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If you want to inject AI into your apps, and you can stomach Facebook's code, then have we got some news for you

Reinforcement learning toolkit open-sourced for devs
01 Nov 19:46

'Privacy is a human right': Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft's stall at Future Decoded

It's a triple A-rated keynote: Azure, AI and Accessibility
46 Comments
01 Nov 18:03

IBM struggles to sign up shipping carriers to blockchain supply chain platform – reports

Speculation that running joint venture with shipping giant Maersk might be off-putting to rivals
14 Comments
30 Oct 14:31

It's raining drones, but just one specimen: DJI's Matrice 200 quadcopter

UK's Civil Aviation Authority grounds kit after 'complete loss of power' mid-flight reported
30 Comments
30 Oct 12:27

AI can predict the structure of chemical compounds thousands of times faster than quantum chemistry

Traditional math heavy calculations are just too slow
26 Comments
30 Oct 06:01

Amazon's neural net offer to border cops, Waymo charges fares, the first AI portrait sold at auction, and more

RoundupIncluding: Bonus IBM Watson Health drama
29 Oct 07:01

Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym

Special reportNot a great look for an industry tackling data bias issues
78 Comments
29 Oct 06:03

It's OK, you can pick up real-time IoT analytics – it won't bite... unless you ignore this advice

CommentYour gentle first-steps to processing live information streaming from networked sensors
27 Oct 03:57

Should a robo-car run over a kid or a grandad? Healthy or ill person? Let's get millions of folks to decide for AI...

Survey results: Bad news for the poor, overweight, old
205 Comments
25 Oct 06:56

Excuse me, but have you heard the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Chr-AI-st?

On the 6th day, God created humans. And on the 8th day, they created a bot to rewrite the Bible six ways from Sunday
56 Comments
25 Oct 05:30

UK.gov should spend more on AI, bleat VCs and consultants. Oh? Why's that then?

CommentThat's right, AI report was written by people with skin in the game
30 Comments
24 Oct 14:35

It only took Oz govt transformation bods 6 months and $700k to report that blockchain ain't worth the effort

Snarking at vendors: Priceless
54 Comments
24 Oct 13:48
language_translator

Linguists, update your resumes because Baidu thinks it has cracked fast AI translation

Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war
43 Comments
24 Oct 06:30
IV_drip

AI clinician trained to save humans from sepsis – and, er, let's just say you should stick to your human doctor

One out of three correct dosages ain't bad, right? Right?
46 Comments
23 Oct 05:49

Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000

That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties)
11 Comments
22 Oct 00:00

Opinion

machine arm attempts to crush questionmark

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

CommentThere is no ghost in the machine
AI boss and human slaves

UK.gov should spend more on AI, bleat VCs and consultants. Oh? Why's that then?

CommentThat's right, AI report was written by people with skin in the game
30 Comments
24 Oct 14:35
Faux pop art illustration: sweating man thinking "Oh no, no"

How an augmented reality tourist guide tried to break my balls

Something for the Weekend, Sir?... and displayed the results for everyone to see
84 Comments
14 Sep 08:04

Post-silly season blues leave me bereft of autonomous robot limbs

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Nothing to look forward to now… except perhaps the 1980s
58 Comments
07 Sep 09:13

News

A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom

RoundupAlso applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme
24 Comments
20 Oct 13:02

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

Was your anti-surveillance letter sinkholed? Write a blog about it
19 Comments
19 Oct 08:43

Finally, a use for AI and good old-fashioned simulations: Hunting down E.T. in outer space

Targeted ads, coming to a galaxy nowhere near you
19 Oct 02:30

Arm PSA IoT API? BRB... Toolbox of tech to secure net-connected kit opens up some more

Programming interfaces, threat models, and more pop up online
17 Oct 13:00

EU aren't kidding: Sky watchdog breathes life into mad air taxi ideas

EASA's writing rules for them after 'a number of requests'
49 Comments
16 Oct 04:57

Alexa heard what you did last summer – and she knows what that was, too: AI recognizes activities from sound

AnalysisGadgets taught to identify actions via always-on mics
100 Comments
15 Oct 21:10

GCHQ asks tech firms to pretty please make IoT devices secure

Hive, HP Inc sign up to refreshed code of practice
31 Comments
15 Oct 15:00

Enterprise IoT security sucks so much, it's made Intel and Arm work together to tackle it

Chip rivals lock lips to make customers happy
15 Oct 13:00

Amazon's sexist AI recruiter, Nvidia gets busy, Waymo cars rack up 10 million road miles

RoundupYour two-minute guide to this week in machine-learning world
30 Comments
13 Oct 16:01

AI's next battlefield is literally the battlefield: In 20 years, bots will fight our wars – Army boffin

'Humans are going to be a lot less visible ... will be just one species of intelligent beings'
112 Comments
12 Oct 21:16

Yale Weds: Just some system maintenance, nothing to worry about. Yale Thurs: Nobody's smart alarm app works

'Smart' home tech now only a half-accurate description
83 Comments
12 Oct 06:04

Those Stanford whiz kids have done it again. Now a chatty AI bot to negotiate sales for you with Craigslist riffraff

Deal or no deal – what's in the bot?
10 Comments
10 Oct 23:36
phone_angry

AI lifeline to help devs craft smartmobe apps that suck a whole lot less... battery capacity

Remember the days when you didn't have to charge your phone several times a day?
09 Oct 23:39
charge

Hey you know what the smart-home world really needs right now? Yup, Google screaming in

AnalysisNew Hub device continues to pull AI, Nest, YouTube closer together
27 Comments
09 Oct 21:06
corgi_puppy

Self-driving cars may not have steering wheels in future, dev preview for PyTorch 1.0 is here, etc

RoundupWhat Monday morning isn't complete without some, er, AI code to play with
31 Comments
08 Oct 06:31

Uncle Sam gives itself the right to shoot down any drone, anywhere, any time, any how

This one's not going to get abused, not at all
100 Comments
05 Oct 19:15

Microsoft open-sources Infer.NET AI code just in time for the weekend

Skip that Friday beer: the academic research tool is now open to one and all
05 Oct 17:53
fake_news

AI trained to sniff out fake news online may itself be fake news: Bot has mixed results in classifying legit titles

Be careful who you read
18 Comments
05 Oct 06:01
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AI, Reinforcement Learning, Neural Networks... DevOps? Learn more this month

EventMaking machine learning work at work

Databricks pushes machine learning on easy mode: Rock star data scientist, meet sweaty engineer

InterviewCo-founders chat to El Reg about liability, data silos and raw data pain
04 Oct 08:08
thumbs up

California cracks down on Internet of Crap passwords with new law to stop the botnets

It's good news, but overall a wasted opportunity
73 Comments
04 Oct 01:01
happy_guy_computer

Python lovers, here's a library that will help you master AI as a newbie

All it takes is a few lines of code
37 Comments
02 Oct 23:31
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