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UK’s Facial Recognition Software is Failing Miserably

June 19, 2018 by Alex Clarke

facial recognition software UK failed — Source: https://latesthackingnews.com/2018/05/16/facial-recognition-systems-used-by-police-are-widely-inaccurate/

The United Kingdom (UK) is well known for having some of the most heavily, electronically, monitored cities in the world. With so many security cameras it is next to impossible to not be on camera, if you are on one of the city streets. Facial recognition is a tool that the UK police believed that they could use in order to help sift through footage to find potential suspects. In theory, a machine would be able to search through footage in a fraction of the speed and could potentially identify people of interest more accurately. This is why this software was tested on such a large datastore. This test benefits both the software itself as well as the police, if it is able to work properly.

Hover Camera: The Camera of the Future

February 21, 2017 by Alex Clarke

A company called Zero Zero Robotics has recently unveiled their new device that will hover in place and take pictures of you. This camera uses a new form of technology to help guide it. They call it the Hover Camera.

api.ai: Create Your Own Personalized Chatbot

November 17, 2016November 8, 2016 by Alex Clarke

A silicon valley startup company by the name of Speaktoit created a software that allows the user to create their own chatbot. This software has recently been bought by Google. It has had many applications so far and is integrated into a lot of the software that we already use. This software is called api.ai.

UNU: Solving Problems With Human Swarm Intelligence

November 4, 2016November 1, 2016 by Alex Clarke

Source: http://unanimous.ai/make-your-voice-heard-with-unu/

A company by the name of Unanimous A.I. developed a technology that allows people to work together as a collective to make predictions, answer problems or have intellectual discussions. This software uses swarm intelligence to come up with its answers. This software is called UNU.

EQ-Radio: Read Emotions Using Wireless Signals

October 25, 2016October 11, 2016 by Alex Clarke

A group of researchers at MIT‘s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently developed a new technology that can infer human emotions using wireless signals. They call it the EQ-Radio.

Giraffe: The Amazing New Deep Learning Machine

February 1, 2016January 31, 2016 by Alex Clarke

Deep learning machine test output — Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-machine-teaches-itself-chess-in-72-hours-plays-at-international-master/

This is an amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Mathew Lai at Imperial College London has created an artificial intelligence machine that taught itself to play chess at grand master level in only 72 hours. The grand masters of chess are seen as the standard for the best human players for any game, in this case it is chess. Chess is a great game to test a deep learning machine against because it has all of the information (the pieces) visible to both players, and none of the game is up to chance. A good example of the opposite is poker because it has both hidden information and elements of chance. This is why humans are still, on average, better than computers at games similar to poker, whereas computers have been much better than the majority of humans for a long time.

OpenAI: Research for the Future

January 29, 2016January 28, 2016 by Alex Clarke

There has been a lot of talk recently about artificial intelligence (AI) with many of the great minds of our time warning for a cautious approach to the future of AI. Some of these people include Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. They have urged the general public and government to be wary of the future of AI. They also insist that we ensure that when a fully functioning AI is created that its goals are aligned with ours. They have also warned the governments to not pursue any AI integrated military ventures, but the US government has not listened. Thus the Elon Musk and others have decided to support ventures such as OpenAI that want to see the possible bright future of AI come to light.

Boolean Expressions, If Statements and Loops

January 21, 2016December 26, 2015 by Alex Clarke

Boolean Expressions

A boolean expression is evaluated by using certain operators to come to a true or false answer. The operators are:

== – Returns true if the values on either side are equal

!= – Returns true if the values on either side are not equal

< – Returns true if the value on the left is less than the value on the right

<= – Returns true if the value on the left is less than or equal to the value on the right

> – Returns true if the value on the left is greater than the value on the right

>= – Returns true if the value on the left is greater than or equal to the value on the right

&& – (And) Returns true if both values are true.

|| – (Or) Returns true if either value is true

Stephen Hawking and Artificial Intelligence

January 21, 2016August 4, 2015 by Alex Clarke

Picture and quote from Stephen Hawking. This in support of the topic of Artificial Intelligence — Source: http://www.philtv.ph/advanced-artificial-intelligence-can-possibly-end-human-race-stephen-hawking/

A couple of days ago reddit.com started an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Stephen Hawking to discuss his views on the future of Artificial Intelligence and for people to ask questions regarding the subject. Unlike other AMAs, this one will not be live. It will be in a comment fashion, where you post your question and then Professor Hawking can answer them at his own pace.