Top news of the week: 26.05.2021.
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Big Brains: New Books on Artificial Intelligence
Reading ‘Genius Makers,’ ‘A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence,’ ‘Atlas of AI’ and ‘Futureproof.’
The Route to Trusted AI
“So if one bank is found to be using AI unethically, the thought is that the entire industry would suffer.” Playbook for trusted data It is no surprise, then, that financial …
AI Shows ExxonMobil Downplayed Its Role in Climate Change
According to a new paper, the company’s own research showed that human activity was a contributor, but public statements suggested otherwise.
Google launches fully managed cloud ML platform Vertex AI
Google Cloud has launched Vertex AI, a fully managed cloud platform that simplifies the deployment and maintenance of machine learning models.
Truth, Lies, and Automation
Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to generate automated disinformation at scale. ...
Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly
The Turkish made Kargu-2 drone can operate in autonomous mode and may have been used to attack retreating soldiers fighting against the UN-recognized government in Libya. There's an ongoing ...
Employee Monitoring as a Form of Imprisonment – Jeevan Hariharan and Hadassa Noorda
Image by Aska2011 from Pixabay A cursory Google search of employee monitoring tools reveals the breadth of technologies now available for companies to track worker activity. The top results ...
Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them
The network turned out to be as good at the job as human archaeologists.