AI
Ghost post! Google creates world’s most powerful computer, NASA ‘accidentally reveals’ …and then publication vanishes
FILE PHOTO © Pixabay / Pete Linforth Google’s new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world’s top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA “accidentally” shared the firm’s research. The software engineers at Google have built the world’s…
Read More »Google confirms acquisition of data science community Kaggle
Amid rumours, Google has confirmed the acquisition of Kaggle, a community platform full of data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts. On Wednesday, Google said in a blog post that Kaggle will be joining Google Cloud, in which the skills of Kaggle’s team will be put to use in machine learning training and…
Read More »Jordan Peterson: The deepfake artists must be stopped before we no longer know what’s real
Something very strange and disturbing happened to me recently. If it was just relevant to me, it wouldn’t be that important (except perhaps to me), and I wouldn’t be writing this column. But it’s something that is likely more important and more ominous than we can even imagine. There are…
Read More »The Role of Explainable AI (XAI) in Regulating AI Behavior: Delivery of “Perfect” Information
Before presenting my thoughts on XAI as a behavior-regulating feature, it is important to recap an excerpt from what I wrote last month in my “five observations” post: Regulating AI behavior is necessary in order to mitigate harm. One approach for achieving this is imposing a legal requirement that prior…
Read More »Artificial Intelligence Policies in East Asia: An Overview from the Canadian Perspective
Artificial Intelligence Policies in East Asia: An Overview from the Canadian Perspectiveprovides an overview of policies on artificial intelligence (AI) from three East Asian countries – China, Japan, and South Korea. This new report focuses on government policies, talent management, and ethical, legal, and social implications of AI, tomorrow’s leading…
Read More »Can Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Consumer Privacy Concerns For Digital Advertisers?
Regulations governing marketing messages, whether phone calls, direct mail or digital, have historically required consumers to “opt-out” of receiving unwanted messages. This is in contrast to many other countries in which advertising messages cannot be sent unless the consumer opts-in. Recently, however, in part in reaction to Europe’s new General Data Privacy…
Read More »This bot could ruin online poker
One of the world’s best poker players doesn’t have a poker face. In fact, it doesn’t have any face at all. Pluribus, an AI program, has demonstrated it can beat human pros in six-player, no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em, the most popular variant of online poker, according to its creators, researchers…
Read More »Loblaw says ‘overzealous’ data-algorithm use hampered sales in second-quarter
Canada’s largest grocery and pharmacy chain saw sluggish same-store sales at Loblaw Cos. Ltd. food stores in the most recent quarter as an “overzealous” attempt to implement algorithms using consumer data to increase profits ate into profits. The company, based in Brampton, Ont., reported Wednesday a second-quarter profit of $286-million,…
Read More »A.I. Uses Expected to Expand as U.S. Consumers Warm Up to Trading Data for Convenience
Artificial intelligence is a hot investment for venture capital firms. And as the use of the technology expands, some investors expect consumers to become more comfortable with offering their data for added convenience. U.S. consumers are still on the fence about the use of A.I. to crunch massive amounts of…
Read More »Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
PERHAPS BECAUSE IT lies at the perfect nexus of genuinely-very-complicated and impossibly-confounded-by-marketing-buzzword-speak, the term “AI” has become a catchall for anything algorithmic and sufficiently technologically impressive. AI, which is supposed to stand for “artificial intelligence,” now spans applications from cameras to the military to medicine. The race is on, and if…
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