In the News with Mike Dakkak
Cyrus Nooriala joins ITN to discuss the undue influence big tech firms try to exert over companies trying to leverage cloud computing to grow their business.
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Continue ReadingSouth Korean students are to begin taking classes that teach them to work with artificial intelligence.
Two courses will be available as electives and will be administered to high school students, the equivalent of high school juniors and seniors …
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Delaware have developed a new “cyborg-like technology” that will allow electronic devices to merge with human tissue without causing scarring that impedes health monitoring.
Professor David Martin, the group’s head researcher, said the idea came …
Continue ReadingThe Ford Motor Company is set to phase out traditional human surveyors for their plants, opting instead to user robot dogs to laser map production plants.
Ford partnered with Boston Dynamics to use one such “dog,” nicknamed Fluffy, to digitally …
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Google assistant can now make real phone calls, and the difference between it and real-life human conversation is virtually indistinguishable.
The technology was demonstrated last week at Google I/O the tech giant’s annual developer conference.
Different from voice-recognition software that …
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Two-thirds of media buyers plan to shift some portion of their budget from TV ad buys to digital video this year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry group that tracks digital advertising. More than 50% of buyers plan …
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A new report by an Oxford University Academic, Jeffrey Ding, finds that despite massive investment by the government of China in Artificial Intelligence, the country’s capabilities are only about half as good as that of the U.S.
The study found …
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Facebook is looking to build its own chips and hardware according to employment ads the company has placed, as well as people familiar with the matter. It’s believed the company is looking to decrease its dependence on other chip makers …
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The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) made headlines last month for announcing a partnership with defense company Hanwha Systems to develop artificial intelligence. There is now growing concern that the partnership will lead to the creation of …
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French President Emmanuel Macron gave a major speech this week in which he laid out the country’s new strategy for championing Artificial Intelligence. The French government will spend close to $2 billion over the next five years to encourage startups, …
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