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The ethics of AI are constantly debated. But does anyone ask the AI?
The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights.
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The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights.
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While military aircraft with innovative technologies are designed to fight wars, they also need to exist safely in our communities.
South African fruit producers use digital technologies such as blockchain and radio frequency identification tags.
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To take full advantage of digital technologies South Africa needs a coherent digital industrial policy.
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Machine learning systems can now aid human intuition to create mathematical conjectures and proofs.
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The best AI chess computer outperforms the best human chess players. Yet the most supreme chess play on Earth comes from a human, helped by AI.
Artificial intelligence has yet to develop the common sense required to identify fake news.
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Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly sophisticated. But we’re still a long way off from AI being able to discern what’s fake news.
Robot and artificial intelligence are poised to increase their influences within our every day lives.
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With advances in technology, robots and artificial intelligence have increasingly more sophisticated encounters with humans.
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Between driverless cars, autonomous weapons and AI-powered medical diagnostic tools, it seems there will be no shortage of ethically-complex situations involving AI in the future.
“Alfie”, a moral choice machine, is pictured in front of an important question during a press conference in Germany.
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Inclusivity and diversity also need to be at the level of identifying values and defining frameworks of what counts as ethical AI in the first place.
Supermarkets could soon display smart packaging, raising potential issues around data privacy and bias.
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Researchers are looking into the potential technological threats to data safety and privacy from the smart supermarkets of the future.
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Individuals who experience suicidal thoughts can show signs of this in the language they use. We analysed more than 100 suicide notes to find these language patterns.
‘The customer is always real.’
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You may not have heard of conversational commerce, but it’s quietly appearing in more and more places.
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The commitment applies to the social network, but not necessarily to the metaverse.
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The pandemic has driven the rapid uptake of programs that use artificial intelligence to monitor students sitting exams remotely. New research highlights the need for caution in its use.
If a piece of writing was 49 per cent written by AI, with the remaining 51 per cent written by a human, is this original work?
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What’s judged to be plagiarism may shift as students rely on more sophisticated forms of technology for writing support.
In a still from a MyHeritage.com video, Abraham Lincoln chats about how he colored and sharpened old family photos to bring them to life.
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Deepfakes could strengthen our engagement with history. But there are dangers to the practice, some obvious, others more subtle.
Art historians have long used traditional X-rays, X-ray fluorescence or infrared imaging to better understand artists’ techniques.
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Breathless headlines of artificial intelligence discovering or restoring lost works of art ignore the fact that these machines rarely, if ever, reveal one secret or solve a single mystery.
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Several schools in Scotland have paused the rollout of facial recognition technology in school canteens following inquiries from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
A CCTV camera sculpture in Toronto draws attention to the increasing surveillance in everyday life. Our guests discuss ways to resist this creeping culture.
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Mass data collection and surveillance have become ubiquitous. For marginalized communities, the stakes of having their privacy violated are high.