Artificial Intelligence
Why Hasn’t AI Mastered Language Translation?
In the myth about the Tower of Babel, people conspired to build a city and tower that would reach heaven. Their creator observed, “And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” According to the myth, God thwarted this effort by creating diverse languages so that they could no longer …
To Create A Super-Intelligent Machine, Start With An Equation
Intelligence is a very difficult concept and, until recently, no one has succeeded in giving it a satisfactory formal definition. Most researchers have given up grappling with the notion of intelligence in full generality, and instead focus on related but more limited concepts – but I argue that mathematically defining intelligence is not only possible, …
Using Machine Learning To Hunt Down Cybercriminals
Hijacking IP addresses is an increasingly popular form of cyber-attack. This is done for a range of reasons, from sending spam and malware to stealing Bitcoin. It’s estimated that in 2017 alone, routing incidents such as IP hijacks affected more than 10 percent of all the world’s routing domains. There have been major incidents at Amazon and Google and even in nation-states — a study last year suggested …
Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Fight Climate Change. But It Has An Energy Problem, Too
AI is changing the way we work, live and solve challenges. It can improve healthcare, protect elephants from poachers, and work out how broadband should be distributed. But it could be most valuable as a range of applications helping humanity fight our biggest threat – climate change. AI can strengthen climate predictions, enable smarter decision-making …
An Intelligence In Our Image: The Risks Of Bias And Errors In Artificial Intelligence
Right now, artificial intelligence (AI) and countless algorithms are integrated into our daily life. Because of the efficiency they bring into the table, the use of AI is only expected to widen. With humanity becoming more and more reliant on this technology, it is only natural to think about the implications. In contrast to the common …
Turing Test: Why It Still Matters
We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting like humans, we will increasingly be faced with the question of whether there’s really anything that special about our own intelligence, or if we are just machines of a different kind. Could everything we know and do one …
Singapore Is Crowned As The Most AI-Ready City. But, Is The World Truly Ready For AI?
Singapore attains the highest rank in the AI Readiness Index 2019 report. Here is the list of the top 20 cities. The AI Readiness Index was created by the Oliver Wyman Forum to serve as a metric of the capability of a city to thrive and adapt once the age of AI comes. How …
Artificial Intelligence: Here’s What You Need To Know To Understand How Machines Learn
From Jeopardy winners and Go masters to infamous advertising-related racial profiling, it would seem we have entered an era in which artificial intelligence developments are rapidly accelerating. But a fully sentient being whose electronic “brain” can fully engage in complex cognitive tasks using fair moral judgement remains, for now, beyond our capabilities. Unfortunately, current developments …
What Does An Open Source AI Future Look Like?
The recent announcement about Neuralink, Elon Musk’s latest startup, added to the buzz already in the air about where tech is taking us in the not-so-distant future. Judging by its ambitious plans, which involve pairing computers wirelessly with the human brain, Neuralink demonstrates that the future is now. And a big part of that future is …
Who Is Investing In AI?
It is undeniable — the AI market is booming. Tractica predicts that the global artificial intelligence (AI) software revenue will grow from the already quite impressive US $9.5 billion back in 2018 to an even more astounding US $ 118.6 by 2025. What exactly is driving this growth? While massive companies such as Amazon contribute …