AI & Robotics

Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to make users think twice before posting videos or photos with offensive captions. Moving forward, whenever someone tries to post a caption that Instagram detects as being potentially offensive, the user will see an alert asking them to reconsider their words. The alert system is entirely automated, with Instagram leaning on data garnered from…

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize financial services. According to the MIT Sloan and Boston Consulting Group’s 2019 Global Executive Study and Research Report, 90% of respondents agree that AI represents a business opportunity for their companies. Firms are investing heavily in AI capabilities, but few have a clear vision for their adoption strategy or a process for…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often likes to assert that AI has substantially cut down on the amount of abuse perpetrated by millions of users, and he’s not wrong — in its most recent Community Standards Enforcement Report, Facebook said it removed more than 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September, compared with just over 1.5 billion during the same period last year. And at least…

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has been pushing the self-driving car industry forward through its subsidiary Waymo. To date, the company has operated primarily within the US, but a recent acquisition demonstrates its interest in expanding internationally as well. As reported by The Guardian, Waymo has bought the UK-based AI company Latent Logic, which specializes in the testing of…