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London Authority Seeks Views On Personal Data And ‘Smart London’

The public survey will look for opinions on how personal data should be exploited, in the wake of earlier data protection scandals

Hampshire County Council Trials Amazon’s Alexa For Social Care

The council says smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo can improve clients’ quality of life and cut councils’ costs

Microsoft Builds AI Into Windows 10 With Spring Update

The Windows ML artificial intelligence platform will help Windows gadgets carry out machine learning tasks themselves, instead of sending them to the cloud

‘Evolutionary’ AI Tricks Classic Video Game Q*bert Into Delivering Points Overdrive

New research demonstrates evolutionary techniques may hold promise for training artificial intelligences of the future

Artificial Intelligence Poses Risk From Malicious Actors

Bolster your AI defences. Experts warn of serious risks within a five year period due to recent advances in AI

AI To Be Taught To Schoolkids Thanks To Deep Learning Kit

UK teenagers are to be taught about artificial intelligence with the launch of a new deep learning teaching kit

Amazon Go Brings Checkout-Free Supermarket To Public

Amazon Go relies on sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence to tell when customers are taking items from shelves, eliminating checkout queues

Jaguar Land Rover To Establish Ireland Software Development Centre

The research centre, staffed by 150 engineers, is to be located in Shannon, western Ireland, where Intel also has a research facility

Smartphones ‘Can Be Unlocked’ Using Covert Sensor Data

Singapore researchers used sensor information freely available to any mobile app to unlock Android phones in only three tries

DeepMind Chief Recognised In New Year Honours List

Demis Hassabis has been named CBE for breakthroughs by the controversial Google-owned British artificial intelligence company

Trade Union Worried About AI-Driven School Inspections

National Association of Head Teachers cautions against machine learning scheme for school inspections

Microsoft Azure Bot Service Opens To Developers

Its good to talk. Redmond to deliver conversational AI to more developers as its Azure Bot Service is opened up

IBM Touts AI Credentials Of New POWER9 Server

Developers can build AI applications quicker thanks to new and more powerful big iron from IBM

Google To Release AI Vision Kit For Raspberry Pi Zero W

The kit includes all the elements needed to make artificially intelligent vision gadgets, with AI tasks carried out on an included Intel chip

Join A Trade Union Before Your Boss Replaces You With AI

CBI calls on government to establish technology commission involving employee representatives

Google Says Its AI Can Program AI Better Than Humans Can

Google’s AutoML programme, announced earlier this year, has now produced machine-learning models that outperform hand-built ones

Government Review Lays Out Steps To Boost UK’s AI Industry

‘Data trusts’ should be formed to ensure information is shared securely, while guidance should be developed on how to explain AI to a wary public

Boxworks 2017: Box Adds ‘Skills’ Machine Learning Tools To Cloud Platform

Box details first machine learning tools powered by IBM Watson, Azure and GCP at Boxworks 2017, alongside Box Skills tool kits for custom processes

Rolls-Royce Uses Google Cloud To Build Autonomous Ships

Rolls-Royce is to use Google’s machine learning technology to train intelligent, cloud-based systems for recognising and tracking objects at sea

AI Expo North America

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