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Dec 28, 2019

Thieves are now using AI deepfakes to trick companies into sending them money

Posted by in categories: economics, finance, law, robotics/AI

That might explain things…


There may soon be serious financial and legal ramifications to the proliferation of deepfake technology. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a UK energy company’s chief executive was tricked into wiring €200,000 to a Hungarian supplier because he believed his boss was instructing him to do so. Instead, it was a thief using deepfake tech.

Dec 27, 2019

Sorry Truckers, Volvo’s Autonomous Vehicles Can Handle it From Here

Posted by in categories: employment, robotics/AI, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMREUiQZSIs

To start, Volvo’s Vera will ferry goods from a logistics center to a port in Gothenburg, Sweden. But more Veras will eventually mean fewer trucking jobs.

Dec 26, 2019

Finally, machine learning interprets gene regulation clearly

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI

In this age of “big data,” artificial intelligence (AI) has become a valuable ally for scientists. Machine learning algorithms, for instance, are helping biologists make sense of the dizzying number of molecular signals that control how genes function. But as new algorithms are developed to analyze even more data, they also become more complex and more difficult to interpret. Quantitative biologists Justin B. Kinney and Ammar Tareen have a strategy to design advanced machine learning algorithms that are easier for biologists to understand.

The algorithms are a type of artificial neural network (ANN). Inspired by the way neurons connect and branch in the brain, ANNs are the computational foundations for advanced machine learning. And despite their name, ANNs are not exclusively used to study brains.

Biologists, like Tareen and Kinney, use ANNs to analyze data from an experimental method called a “massively parallel reporter assay” (MPRA) which investigates DNA. Using this data, quantitative biologists can make ANNs that predict which molecules control in a process called gene regulation.

Dec 26, 2019

Scientists harness AI to reverse ageing in billion-dollar industry

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

Race on to find proven ways to help people live longer, healthier lives.

Dec 26, 2019

Revisiting the rise of A.I.: How far has artificial intelligence come since 2010?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In terms of the number and scale of its success stories, the 2010s have a good claim for being the greatest 10 years in the history of artificial intelligence. What were the biggest advances in A.I. over the past decade? Digital Trends takes a trip down recent memory lane.

Dec 26, 2019

The Construction Robots Building Space Colonies

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Sending construction robots into outer space will help pave the way for human exploration, but there are some real challenges that lie ahead.

Dec 26, 2019

Podcast #39: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, featuring whurley

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, quantum physics, robotics/AI

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley.

Dec 26, 2019

The “Father of Artificial Intelligence” Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away

Posted by in categories: government, robotics/AI, singularity

All evidence points to the fact that the singularity is coming (regardless of which futurist you believe).


But what difference does it make? We are talking about a difference of just 15 years. The real question is, is the singularity actually on its way?

At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I spoke with Jürgen Schmidhuber, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AI company NNAISENSE, Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, and heralded by some as the “father of artificial intelligence” to find out.

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Dec 26, 2019

This AI Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloaks

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

We’re one step closer to channeling our inner Harry Potters.

Dec 26, 2019

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.