Fellow futurist podcaster Peter Hayward joins me to discuss the challenge of fostering foresight in a short-sighted world.
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Microsoft has released a public preview of a free app lets helps people train machine learning models without writing any code.
The Lobe desktop app for Windows and Mac currently only supports image classification, but Microsoft plans to expand it to other models and data types in the future.
“Just show it examples of what you want it to learn, and it automatically trains a custom machine learning model that can be shipped in your app,” the Lobe website explains.
With video editing software becoming increasingly sophisticated, it’s sometimes difficult to believe our own eyes. Did that actor really appear in that movie? Did that politician really say that offensive thing?
Some so-called ‘deepfakes’ are harmless fun, but others are made with a more sinister purpose. But how do we know when a video has been manipulated?
Researchers from Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science have teamed up with Intel Corp. to develop a tool called FakeCatcher, which boasts an accuracy rate above 90%.
S.B. 50 — Animal Shelter AmendmenEuthanasia by Injection, sponsored by Sen. Knudson For the fourth year in a row, we will be supporting a bill to ban the use of gas chambers for animal euthanasia. Utah is one of four states where a handful of animal shelters are still using the outdated and inhumane method of gas chamber euthanasia.
Azerbaijan’s Turkish and Israeli drones are wiping out tanks, artillery, and soldiers as the Armenians lose ground in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Today, we already have humans and robots working together. Kuka has deployed a new type of heavy industrial robots that can work and collaborate with humans, side-by-side.
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You got a little too caught up in Instagram and lost track of time. You dash over to your home office to quickly log into to work hoping no one will notice your tardiness. Alas, as soon as you connect, you get an immediate message from your boss: “You’re 17 seconds late to work! Your performance score will be impacted.” Ugh! It’s tough working for an AI boss.
This situation seems far-fetched but a little too real at the same time. Will people have AI managers in the future? More importantly, will people still even be working in the future? The answer to both questions is yes. The reality, though, is AI managers will happen much sooner than people think.
Today, we already have humans and robots working together. Kuka has deployed a new type of heavy industrial robots that can work and collaborate with humans, side-by-side. In the past, such a thing was not considered possible. These big, heavy industrial robots could potentially kill a person if they accidentally hit someone. Thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence, Kuka has created robots that automatically recognize where human person is, even as that person moves around a manufacturing floor. With human and machine working jointly on a production line, manufacturing plants have achieved solid benefits in better overall productivity, reduced hazardous work performed by humans, improved production quality, and increased plant floor flexibility.
A rare, two-headed racer snake turned up in Florida, after being caught by a curious house cat.