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
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
Researchers from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have led a study using AI and remote-sensing satellite technologies to produce the most detailed nationwide map of air pollution. The novel method offers an impressive level of detail, with daily measurements provided in a 1x1km grid across Britain. This could transform understanding of the health … Read more
Cerebras has worked with the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to demonstrate its CS-1 system, which is based on the world’s largest chip. The CS-1 is powered by Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), which was first presented in November 2019. While chipmakers typically cut a wafer into hundreds of separate chips, Cerebras … Read more
Researchers have developed an AI tool that can rate a film’s content in a matter of seconds, based on the film script and before a single scene has been shot. Ratings can determine a film’s appeal to consumers and the size of its potential audience. Thus, they have an impact on a film’s bottom line. … Read more
IBM has announced that it will split into two companies by the end of 2021. It will concentrate on forward-facing services such as cloud computing and AI, and form a new company to manage legacy IT infrastructure. The new company will be created from IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services, which belongs to its Global Technology Services … Read more
An AI has been developed using a trove of historical photos from WW2 that is able to recognise the identity of photographers based on the content of photos taken by them. Researchers from both Aarhus and Tampere University used AI to trawl through photographs taken by 23 well-known Finnish photographers during the Second World War. … Read more