid times
From omnichannel, to AI, to 3D technology, the fashion industry is in the middle of a digital revolution
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SoftBank's internet business to invest $4.7 billion in tech over five years
The focus will be on artificial intelligence
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McDonald's considers selling part of digital startup Dynamic Yield
McDonald's Corp is exploring selling part of Israeli artificial intelligence startup Dynamic Yield Ltd, which it acquired two years ago in an attempt to boost online marketing efforts, the firm said
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