New government and industry review aims to ‘supercharge’ UK AI industry

New proposals suggested by experts from industry and academia reveal how industry and government can lift the UK’s growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry by implementing the technology across the economy – from smarter scheduling of operations in healthcare, to hiring on-demand self-driving cars. The independent review, titled ‘Growing the Artificial Intelligence Industry in the UK’, reports on how AI can grow in the country, and will inform BEIS (Department for Business,...

16 October 2017 | Regulation

US author makes provocative claim AI will replace God

US author Dan Brown made a provocative claim during the Frankfurt Book Fair that AI will replace belief in traditional religions. Brown’s reasoning for his remark is that humanity no longer needs God but instead will develop a new form of collective consciousness with the help of artificial intelligence which fulfills the role of religion. Studies prove that religious belief is already in decline globally. Brown’s new book, Origin, was inspired by the question of “Will God survive...

13 October 2017 | Uncategorized

AI to fuel cloud computing growth, says ACCA chairman

Bernie Trudel, chairman of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), while addressing the audience at the Cloud Expo Asia conference in Singapore, said that he expects AI to fuel cloud computing growth. He said that although AI only accounts for 1% of the global cloud computing market currently, its share of the overall IT market is growing at 52%. Trudel added, “We’re starting to see AI having a significant impact on cloud computing. If you extrapolate what the analysts are saying,...

13 October 2017 | Cloud

Facebook’s CherryPi ranked sixth in ‘StarCraft’ tournament of AI bots

Facebook participated in a StarCraft tournament which pitted artificial intelligent “bots” against each other instead of humans. Facebook’s “CherryPi” AI bot ranked sixth in the overall tournament with 2,049 wins out of 2,966 games. The StarCraft AI competition made use of the original StarCraft PC game and its expansion, Brood War. The motive behind this was to evaluate the state of artificial intelligence and how it handles real-time strategy games. This genre poses a challenge...

12 October 2017 | Bots

Opinion: PornHub’s new AI is wasted on adult content

Warning: Contains descriptions of explicit sexual acts. PornHub has announced an AI for tagging adult content, but I can’t help but feel it demonstrates promising technology with better use elsewhere. The company’s AI is virtually perving on PornHub’s entire online catalogue, frame-by-frame, and tagging it with relevant tags for real users to discover content faster. It has been fed with thousands of images of models and specific acts to generate a database of names, faces, and...

11 October 2017 | Machine Learning

NVIDIA unveils Pegasus AI-powered supercomputer for self-driving robotaxis

NVIDIA has unveiled an AI-powered supercomputer called Pegasus to power ‘Level 5’ self-driving vehicles. The announcement was made during the company’s GTC Europe event in Munich, Germany, with the intention of making self-driving ‘robotaxis’ a reality. Pegasus is powered by four high-performance AI processors. It couples two of NVIDIA's newest Xavier system-on-a-chip processors — featuring an embedded GPU based on the NVIDIA Volta architecture — with two next-generation...

10 October 2017 | Connected Cars

This company aims to combine AI and blockchain and enhance point of sale

Datametrex AI Limited has made an update to its technology roadmap – and believes that blockchain can transform the business intelligence process at large. Serving as a plug and play solution for vendors, the Canadian IoT-based firm extends the life of Point of Sale terminals (POS), without having to upgrade them to new cloud-based devices through its DataTap technology. The DataTap technology captures all the sent data from the POS to the receipt printer, eventually sending it to the...

6 October 2017 | Marketing

Consumers believe AI should be held to a ‘Blade Runner’ law

A study conducted by SYZYGY titled Sex, lies and AI: How the British public feels about artificial intelligence’ has revealed the extent to which consumers expect AI to be regulated. Blade Runner 2049 is now in cinemas with its futuristic vision which, as you’d expect, features artificial intelligence. The original Blade Runner film released in 1982 envisioned what felt like a distant future but the new film has elements which now don’t seem that far away. Like many similar films...

6 October 2017 | Ethics

ConversionPoint Technologies raises $2 million in funding for AI-enabled eCommerce

ConversionPoint Technologies, an AI-enabled eCommerce platform, has closed $2 million (£1.53m) in funding with private investors with the aim of expanding its sales and marketing capabilities. The firm, alongside strategic moves and acquisitions, is also planning to use the money to add several software and system developers to support the completion of its new customer facing portal and expand its capabilities around enterprise managed services. Robert Tallack, CEO of ConversionPoint...

6 October 2017 | Marketing

Investigators are using AI to solve the mystery of Anne Frank’s betrayal

A team of forensic investigators are using advancements in AI to hopefully solve the cold case of who betrayed Anne Frank back in 1944. Everyone should know the harrowing story of Anne Frank, but one missing piece never uncovered is of who betrayed the young girl which led her to death in a concentration camp. Historians, journalists, and investigators have spent decades attempting to uncover the betrayer's identity with little success. Anne’s father, Otto, was the sole survivor of...

5 October 2017 | Machine Learning