Tag: Artificial Intelligence
AfriCan: Google to open new AI research centre in Ghana
Google has announced plans to open an artificial intelligence research centre in Ghana's capital, Accra. It will be the first of the search giant's AI...
Bringing home the bacon: Alibaba brings AI platform to pig farming
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has officially launched an agricultural AI platform, ET Agricultural Brain, to allow farmers to better monitor, understand, and react to the...
80 percent of organisations set to invest in AI, claims report
Fifty-five percent of enterprises are set to make major investments in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2020, according to a new report.
A further 25 percent...
Google caves in to pressure, won’t renew Pentagon AI deal
Google has succumbed to pressure from its employees and announced that it will be exiting from the Project Maven contract with the US Department...
Toronto pilots new smart city technologies with Intel, Microsoft
City partners with Microsoft, Intel, and others, to increase city efficiency.
The City of Toronto in Canada has chosen a number of technologies to pilot...
London hospital replacing doctors with AI to improve patient care
One of London's top NHS hospitals, University College London Hospital (UCLH), has partnered with the UK's national organisation for data science, the Alan Turing...
NVIDIA deep learning research helps robots learn in real time
Researchers from computer hardware giant NVIDIA have created a deep learning system that can teach robots to carry out a task just by watching...
Banks’ use of AI, blockchain, cloud is systemic risk, warns industry
Banks’ rising use of AI, cloud technologies, and blockchain challenge traditional notions of risk and risk management, according to a new research paper from...
Chinese city launches $16 billion artificial intelligence fund
Tianjin, a major port city in northeastern China, has unveiled plans to launch a 100 billion yuan ($16 billion) fund to bolster the local artificial...
Gatwick Airport ploughs $15 million into IoT network
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has finished installing a new £11 million ($15 million) IT network at the UK’s second largest airport.
Gatwick Airport said...
New MIT system enables autonomous driving on poorly mapped roads
A new system from MIT, known as MapLite, enables self-driving cars to navigate using just GPS and sensors.
Self-driving systems are typically seen being tested...
White House ‘AI for American Industry’ summit hosts Amazon, Facebook, Google
Representatives from 38 major US companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Ford, will gather at the White House today for an AI...