Gary Marcus has criticised a prediction by Elon Musk that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) will be achieved by 2029 and challenged him to a $100,000 bet. Marcus founded RobustAI and Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), is the Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, and authored Rebooting.AI. His...
DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI research lab, has turned a profit for the first time since the company was founded in 2010. The London-based firm recorded a profit of £43.8 million in 2020 with revenue at...
AI is transforming the banking industry, but the expected benefits and savings come at great human cost with the impact on finance jobs. The report, a collaboration between digital bank Zopa and Juniper Research, forecasts...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the extent of the company’s AI investments during an internal company meeting. The meeting included discussions about new products, such as chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that can converse with...
The United Nations’ (UN) head of human rights has called for all member states to put a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence systems. UN high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet...
Google has explained how machine learning is helping to make Chrome more secure and enjoyable. Starting with security, Google says that its latest machine learning (ML) model has enabled Chrome to detect over twice as...
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A pioneer in machine learning has argued that the technology is best placed to augment human intelligence and bemoaned ‘confusion’ over the meaning of artificial intelligence (AI). Michael I. Jordan, a professor in the department...
Palantir has demonstrated how AI can be used for national defense and other military purposes. The use of AI in the military is highly controversial. In this context, Large Language Models (LLMs) and algorithms must...
Ryan Daws (@Gadget_Ry) sat down with Tom Scott, Founder and CEO of Streambased, at AI & Big Data Expo Global to hear about the power of combining event streaming with large-scale analytics using Apache Kafka....
The US Internal Revenue Service has unveiled expanded voice bot options to help eligible taxpayers easily verify their identity to set up or modify a payment plan while avoiding long wait times. “This is part...