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PROMO You can have all the data in the world, but without teasing out the connections hidden within, it’s still just a pile of random information.…
DSEI 2021 The British armed forces will be using robots as part of future warfare – but mostly for the “dull, dangerous and dirty” parts of military life, senior officers have said.…
Researchers have found that business adoption of robots and other forms of automation is largely driven by labor shortages.…
The protection of human rights should be front and centre of any decision to implement AI-based systems regardless of whether they’re used as corporate tools such as recruitment or in areas such as law enforcement.…
Makeup carefully applied to the forehead, cheeks, and nose may help you evade facial recognition systems, judging from these computer scientists’ experimental work.…
The United States Airforce (USAF) has unveiled Project Kaiju, a $150m (£108m) effort to build “cognitive electronic warfare” systems capable of operating entirely autonomously – to be run under Godzilla’s watchful eye.…
In Brief Microsoft and AWS reportedly [PDF] scored subcontracts totalling $50m with the US Department of Defense to develop algorithms capable of recognizing objects from military drone footage after Google pulled out from the controversial Project Maven.…
Feature The next time you ask Alexa to turn off your bedroom lights or make a computer write dodgy code, spare a thought for the planet. The back-end mechanics that make it all possible take up a lot of power, and these systems are getting hungrier.…
Opinion Tech rarely touches the soul. It enrages when social media pours petrol on hotheads. It inspires when Hubble comes back to life and delivers more cosmic awe. It pays our bills when we work in it, and it empties our pockets when we drunk-eBay that vintage console game collection. But when it brings back a dead lover?…
The UK government has launched a consultation that suggests it could water down individuals’ rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence.…