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
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
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
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
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
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
A new House of Lords report says the UK government needs to better coordinate its artificial intelligence (AI) policy and the use of data and technology by national and local government. The main conclusions of the House of Lords Liaison Committee’s report, ‘AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency’, are that there is now … Read more
High-powered computers are back, but how do we deal with their thirst for energy? By the end of the 1980s, big iron was showing more than a touch of rust. Monster machines like the Cray-2 ruled supercomputing. It was an age when, supposedly, no-one got fired for buying IBM: Big Blue dominated enterprise computing with … Read more
The University of Cambridge will offer a master’s degree course focused on the responsible use of artificial intelligence, which it says will be the UK’s first. The course will be led by the university’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), in partnership with the university’s Institute for Continuing Education. It is designed for … Read more
The government has announced £20m funding for AI projects including one that could enable the early detection of cancer. The Turing AI Acceleration Fellowships will give 15 of the UK’s top AI researchers money to help speed up their projects in everything from medical diagnosis to increasing workplace productivity. The Department for Business, Energy & … Read more