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Will artificial intelligence hamstring our ability to think for ourselves?
As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the development of AI is a suite of more tangible social ills. Among them are the risks AI…
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Will artificial intelligence hamstring our ability to think for ourselves?
As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the development of AI is a suite of more tangible social ills. Among them are the risks AI…
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Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
<!–> FOX Business correspondent Madison Alworth has the latest on the craftsmanship of the airplanes on “The Claman Countdown.” The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday publicly confirmed the first successful dogfight between a fighter jet piloted by artificial intelligence (AI) and a human-piloted aircraft. The AI-versus-human dogfight was carried out as part of the Air…
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Can artificial intelligence reduce vehicle time to market?
Time to market is a long-standing issue in the automotive industry. Between conception and eventual shipment, many complications can take place, including problems during validation and design revisions. The rise of connectivity features and electrification is extending design and manufacturing processes even further. In 2018, global manufacturing firm Jabil reported that only 29% of automakers…
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New BeagleY-AI Brings Open-Source Hardware to Machine Learning Applications
Everyone seems to have an AI solution for their embedded system hardware. However, in most cases, you’ll need to take that hardware as-is if you want to deploy it in your product, leaving no room to cost-optimize. However, things are different at BeagleBoard, with its open-source hardware approach that also applies to its new BeagleY-AI…
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Philips Museum opens new exhibition brAInpower on artificial intelligence
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Philips’ patient- and people-centric innovation leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver personal health solutions for consumers and professional health solutions for healthcare providers and their patients in the…
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We’ve Been Here Before: AI Promised Humanlike Machines
By Danielle Williams, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. The story cited the U.S. Navy as saying that the Perceptron would lead…
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The Threat of Unrestrained Artificial Intelligence
Amid other accumulating dysfunctions, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) poses a new extinction-level threat to the news industry, which should alarm every American. Whatever one’s particular preference in news sources, if GAI continues to scrape news organizations’ content without consent or compensation, it will rapidly drive those same news organizations on which it relies into extinction,…
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Artificial Intelligence Spurs Massive Demand for Chicago Data Center Power
Chicago’s Data Centers Face Unprecedented Power Demand Due to AI Expansion Exelon Corp CEO Calvin Butler highlighted a remarkable surge in the electrical power needs of data centers in the Chicago area, driven by the evolution of artificial intelligence. Butler reported that approximately 25 data center projects in the vicinity under the purview of Commonwealth…
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Google is combining its Android software and Pixel hardware divisions to more broadly integrate AI
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit wearables, the company said Thursday. It’s part of a broader plan to integrate artificial intelligence more widely throughout the company. In a letter to employees, Google…
