The country’s shrinking population and aversion to mass immigration mean it is well placed to embrace robots and AI in the workforce A resident of the Silver Wing Social Care elderly care home in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward chats happily to a staff member in the
2019-04-17
Leading Australian artificial intelligence scientist Professor Toby Walsh is warning that we are "sleepwalking" into an AI future in which billions of machines and computers will be able to think. Professor Walsh, from the University of New South Wales, is
2019-04-17
Artificial intelligence has jumped from sci-fi movie plots into mainstream news headlines in just a couple of years. And the headlines are often contradictory. AI is either a technological leap into greater prosperity or mass unemployment; it will either be
2019-04-17
As expected, Google used the second day of its annual Cloud Next conference to shine a spotlight on its AI tools. The company made a dizzying number of announcements today, but at the core of all of these new tools and services is the company’s plan to
2019-04-16
Computer scientists have developed an artificially intelligent agent that uses conversational language to explain the decisions it makes. After training the AI system to play the popular arcade game Frogger, and documenting how human players explained the
2019-04-16
Things are about to get really interesting. Artificial intelligence has already gone mainstream. Companies are using NVIDIA's (NASDAQ:NVDA) graphics processing units, Xilinx's (NASDAQ:XLNX) field programmable gate arrays, or their own customized chips to
2019-04-16
If you’ve heard of quantum computing, you might be excited about the possibility of applying it to machine learning applications. How can you harness this emerging technology? I work at Springboard, and we recently launched a machine learning bootcamp that
2019-04-16
On Monday I’ll be giving a keynote at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, which is quite surprising even to me, considering I’m a software engineer who can barely solder! Despite that, I knew exactly what I wanted to talk about when I was
2019-04-16
Let's face it: the world of marketing is changing at a breakneck pace. A marketing technique works very well in 2017, but by 2018 an entirely new playbook is in order. One year you're looking to get your brand involved with celeb influencers the next year
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