INTERVIEW: AI expert warns of ‘digital colonization’ in Africa
2 January 2024SDGs Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new “colonization” of the continent by this new…
Weighing the Prophecies of AI Doom
Researchers surveyed point to AI’s existential risk; critics showcase study’s red flags As the steady hum of artificial intelligence activity carries on from 2023 into the new year, the research group AI Impacts has released the results of their most recent outlook survey among AI researchers…
Play Infinite Versions of AI-Generated Pong on the Go
A Raspberry Pi Pico W Handheld Writes Its Own Games AI TOOLSOPENAIRASPBERRY PI PICO WAI PROGRAMMINGCODEXCOPILOT THERE IS CURRENTLY A lot of interest in AI tools designed to help programmers write software. GitHub’s Copilot and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer apply deep-learning techniques originally developed for generating natural-language text by…
AI Everywhere, All at Once
It’s time to get serious about regulating artificial intelligence HARRY GOLDSTEIN 31 MAY 2023 3 MIN READ DANIEL ZENDER It’s been a frenetic six months since OpenAI introduced its large language model ChatGPT to the world at the end of last year. Every day…
HOW GENERATIVE AI HELPED ME IMAGINE A BETTER ROBOT
It didn’t give me schematics, but it did boost my creativity THIS YEAR, 2023, WILL probably be remembered as the year of generative AI. It is still an open question whether generative AI will change our lives for the better. One…
SMOKEY THE AI
Smart image analysis algorithms, fed by cameras carried by drones and ground vehicles, can help power companies prevent forest fires The 2021 Dixie Fire in northern California is suspected of being caused by Pacific Gas & Electric’s equipment. The fire…
AWS and NVIDIA expand partnership to advance generative AI
About the Author By Ryan Daws | November 29, 2023 Categories: Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Companies, NVIDIA, Robotics, Ryan is a senior editor at TechForge Media with over a decade of experience covering the latest technology and interviewing leading industry figures. He can often be sighted at tech conferences…
What to do about AI in health?
Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes. Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health Publication Date: January 23,…
Google’s New AI Is Learning to Diagnose Patients
The DeepMind and Google Research teams turn to medicine with AMIE Navigating health care systems as a patient can be daunting at the best of times, whether you’re interpreting jargon-filled diagnoses or determining which specialists to see next. Similarly, doctors…
The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI
Jurisdictions joust over toxic chatbots; policymakers ponder existential risks During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial intelligence. In the near term, many fear that chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will flood…