Pentagon Falling Behind in Using Artificial Intelligence on the Battlefield
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The United States military is falling behind in the race to use artificial intelligence to box adversaries into warfighting corners, the … More details
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Naval Academy midshipmen want to revolutionize artificial intelligence
The Naval Academy’s artificial intelligence conference Tuesday was an opportunity for 15 groups of midshipmen to show off their work to conference … More details
‘Tectonic shift’ of Space Command has intelligence community feeling aftershocks
Now the aftershocks of that shift are being felt in the intelligence community as analysts have to reconsider space’s role in intelligence gathering. More details
Would You Like Fries With That? McDonald’s Already Knows the Answer
The fast-food chain is turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning in the hopes of predicting what customers want before they decide. More details
Zipline Deploys Medical Delivery Drones with U.S. Military
We usually don’t toss around the word “disrupting” in a technology context without some serious eye roll. But Zipline really has been disrupting medical supply delivery in Africa by using drones to bypass busy roads and hilly terrain to deliver medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in minutes rather than hours. We visited Zipline in Rwanda last year, and the system it has for delivering blood, blood products, and medication is versatile, reliable, and even (in some cases) more affordable than any other delivery method available. It’s not at all surprising that the unique capabilities Zipline offers have caught the attention of the U.S. military, which (at least in terms of personnel ratios) is primarily a massive logistics and support organization and secondarily a fighting force. For the past year or so, the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has been working with Zipline to evaluate how their technology could be used Continue reading Zipline Deploys Medical Delivery Drones with U.S. Military
Quantum Computing Gets a Boost From AI and Crowdsourcing
Illustration: Greg Mably Anyone of a certain age who has even a passing interest in computers will remember the remarkable breakthrough that IBM made in 1997 when its Deep Blue chess-playing computer defeated Garry Kasparov, then the world chess champion. Computer scientists passed another such milestone in March 2016, when DeepMind (a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s parent company) announced that its AlphaGo program had defeated world-champion player Lee Sedol in the game of Go, a board game that had vexed AI researchers for decades. Recently, DeepMind’s algorithms have also bested human players in the computer games StarCraft II and Quake Arena III. Some believe that the cognitive capacities of machines will overtake those of human beings in many spheres within a few decades. Others are more cautious and point out that our inability to understand the source of our own cognitive powers presents a daunting hurdle. How can we make Continue reading Quantum Computing Gets a Boost From AI and Crowdsourcing
Rise of artificial intelligence means architects are “doomed” says Sebastian Errazuriz
Ninety per cent of architects will lose their jobs as artificial intelligence takes over the design process, according to designer Sebastian Errazuriz. More details
Artificial Intelligence and Fashion: Confluence of the Century
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the emerging technologies across the world and the fashion world has also had its fair share of impact. More details
Agriculture 4.0: improving animal welfare through artificial intelligence
There is an immense amount of stored data on the health, productivity and behaviour of the sows, piglets and growing pigs in the units at the Boxberg … More details
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change The Banking Industry?
As they say, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, banks are now finding solace in new-age technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain … More details