US-based industrial manufacturers are slightly ahead of their Chinese counterparts in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into their operations, even though both countries have a near-equal number of installed bases of AI-enabled devices, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research.
Both countries are incentivized to develop approaches that encourage AI adoption in industrial manufacturing, but “the US has managed to achieve more momentum,” according to Lian Jye Su, principal analyst. This is due to “acute challenges in manpower and rising cost of materials. So they need to adopt AI to make sure they can overcome these challenges.” Read More
Daily Archives: October 31, 2019
This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians
Anyvision Interactive Technologies is one of Israel’s most curious startups. It has shown extraordinary growth, and its technology is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Eylon Etshtein, told TheMarker that his company is sensitive to racial and gender bias and only sells to democracies.
Anyvision is Israel’s most high-profile biometric recognition firm, particularly in facial recognition. The company notes that its software can be hooked up to cameras of all kinds and be installed and used immediately, requiring little computing capacity. Read More
Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both combat and non-combat AI systems. The principles are broken into five main principles: responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable.
The principles state that humans should remain responsible for “developments, deployments, use and outcomes,” and AI systems used by the military should be free of bias that can lead to unintended human harm. Read More
10 Essential TED Talks on Artificial Intelligence
In the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion around Artificial Intelligence and it’s implications for everything from industrial applications to smart phone apps—and if you have a smart phone, chances are you’ve come across TED Talks.
If you haven’t listened to a TED Talk, you should. Presented by people who are deeply connected to the field they are speaking about, it gives you the opportunity to listen to people with an insider’s expertise that most of us would never hear from, but who can provide valuable perspectives. Read More
AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say
In the latest example of deepfake technology, researchers have shown off new software that uses machine learning to let users edit the text transcript of a video to add, delete, or change the words coming right out of somebody’s mouth.
The work was done by scientists from Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe Research, and shows that our ability to edit what people say in videos and create realistic fakes is becoming easier every day. Read More
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