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How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

February 11, 2020
Imagine getting to a courthouse and seeing paper signs stuck to the doors with the message “Systems down.” What about police officers in the field unable to access information on laptops in their vehicles, or surgeries delayed in hospitals? That’s what can happen to a city, police department, or hospital in a ransomware attack. Ransomware is malicious software that can encrypt or control…
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Microsoft’s AI automatically comments on video clips

February 11, 2020
Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the…
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Google Assistant's ambient mode is coming to OnePlus phones

February 11, 2020
If you own a OnePlus phone, you may soon be able to control your smart lights or control music playback through an interface that appears when you plug it in. That’s because Android’s Google Assistant-powered ambient mode has started rolling out to the brand’s devices, particularly all OnePlus 3 and newer models. Ambient mode, which takes over the screen while the phone is…
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How enterprise is putting conversational AI to work

February 11, 2020
The market for conversational AI is expected to grow to more than $15 billion by 2024, from $4.2 billion in 2019. And for good reason — the technology is helping enterprises find new value and capabilities. In the enterprise, businesses are leveraging conversational AI for…
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ACLU rejects Clearview AI's facial recognition accuracy claims

February 10, 2020
Clearview AI’s facial recognition isn’t just raising privacy issues — there are also concerns over its accuracy claims. The ACLU has rejected Clearview’s assertion that its technology is “100% accurate” based on the civil liberty group’s methodology for testing Amazon’s Rekognition, telling BuzzFeed News that the findings are “absurd on many…
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Arm unveils 2 new AI edge computing chips

February 10, 2020
Semiconductor and software design company Arm is doubling down on edge AI hardware, a market that’s expected to be worth $1.15 billion by 2023. It today announced two new AI-capable processors — the Arm Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55, a neural processing unit (NPU) —…
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An AI regulation strategy that could really work

February 8, 2020
When even the companies developing AI themselves agree with the need for regulation, it is time to stop discussing abstract principles and get down to the business of how to regulate a rapidly advancing technology landscape. It is clear that our regulatory system needs an update. If we try to regulate 21st century technology and beyond with 20th century tools, we’ll get none of the…
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