IBM’s fully-autonomous edge AI-powered ship Mayflower has set off on its crewless voyage from Plymouth, UK to Plymouth, USA. The ship is named after the Mayflower vessel which transported pilgrim settlers from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. On its 400th anniversary, it was decided that a Mayflower for...
If you ask ten different data practitioners to define AI, you’ll get ten different answers. In its simplest form, AI is software that recognizes and reacts to complex patterns—but the way in which businesses derive...
DeepMind, the UK-based AI lab owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has developed an AI system called AlphaGeometry that can solve complex geometry problems close to human Olympiad gold medalists. In a new paper in...
Amazon is gearing up to roll out a revamped version of its Alexa voice assistant, which is expected to be available this October, right before the US shopping rush. Internally referred to as “Remarkable,” the...
Experts calling for a pause on AI development will be glad to hear that OpenAI isn’t currently training GPT-5. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke remotely at an MIT event and was quizzed about AI by...
China will begin enforcing its strict new rules around the creation of deepfakes from today. Deepfakes are increasingly being used for manipulation and humiliation. We’ve seen deepfakes of figures like disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried...
The CEO of AI cybersecurity firm Darktrace has called for a “Tech NATO” to counter growing cybersecurity threats. Poppy Gustafsson spoke on Wednesday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) – the UK’s leading and...
A new open-source AI called OpenVoice offers voice cloning with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Developed by researchers at MIT, Tsinghua University, and Canadian startup MyShell, OpenVoice uses just seconds of audio to clone a voice...
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Researchers have found that systems designed to counter the increasing prevalence of deepfakes can be deceived. The researchers, from the University of California – San Diego, first presented their findings at the WACV 2021 conference....
Huawei’s AI capabilities have made a breakthrough in the form of the company’s Supernode 384 architecture, marking an important moment in the global processor wars amid US-China tech tensions. The Chinese tech giant’s latest innovation...