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The White House wants more AI research for less money
The White House released a budget proposal this week that at first glance, looks like a big win for the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The budget for fiscal year 2021 (which...
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DLF Shopping Malls deploys eateries and analytics to woo millennials
Amidst a slowing economy, shopping malls in India are struggling with tepid consumer interest. That, however, hasn’t deterred one of the country’s largest realtors from betting on the future. DLF...
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China’s facial-recognition giant says it can crack masked faces during the...
In unwelcome news for protesters everywhere, some Chinese artificial-intelligence companies are announcing their technology can now identify people even when they’re wearing face masks, as part of...
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Only a better understanding of AI can help end our fear of robots
There has been an ongoing polarising discussion among experts in both the academic and industrial circles when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), and the impact of its adoption on our continued...
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The EU’s agenda to regulate AI does little to rein in facial recognition
The term “facial recognition” only appears four times in the 27-page document that outlines Europe’s vision for the future of artificial intelligence. Three of those four instances are in footnotes....
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How TikTok became China’s first global app
Your neighbor’s teenage children are on it. So are Jimmy Fallon and the Washington Post, as well as Bollywood stars like Madhuri Dixit Nene. But…
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In India, Satya Nadella has empathy, coding, and cricket on his mind
Satya Nadella is in awe of the high-level of empathy that young Indians possess today. In fact, he believes, this empathy will go a long way in helping India churn out great innovations in the future....
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The quest to make AI less prejudiced
In 2016, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Bath made waves in the AI research community with a landmark study. They looked at a common tool used by AI researchers to represent...
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We can’t address bias in AI without considering power
Sometimes it takes something unexpected to shift people’s perspectives. That’s what a group of MIT and Harvard Law School researchers were aiming for when they set out to reframe fairness in AI by...
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The people, podcasts, and papers to check out on AI bias
AI bias is a rapidly changing field. Below you’ll find the people to follow to stay on top of it, along with the books, papers, podcasts, and other resources you need to get up to speed.PodcastsRead...
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The global coronavirus scare may be Indian ed-tech’s inflection point
When the first cases of Covid-19 emerged in India in February, among the patients were medical students from the southern state of Kerala who had returned from universities in China.With the disease...
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In “Devs,” creator Alex Garland sees Silicon Valley for what it really is
Having made films like Ex Machina and Annihilation and now the tech thriller TV series, Devs, Alex Garland does not have an especially optimistic vision of our future. But his concerns are much more...
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Coronavirus ruined what could’ve been a bumper year for Indian startup funding
The year 2020 was going to be a great year for Indian startups. Until it was not.Despite India seeing its first coronavirus case on Jan. 30, startups in the country raised an impressive $3 billion in...
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E-shopping to mobile recharges, Indian banks have a wealth of data to check...
In India, a young person who has just started a new job, or a middle-aged, blue-collar worker who has never taken a bank loan, often face rejections when they apply for credit due to the lack of a...
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Reliance Jio sells 2.3% stake for $1.5 billion to US-based Vista Equity Partners
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) today (May 8) said Texas-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners will invest Rs11,367 crore ($1.5 billion) into its next-generation technology...
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Virtual meetings are about to turn the art of management into a scalable science
We see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics, economist Robert Solow once said. Indeed, while the internet age has given us mobile phones, cloud computing, Skype, and social media,...
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The influential project that sparked the end of IBM’s facial recognition program
On June 8, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced the end of his firm’s involvement in facial recognition in a letter to US Senators. The company, he wrote, “firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any...
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An Indian IT veteran’s tips for corporate leaders to survive the pandemic
The Covid-19 outbreak has tested economies across the globe. As the situation continues to evolve, the global business community has pressed the reboot button to restart businesses in all industries...
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Amazon and Microsoft pause police facial recognition and demand regulation
Within 24 hours of each other, both Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged not to sell facial recognition tools to US police departments, acknowledging the concerns of researchers and activists who say...
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Why AI is the next way patients will choose their doctors
Covid-19 has changed the course of healthcare for the foreseeable future. Healthcare workers, doctors’ rooms, and equipment inventories were stretched thin even before the pandemic took hold, with...
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Even job openings for data scientists are in deep decline
Harvard Business Review had deemed it “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” But the demand for data scientists is rapidly cooling.In the past week, the number of US job postings for data scientists...
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When AI in healthcare goes wrong, who is responsible?
Artificial intelligence can be used to diagnose cancer, predict suicide, and assist in surgery. In all these cases, studies suggest AI outperforms human doctors in set tasks. But when something does go...
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For Mukesh Ambani, AI is indispensable to India’s “digital destiny”
After telecom and e-commerce, India’s richest man has now put his weight behind artificial intelligence (AI).Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India’s most valued private company Reliance Industries, believes...
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How effective is artificial intelligence in removing racial bias in hiring?
A growing number of tech companies are placing their bets on algorithms to reinvent talent acquisition and create a more inclusive workforce. In some cases, this might mean entirely removing...
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Google showed us the danger of letting corporations lead AI research
Artificial intelligence, more than most other fields of research, is dominated by corporations. Private research labs at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook churn out more top-flight research than most...
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AI and satellite data find thousands of fishing boats that could be using...
Fishing on the high seas is a bit of a mystery, economically speaking. These areas of open ocean beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any nation are generally considered high-effort, low-payoff...
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Why have AI models become so power hungry?
This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out the risks of...
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A 2011 dictionary is reshaping the language of corporate reporting
A new corporate principle is: Never say you’re restating anything. The machines will hold it against you.Over the past decade, “restatement” is the word companies have most strenuously tried to avoid...
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How Covid-19 lockdowns weakened Facebook’s content moderation algorithms
Facebook sent thousands of content moderators home due to coronavirus—and its algorithms suffered.During a company briefing today (Feb. 24), Facebook’s organic content policy manager Varun Reddy...
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The company using robots and fan input to pitch stories to Hollywood
Intellectual property is the lifeblood of entertainment, and Hollywood badly needs a transfusion.Stuck recycling the same ideas and producing the same franchises, Hollywood is now looking to podcasts,...
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We urgently need to change the narrative on AI in the workforce
There’s no denying the pandemic accelerated the fourth industrial revolution, a concept coined by professor Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum five years ago to describe the vast digital...
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Clubhouse’s next moves in India will determine if it’s the next Facebook or...
On Clubhouse, there is something for everyone: rooms on pop culture, feminism, cricket, music, gaming, and even religion and prayer. That variety is among the many reasons the invitation-only social...
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Jio Institute: What do we know so far about Mukesh Ambani’s “Institute of...
India’s richest man is on a mission to expand into newer industries and take them by storm. And his eyes are now set on the education sector.On June 24, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) said...
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How AI can help create more caring company cultures
As organizations begin strategizing how to bring employees back to the office, employers need to not only greet employees at the door with kindness and compassion, but build compassion into the heart...
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The Anthony Bourdain audio deepfake is forcing a debate about AI in journalism
By now, using machine learning to simulate a dead person on screen is an accepted Hollywood technique. Synthetic media, known widely as “deepfake” (a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake”)...
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Google is developing a new superintelligent AI but ethical questions remain
Artificial intelligence is already capable of doing some incredibly useful things, like predicting flooding, diagnosing disease, and instantly translating languages. Advances in neural networks coupled...
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US parents are packing their kids off to hundreds of AI summer camps
Some kids spend their summers swimming and building campfires. This year thousands will head to university and high school campuses to program robots, write software, and design video games. Artificial...
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China’s new data laws are a risk factor in a facial-recognition giant’s IPO...
SenseTime, one of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startups, backed by Japan’s SoftBank and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, filed for a listing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on...
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Amazon’s Astro robot has at least one obvious purpose
When Amazon released Astro, its household robot, earlier this week, the press laughed it off. I didn’t.“It’s an Echo Show on wheels,” they scoffed.“It’s an Echo Show—on wheels,” I thought.Read the rest...
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Why the Amazon Echo Show should be standard in every nursing home
Like many people, I could not visit my parents for most of 2020 and a large part of 2021. They had moved from one retirement home into another during the last week such places were open, the week...
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Why the Facebook whistleblower doesn’t want the company broken up
Facebook is the world’s dominant social media company: nearly 3 billion people use the Facebook suite each month, more than one-third of the global population, about 700 million more than YouTube, its...
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An Indian state is testing online voting based on blockchain technology
A small segment of the world’s largest democracy is set to test a whole new way of exercising its electoral franchise: through a smartphone app.On Oct. 20, nearly 113,000 voters of Khammam, a district...
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CAPTCHA: Made you look
Those internet security tests that ask you to retype blurry numbers or pick out photos of traffic lights have an important job: They stop robots from gumming up the internet. But by using them...
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What companies need for better network connectivity
While remote working became the new normal, there’s been a no-one-size-fits-all experience. Some enterprises adapted quickly; others struggled with IT and technical issues. And the echo that was...
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Why AI needs input from Africans
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and...
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Has TCS found a way out of Indian IT’s growing attrition problem?
India’s largest IT services company is doing a better job of holding on to talent than its rivals.Attrition at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was 15.3% in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2021, it...
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How the robots alongside us will make the world a better place
People often ask me about the real-life potential for inhumane, merciless systems like Hal 9000 or the Terminator to destroy our society.Growing up in Belgium and away from Hollywood, my initial...
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Where did IBM go wrong with Watson Health?
IBM spent more than a decade trying to make a go of Watson Health, its moonshot to apply artificial intelligence in healthcare. Watson was supposed to revolutionize everything from diagnosing patients...
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Elon Musk is developing fleets of domestic humanoid “buddy robots”
Imagine: A humanoid robot in every household, ready to fulfill our every want and whim. Chores like tidying up, making dinner, and mowing the lawn could be outsourced to AI robot butlers that have...
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Google is so nervous about what its newest bot will say, it made the app...
Google’s latest experimental language chatbot is getting a heavily guarded release.At its annual I/O conference, Google announced an Android app that will give users access to Google’s latest...
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