UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has greenlit a series of AI-based projects that aim to tackle racial inequalities in the NHS. Racial inequality continues to be rampant in healthcare. Examining the fallout of COVID-19 serves as yet another example of the disparity between ethnicities. In England and Wales, males of Black African ethnic background had […]
Damning reports about the ineffectiveness of Facebook’s AI in countering hate speech prompted the firm to publish a post to the contrary, but the company’s own internal documents highlight serious failures. Facebook has had a particularly rough time as of late, with a series of Wall Street Journal reports in particular claiming the company knows […]
China is pulling ahead of global rivals when it comes to innovative AI “unicorns” that are pushing the technology forward. Research from GlobalData has found that – of the 45 international AI unicorns identified – China has the largest share with 19 based in the country. Priya Toppo, Analyst of Thematic Research at GlobalData, comments: […]
London-based AI pioneer BenevolentAI has identified a novel target for ulcerative colitis through its drug discovery platform. The candidate was identified by scientists who used BenevolentAI’s target ID tools and machine learning models to identify and experimentally validate a novel biological target. Impressively, the achievement was made without any prior reference in published alliteration or […]
A leading IT industry body has warned that human reviews of AI decisions are in need of legal protection. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, made the warning amid the launch of the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation launched by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The consultation aims to re-examine the […]
Nvidia and Microsoft have developed an incredible 530 billion parameter AI model, but it still suffers from bias. The pair claim their Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLG) model is the “most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date”. For comparison, OpenAI’s much-lauded GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. The duo trained their impressive model on […]
Rigetti has unveiled a “commercially ready” quantum computer in the UK amid increasing local public and private investment in the technology. The firm announced last year that it was leading a £10 million government- and industry-funded collaboration with the aim of commercialising quantum computing. “We are excited to deliver the UK’s first quantum computer and […]
DeepMind is facing a class-action lawsuit over its controversial use of NHS patients’ health data back in 2015. Google-owned DeepMind was quietly given the personal records of 1.6 million patients at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. DeepMind said that it was using the data to create a potentially life-saving app called Streams. The […]
Google is getting a little help from its MUM (Multitask Unified Model) to add more context to search results. MUM was announced at Google I/O in May and aims to transform how the web giant handles complex queries. The model uses the T5 text-to-text framework and is said to be “1,000 times more powerful” than […]
US-based Paravision has announced updates to boost its computer vision and facial recognition capabilities across mobile, on-premise, edge, and cloud deployments. “From cloud to edge, Paravision’s goal is to help our partners develop and deploy transformative solutions around face recognition and computer vision,” said Joey Pritikin, Chief Product Officer at Paravision. “With these sweeping updates […]