There’s a revolution coming in voice profiling and the warning signs are loud and clear

Marketers will soon be able to use AI-assisted vocal analysis to gain insights into shoppers’ inclinations.

Joseph Turow, The Conversation

· May 04, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Europe is set to ban artificial intelligence that is a threat to the safety and rights of people

But it leaves a loophole for mass surveillance.

Bernd Carsten Stahl, The Conversation

· Apr 25, 2021 · 11:30 pm

AI tech is increasingly being used by police worldwide. Here’s why India needs to regulate it

Technologies are known to increase bias, resulting in inaccurate judgements for minorities.

Gaurav Jain

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Raghav Chopra

· Apr 01, 2021 · 09:00 am

Artificial intelligence can now learn to influence human behaviour

Scientists from Australia devised a systematic method of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in the ways people make choices using an AI system.

Jon Whittle, The Conversation

· Feb 16, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Artificial intelligence stands at odds with the goals of cutting greenhouse emissions. Here’s why

Training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes.

Kate Saenko, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Artificial intelligence will need a body to develop a sense of self and reach its full potential

Researchers in the field of developmental robotics are exploring how robots can learn from scratch, like infants.

Mark Lee, The Conversation

· Oct 11, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Can this artificial intelligence program replace writers, journalists and poets?

The language generated by GPT-3 sounds as if it had been written by a human.

Prasenjit Mitra, The Conversation

· Sep 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

While we still don’t understand how algorithms work, firms are using them to manage staff

AI programme does what its code tells it to do. The problem is this code is rarely available.

Tom Barratt, The Conversation

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Alex Veen, The Conversation

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Caleb Goods, The Conversation

· Aug 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

The next frontier of human-robot relationships is building trust

The challenging step is to move from ‘I trust the robot to do X’ to ‘I trust the robot.’

Mark Edmonds, The Conversation

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Yixin Zhu, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2020 · 11:30 pm

There is still one domain which machines can’t take over: Human creativity

Without this unique ability, there would be no poetry, no internet and no space travel.

Tim Schweisfurth, The Conversation

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René Chester Goduscheit, The Conversation

· Feb 15, 2020 · 11:30 pm

No, artificial intelligence won’t start a robocalypse or solve humanity’s fundamental problems

But the hyperbole could set the technology back by decades.

Wim Naudé, The Conversation

· Jul 31, 2019 · 11:30 pm

How a group of researchers trained bees into solving simple maths problems

New research shows the honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths, including addition and subtraction.

Jair Garcia, The Conversation

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Adrian Dyer, The Conversation

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Scarlett Howard, The Conversation

· Feb 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm