Computing
Success With Machine Learning Projects In Python
What does it mean for a machine to learn? In a way, machines learn just like humans. They infer patterns from data through a combination of experience and instruction. In this article, we will give you a sense of the applications for machine learning and explain why Python is a perfect choice for getting started. …
LLNL Develops Optical Capability For Thin-film Neural Implants To Look Into Brain Activity
Combining hybrid polymer materials with microfabrication and 3D printing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed an ultra-compact, lightweight and minimally invasive optoelectronic neural implant that could be used for long-term studies of brain activity. The new implantable devices are built upon a new platform LLNL researchers are calling POEMS (Polymeric Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and represent …
It Takes A Lot Of Energy For Machines To Learn – Here’s Why AI Is So Power-Hungry
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in Google Search and other text analysis products. Among the risks is the large carbon footprint of developing …
Darktrace Wins ‘Best AI Provider’ And ‘Email Security Award’ In Computing Technology Awards
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has announced that it has been named ‘Best AI/Machine Learning Provider’ in Computing’s 2020 Technology Product Awards, which aim to recognise the very best of the UK’s technology industry. In addition, Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst technology won ‘Security Innovation of the Year’ and its AI-powered email security solution …
Girls Who Code – ‘Big’ Program Goes Virtual
Livermore High School freshman Amber Belk is focused on studying chemical engineering in college, but through the Girls Who Code – “Big” program, she gained a new appreciation for how high performance computers that can model the types of molecules she will be studying. “Writing software codes and using the Linux operating system was really …
Study: Computing Is Made In America (But Not Just By Americans)
It’s no secret that algorithms run the world, powering everything from Google’s search results to Uber’s car-pool capabilities. But farther under the hood are a more fundamental set of algorithms that underpin computing: if Google PageRank is the engine, these algorithms are the parts it’s built from. To date, there haven’t been any long-term studies …
What Is An Algorithm? How Computers Know What To Do With Data
The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm. In the most general sense, an algorithm is a series of instructions telling a computer how to transform a set of facts about the world into useful …
Microsoft Had A Crazy Idea To Put Servers Under Water—And It Totally Worked
A little over two years ago, a shipping container-sized cylinder bearing Microsoft’s name and logo was lowered onto the ocean floor off the northern coast of Scotland. Inside were 864 servers, and their submersion was part of the second phase of the software giant’s Project Natick. Launched in 2015, the project’s purpose is to determine …
We Have Greater Moral Obligations To Robots Than To Humans
Down goes HotBot 4b into the volcano. The year is 2050 or 2150, and artificial intelligence has advanced sufficiently that such robots can be built with human-grade intelligence, creativity and desires. HotBot will now perish on this scientific mission. Does it have rights? In commanding it to go down, have we done something morally wrong? …
There Is No Difference Between Computer Art And Human Art
In December 1964, over a single evening session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded the entirety of A Love Supreme. This jazz album is considered Coltrane’s masterpiece – the culmination of his spiritual awakening – and sold a million copies. What it represents is all too human: a climb out …