A new report from GlobalData finds that professionals now believe AR will disrupt their industry more than AI. 70 percent of the 2,341 respondents across 30 business sectors picked AR as disrupting their industry most out of a selection of seven emerging technologies: AI, cybersecurity, cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, and 5G. Filipe Oliveira, Senior Analyst […]
British artificial intelligence giant DeepMind has released a database of nearly all human protein structures that it amassed as part of its AlphaFold program. Last year, the organisers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) recognised AlphaFold as a solution to the grand challenge of figuring out what shapes proteins fold into. […]
A patent from Apple suggests the company is considering how machine learning can make augmented reality (AR) more useful. Most current AR applications are somewhat gimmicky, with barely a handful that have achieved any form of mass adoption. Apple’s decision to introduce LiDAR in its recent devices has given AR a boost but it’s clear […]
A major crowdsourced study has found that YouTube’s AI is still recommending most of the videos that users regret viewing. Mozilla launched a study using a crowdsourced army of volunteers that found, of the content the users regretted viewing, 71 percent were recommendations from YouTube’s AI. Are your @YouTube recommendations sometimes lies? Conspiracy theories? Or […]
GitHub’s impressive new code-assisting AI tool called Copilot is receiving both praise and criticism. Copilot draws context from the code that a developer is working on and can suggest entire lines or functions. The system, from OpenAI, claims to be “significantly more capable than GPT-3” in generating code and can help even veteran programmers to […]
From the company’s owner, not your favourite TikTok influencer. Behind every successful TikTok video is a bunch of clever algorithms helping to make it a viral sensation. The company’s owner, ByteDance, launched a new division last month called BytePlus which sells TikTok’s AI technologies. Up for grabs is the recommendation algorithm behind the ForYou feed, […]
A group of researchers from Microsoft and seven global leading universities have conducted an industry study into the threat offensive AI is posing to organisations. AIs are beneficial tools but are indiscriminate in also providing assistance to individuals and groups that set out to cause harm. The researchers’ study into offensive AI used both existing […]
Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released its latest MLPerf Training community benchmark results. MLPerf Training is a full system benchmark that tests machine learning models, software, and hardware. The results are split into two divisions: closed and open. Closed submissions are better for comparing like-for-like performance as they use the same reference model to ensure […]
GitHub is helping developers to speed up and clean up their code with a new AI-powered tool that it calls Copilot. GitHub Copilot uses an AI system from OpenAI known as OpenAI Codex. The system claims to have a broad knowledge of how people use code and claims to be “significantly more capable than GPT-3” […]
Cambridge-based AI blockchain startup Fetch.ai has launched a DeFi (Decentralised Finance) Agents toolkit to greatly improve the experience of such “Web 3.0” applications. Fetch.ai made our innovative companies to watch in 2021 list for its grand vision to build a decentralised network of autonomous “agents” that perform real-world tasks. For most companies, that plan could […]