Artificial Intelligence news

Jeremy Hunt to announce a doubling of funding for research at the Alan Turing InstituteJeremy Hunt is planning to provide a budget boost to Britain’s growing artificial intelligence sector through a doubling of funding for the Alan Turing Institute – the national body for data science and artificial intelligence.Despite being restricted in his scope for pre-election giveaways by the weakness of the public finances, the chancellor is expected to announce a five-year package of funding

No evidence to tie fake images, including one created by Florida radio host, to Trump campaign, BBC Panorama investigation findsDozens of fake, artificial intelligence-generated photos showing Donald Trump with Black people are being spread by his supporters, according to a new investigation.BBC Panorama reported that the images appear to be created by supporters themselves. There is no evidence tying the photos to Trump’s campaign. Continue reading...

Buoyed by the AI boom the rally shows no sign of stopping – that’s bizarre, given there is little reason to believe it can lastUS markets close at record highs as enthusiasm for AI drives gainsThere seems to be a bizarre disconnect between the surging US stock market and the sad state of American politics. Winston Churchill supposedly quipped, “Americans always do the right thing, after they have tried everything else.” But in light of the impending rematch between Joe Bi

This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequencesThanks to Michael Wooldridge – his book is called The Road to Conscious Machines.And Melanie Mitchell – her

This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequencesThanks to Michael Wooldridge – his book is called The Road to Conscious Machines.And Melanie Mitchell – her