Nvidia watches Brit upstart Graphcore swing into rear-view mirror waving beastly second-gen AI chip hardware

by Auth - 16/07/2020 04

Colossus Mk2 boasts of even more transistors than the top GPU Video British AI chipmaker Graphcore has announced a new series of hardware products based on its latest second-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) known as the Colossus Mk2 GC200.… Read more...

Don’t want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It’s now easier to opt out of the slurp

by Auth - 15/07/202016/07/2020 016

And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah? Did you know if you upload pictures, text, audio, code, and other content to some Amazon Web Services' AI systems for processing, the internet giant may quietly keep your data to retrain and improve its

You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot

by Auth - 13/07/202014/07/2020 036

The only winning move is... not to play? Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its customer-service phone calls and chatbot conversations.… Read more...

Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software

by Auth - 13/07/202013/07/2020 016

Plus: IB students kick up a stink over algorithm grading, and more In brief A man was charged after he was mistakenly identified as a thief by facial-recognition software used by the Detroit Police Department.… Read more...

Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest

by Auth - 13/07/202013/07/2020 026

Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service Microsoft has kicked a five-year-old out onto the cold, hard Chinese streets by spinning off its Xiaobing (or Xiaoice) business.… Read more...

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

by Auth - 09/07/202013/07/2020 037

Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot Following Canada's lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia today launched a joint investigation into how Clearview AI harvests and uses billions of images it scraped from the internet to train its facial-recognition algorithms.… Read more...

FYI: You do all know that America’s tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

by Auth - 09/07/202010/07/2020 044

They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley Despite all those protests, internal and external, by tech workers against their employers' selling AI to the US military, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JIAC) this week said the biggest names

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

by Auth - 05/07/202006/07/2020 034

Plus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research In brief Cops in Detroit have admitted using facial-recognition technology that fails to accurately identify potential suspects a whopping 96 per cent of the time.… Click to read more...

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

by Auth - 01/07/202003/07/2020 035

Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms.… Click to read more...

CodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud

by Auth - 01/07/202003/07/2020 033

CodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud Amazon has made its machine-learning-tools that automatically review and profile code, so you can find out where bottlenecks are and how it's going to cost you in the AWS cloud, generally available. Click to read more...