Office worker launches UK’s first police facial recognition legal action
By: Ed Bridges, Steven Morris May 21, 2019 An office worker who believes his image was captured by facial recognition cameras when he popped out for a sandwich in his lunch break has launched a groundbreaking legal battle against the use of the technology. Supported by the campaign group Liberty, Ed Bridges, from Cardiff, raised […]
U.S. Postal Service Tests Self-Driving Trucks
By: npr May 21,2019 The U.S. Postal Service is experimenting with self-driving trucks to move mail across state lines. The USPS has partnered with San Diego-based TuSimple on a two-week pilot program focusing solely on a 1,000-mile route between Dallas and Phoenix. TuSimple’s chief product officer Chuck Price told NPR the test runs, which began […]
Amazon’s AI improves emotion detection in voices
By: Kyle Wiggers MAY 21 2019 Much can be gleaned from the tone of someone’s voice, which is a natural conduit for emotion. And emotion has a range of applications: It can aid in health-monitoring by helping detect early signs of dementia or heart attack, and it has the potential to make conversational AI systems […]
Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice
By: Karen Hao May 20, 2019 The results aren’t perfect, but you can sort of hear how Google’s translator was able to retain the voice and tone of the original speaker. It can do this because it converts audio input directly to audio output without any intermediary steps. In contrast, traditional translational systems convert audio […]
PAL: A wearable system for context-aware health and cognition support
By: Ingrid Fadelli May 20, 2019 Researchers at MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable platform that provides real-time, personalized, and context-aware health and cognition support. Their system, called personalized active learner (PAL), was presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled the development of tools that can […]
MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
By: Danny Crichton May 20, 2019 The Pentagon is one of the largest technology customers in the world, purchasing everything from F-35 planes (roughly $90 million each) to cloud services (the JEDI contract was $10 billion). Despite outlaying hundreds of billions of dollars for acquisitions though, the Defense Department has struggled to push nascent technologies […]
Machine Learning may help capture fusion energy on Earth
By: Pranjal Mehar May 19, 2019 Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs that can access data and use it to learn for themselves. Machine learning (ML), a […]
How deep medicine will revolutionize health care
By: Eric Topol May 19, 2019 Machines can help doctors by spotting abnormalities in X-rays or MRA scans that the physicians themselves may have missed. A.I. can also help physicians by analyzing data and, through the use of algorithms, produce possible diagnoses. The freed up time, as doctors make their rounds, can help physicians establish […]
IVF ‘alters evolution’ by passing on faulty genes
By:Jonathan Leake May 19, 2019 Artificial fertilisation is altering human evolution by letting the “subfertile” or “disease prone” have babies when nature would normally stop them, a leading fertility researcher has claimed. The procedure means defective genes that would normally die with the carrier are instead transmitted to future generations, Dr Hans Hanevik will tell […]