Playing Dota 2? You can do better with a little help from machine learning.
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Having trouble playing the latest video game? New AI tools can learn how you and others play, and help you be a better player.
An apparently unidentified object detected on a Navy plane’s infrared camera.
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During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, the inability to identify an object within an area of operation represents a significant problem.
Yorkshire floods, 2014.
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Artificial intelligence can help manage floods effectively, but decisions about which communities are protected require a human touch.
Would you let AI decide who you should vote for?
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Plenty of services use AI to study your behaviour to suggest new things to you. So could such a tool help you decide how to vote?
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A human knows that four cats, four apples and the symbol 4 all have one thing in common – the abstract concept of ‘four’. Now robots are catching up.
Social and cognitive skills such as drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable to being displaced by AI.
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A shift to outcomes-based education will enable students to gain critical automation-resistant competencies to succeed and thrive in the future workforce alongside AI.
Rapidly advancing technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D-printing, smart-phones, smart-homes, precision medicine and diagnostics, promise to disrupt health care as we know it.
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In an era of rapid technological advance, devastating climate change, increasing inequality and a steadily aging society, health-care leadership development is vital.
Could a machine do better?
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Artificial intelligence is being used to diagnose breast cancers from early mammogram tests.
Technology can significantly improve governments’ surveillance abilities.
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Even governments in democracies with strong traditions of rule of law find themselves tempted to abuse these new abilities.
A SenseTime artificial intelligence system monitors an intersection in China.
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AI can help make government more efficient – but at what cost? Citizens’ lives could be better or worse, based on how the technology is used.
Quantum mechanics could unlock new forms of machine learning.
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Quantum machine learning is an exciting and rapidly growing field.
Do you know what happens when you share your data?
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Technology experts have long worried about a ‘digital divide’ between those who could use computers and those who could not. Artificial intelligence algorithms are widening the gulf.
Who needs a worker checking shelves when you have a robot?
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Two management experts devised a new way to predict whether your job is likely to get stolen by a robot – and what you can do about it.
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Conducting research and contributing to knowledge creation might be the only way for academics to sustain their jobs.
As machine learning progresses, its applications include faster, more accurate medical diagnoses.
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A research lab at the University of Saskatchewan is pursuing the applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to healthcare diagnoses.
AI researchers think there is a 50% chance AI will outperform humans in all tasks in 45 years and that almost all current human jobs can be automated in 120 years.
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There is little evidence of any strategic planning by Australia’s federal and state governments to deal with social dislocation caused by AI-driven automation.
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The first thing to know is that Siri is not a “who” – Siri is a “what”.
Is this face just an assembly of computer bits?
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When artificial intelligence systems try to behave like humans and make mistakes, they show their limits – but also their startling advances.
Artificial intelligence needs to be developed with an ethical framework.
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the way we live, work, communicate and travel. So long as it’s designed that way.
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To help establish South Africa’s gaming industry as a viable career path for more diverse participants, more support for the technical training required has to be considered.