Tag: machine learning

• This colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI

  April 23, 2019

  The rise of AI-powered surveillance is extremely worrying. The ability of governments to track and identify citizens en masse could spell an end to public anonymity. But as researchers have… more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  March 18, 2019

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• Stores get smart about AI

  March 18, 2019

    From personalised recommendations to targeted newsletter offers, artificial intelligence is a bedrock of e-commerce. Key takeaways: https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-physical-stores-kering-nike-alibaba more ›

• Why The Future Isn’t Digital

  February 22, 2019

  In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics.  There’s a great… more ›

• Analytics are reshaping fashion’s old-school instincts

  February 14, 2019

  When Detroit-based luxury goods brand Shinola began working on its new Vinton watch, the team designed with a woman in mind, but testing the product through analytics platform MakerSights, which… more ›

• Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

  February 13, 2019

  I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›

• Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

  December 7, 2018

  Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding Turns out mastering chess and Go was just for starters. On 2 December, the Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind took top honors in the 13th… more ›

• [Essay] Known Unknowns | New Dark Age by James Bridle | Harper’s Magazine

  July 22, 2018

  [Essay] Known Unknowns | New Dark Age by James Bridle | Harper’s Magazine This cautionary tale, repeated often in the academic literature on machine learning, is probably apocryphal, but it… more ›

• London: The AI Growth Capital of Europe

  June 18, 2018

  London: The AI Growth Capital of Europe » AI innovation across London London’s unique strengths as a global hub of Artificial Intelligence. more ›