Artificial Intelligence news

Law and finance sectors could be among most affected, according toorganisation’s employment outlookMajor economies are on the “cusp of an AI revolution” that could trigger job losses in skilled professions such as law, medicine and finance, according to an influential international organisation.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said the occupations at highest risk from AI-driven automation were highly skilled jobs and represented about 27% of emp

Department of Work and Pensions warned by auditor general about potential bias in algorithms The government has widened its deployment of artificial intelligence to uncover welfare fraud, despite warnings of algorithmic bias against groups of vulnerable claimants.In a £70m investment applying “advanced analytics” to requests for universal credit (UC), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the use of machine learning as it attempts to save more than £1bn

Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ byjudges, even though it was taken on her mobileFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSuzi Dougherty was chuffed when a happy snap she took of her son on her iPhone turned out so well.She was so happy with the sharp, colour-saturated picture of him posing with mannequins at a Gucci exhibition that she got a copy print

Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by local judges even though it was taken on her mobileGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSuzi Dougherty was chuffed when a happy snap she took of her son on her iPhone turned out so well.She was so happy with the sharp, colour-saturated picture of him posing with mannequins at a Gucci exhibition that she got a copy printed off for her mum and entered it in a local photogr

It never gets any easier to watch: a control room full of engineers, waiting anxiously as the robotic probe they’ve worked on for years nears the surface of the moon. Telemetry from the spacecraft says everything is working; landing is moments away. But then the vehicle goes silent, and the control room does too, until, after an agonizing wait, the project leader keys a microphone to say the landing appears to have failed. The last time this happened was in April, in this case to a private