Artificial Intelligence news

Undead government | French sunbathers and swimmers | Roald Dahl’s AI prescience | Barbie product placement | Election fibsContrary to your letter writer’s claim (10 August), Rafael Behr chose the right term (Britain is trapped in political purgatory – waiting for its undead government to fall, 9 August). Hell is permanent, but purgatory is temporary – you get out eventually. And while paradise isn’t on offer to voters, we could have government for the many, not the

Skydio, maker of the most autonomous consumer drone there ever was, has announced that it is getting out of the consumer drone space completely, as of this past week. The company will be focusing on “over 1,500 enterprise and public sector customers” that are, to be fair, doing many useful and important things with Skydio drones rather than just shooting videos of themselves like the rest of us. Sigh.By a lot of metrics, the Skydio 2 is (was?) the most capable drone that it was possi

Technology proves able to identify dozens of species in thousands of hours of recordingsResearchers have developed arrays of AI-controlled cameras and microphones to identify animals and birds and to monitor their movements in the wild – technology, they say, that should help tackle Britain’s growing biodiversity problem.The robot monitors have been tested at three sites and have captured sounds and images from which computers were able to identify specific species and map their loca