• The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans

    The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans
    In a delightful display of fucking around and finding out, the BBC recently decided to test the patience of the famously calm fandom that is the audience of Doctor Who by announcing that the sci-fi franchise was the perfect place for it to start experimenting with the use of generative AI in its marketing. Things did…Read more...
  • Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments

    Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments
    San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experimentFor the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States.Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving th
  • AI to track hedgehog populations in pioneering UK project

    AI to track hedgehog populations in pioneering UK project
    National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme aims to understand why population has declinedArtificial intelligence will be used for the first time to track hedgehog populations as part of a pioneering project aimed at understanding how many of them are left in the UK and why they have suffered a decline.Images of the prickly mammals snuffling around urban parks, private gardens, woodlands and farmland will be captured by cameras and filtered by AI trained to differentiate between wildlife and humans.