Moravec‘s Paradox

by Sandra Erwin — November 22, 2020 Halifax International Security Forum host Jeanne Meserve interviews Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond and Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s space business, Nov. 21, 2020. Credit: Halifax International Security Forum Gen. John Raymond said the Space Force wants to be…

Builder eBob — A new generation of machines is automating a tech-averse industry. Will Knight, wired.com - Nov 22, 2020 11:45 am UTC Theresa Arevalo was in high school when she first tried finishing drywall at her brother’s construction company. “It’s a fine art,” she says of mudding—applying and smoothing…

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With so much riding on the performance and accuracy of artificial intelligence algorithms -- from medical diagnoses to legal advice to financial planning -- there have been calls for the "professionalization" of AI developers, through mechanisms such as certifications and accreditations, all the way up to government mandates. After all,…

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The Lagos State Government, on Thursday, November 19, 2020, read the riot act to motorcycle and tricycle operators, following the flagrant violation of the traffic laws and other anomalies on its roads. This statement by the state government is coming after the recent clash between the Lagos State Task Force…

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Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. That’s why MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Reporter Karen Hao created a flowchart to explain it all. In this bonus content our Host Jennifer Strong and her team…

The news: A new AI model for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they want to read. On November 16, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) rolled out the model onto its flagship product, Semantic Scholar, an AI-powered scientific…

Cognitive technologies are being deployed to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Here’s how enterprises can put cognitive AI to work. MetamorWorks / Getty Images Businesses across all sectors are taking a keen interest in the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to address its most pressing challenges. AI is already known…