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7 Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Global Health
⇓ More from ICTworks 7 Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in Global Health By Guest Writer on October 25, 2023 We’ve all read the warning stories about AI: sentient robots, deep fakes, disappearing jobs. If the risk-benefit calculation for use and regulation of AI focuses on existential risk of human annihilation vs. the trivial benefit…
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AI-created child sexual abuse images ‘threaten to overwhelm internet’
The “worst nightmares” about artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse images are coming true and threaten to overwhelm the internet, a safety watchdog has warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said it had found nearly 3,000 AI-made abuse images that broke UK law. The UK-based organisation said existing images of real-life abuse victims were being built…
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AI-focused ETFs spread risk as fears grow of bubble
Artificial intelligence represents one of the biggest technological advances ever, with a wide array of applications — from drawing pictures to driving cars. And asset managers have been quick to develop exchange traded funds that can capitalise on this potential. But investors considering an allocation to these funds face a bewildering range of choices, including…
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US orders immediate halt to shipping of some AI chips to China, Nvidia says
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Peter Hoskins Business reporter Tech giant Nvidia says the US has told it to stop shipping some of its advanced artificial intelligence chips to China immediately. The restrictions were supposed to be introduced 30 days from 17 October. That was when President Joe Biden’s administration announced measures to block countries, including China, Iran…
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Researchers develop artificial intelligence tool for automatic colorectal cancer tissue analysis
Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä in collaboration with the Institute of Biomedicine University of Turku and Nova Central Finland have developed an artificial intelligence tool for automatic colorectal cancer tissue analysis. The refined neural network outperformed all previous solutions in the task. The neural network offers a faster, more precise method for classifying colorectal…
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Shasha Seminar on Human Concerns: Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Consciousness
Tula Telfair’s paintings explore wilderness in the form of recalled and imagined landscapes in order to acknowledge its inherent power and remarkable fragility. “My work investigates consciousness, memory, and the subjectivity of perception to anchor our place in the world,” Telfair said. As someone who creates photo-realistic, but materially varied and analogue process oil paintings…
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Anish Kapoor on Vantablack ownership and artificial intelligence
We sat down with British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor for the opening of his new major exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. ADVERTISEMENT Anish Kapoor, the Turner Prize-winning artist and the creative genius behind some of the world’s most iconic sculptures, including Chicago’s Cloud Gate sculpture and London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit, has left his creative footprint across…
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Artificial intelligence, services globalisation and income inequality
Artificial intelligence, services globalisation and income inequality This website requires javascript for proper use BIS Working Papers | No 1135 | 25 October 2023 Summary Focus Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded into modern economies. This prompts fundamental questions about its implications for income distribution. This study seeks to explore how AI-related investment is associated…
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AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
A version of the human ability to apply new vocabulary in flexible ways has been achieved by a neural network.Credit: marrio31/Getty Scientists have created a neural network with the human-like ability to make generalizations about language1. The artificial intelligence (AI) system performs about as well as humans at folding newly learned words into an existing…
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Wall Street wants to know how Google’s going to profit from AI
In Google’s third quarter earnings conference, investors asked executives more questions about how it’s going to turn AI into actual profit. Executives responded said they’ve seen early success with ads and hope to replicate across other products but at times, remained vague. The company has yet to release its much anticipated Search Generative Experience to…