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How people are using AI to detect and fight the coronavirus

The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour. The growing worldwide public health emergency is threatening lives, but it’s also impacting businesses and disrupting travel around the world. The OECD warns that coronavirus could cut global economic growth in half, and the Federal Reserve will cut the federal interest rates following the…
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An algorithm could make CPUs a cheap way to train AI

AI is the backbone of technologies such as Alexa and Siri — digital assistants that rely on deep machine learning to do their thing. But for the makers of these products — and others that rely on AI — getting them “trained” is an expensive and often time-consuming process. Now, scientists from Rice University have found a way to train deep neural nets more quickly…
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Podcast: Solving AI’s black box problem

What happens when you don’t know why a smart system made a specific decision? AI’s infamous black box system is a big problem, whether you’re an engineer debugging a system or a person wondering why a facial-recognition unlock system doesn’t perform as accurately on…
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OECD on AI Policy Observatory launch: ‘The technology is not terribly well understood by policy makers’

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development has officially launched its AI Policy Observatory, a project whose mission is to share best practices around the creation of artificial intelligence regulations. The interactive website contains a wealth of information designed to help politicians and regulators stay on top of a rapidly evolving field. The AI Policy Observatory was…
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Apple blocks Clearview AI's iPhone app

Won’t someone just let Clearview AI invade our privacy in peace? After having its full client list stolen and leaked on the internet, the controversial facial recognition startup is now in hot water with Apple. The iPhone maker has blocked Clearview’s iPhone app over violating the rules of its enterprise software program, TechCrunch reports. Clearview was relying on an enterprise…
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