Artificial intelligence

The bigger picture: AI vertical farm, San Francisco

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A San Francisco agritech start-up has created a vertical farm that is run by AI and robots.  Plenty’s upright facility grows as much produce as 720 acres of typical farmland, but with a footprint of just two acres. AI monitors water usage, light, and environmental conditions and it learns how to grow crops faster and … Read more

AI can detect human emotions with wireless signals

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An AI has been developed that can reportedly use wireless signals to reveal peoples’ inner emotions.  According to researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the use of radio waves to measure heartrate and breathing signals can be used to predict how someone is feeling even in the absence of any other visual cues, such … Read more

Bias study hopes to inspire development of fairer facial recognition technology

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A study looking into the accuracy and bias of gender and skin colour in automatic face recognition algorithms tested with real-world data has found that some demographics show higher false positive or false negative rates.  Facial recognition has been routinely used by both private and governmental organisations worldwide. Automatic face recognition can be used for … Read more

US has ‘moral imperative’ to pursue AI weapons, panel says

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A US government-appointed panel has concluded that the nation should not agree to an outright ban on the development of use of autonomous weapons, following a public discussion on the issue.  The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which is led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, held a two-day public discussion on how the … Read more

Deep learning harnessed to suggest new purposes for drugs

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  Researchers from Ohio State University have developed a machine learning method which helps to determine which existing medications could be applied to improve outcomes in diseases for which they have not been prescribed.  Drug repurposing – which accelerates the commercialisation of drugs and lowers the risk associated with safety testing – is not a new concept. … Read more

Deep as chips: the new microprocessors powering AI

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Artificial intelligence is appearing everywhere, but normal CPUs are not efficient platforms for the technology. Efficiency will only come with a new breed of microprocessors that are engineered specifically for the AI workload of the 2020s.  The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is upscaling many standard types of IT workload as well as powering … Read more