Synthetic media is the wave of the future, combining artificial intelligence with content creation, but what is synthetic media and what is it used for? How does it compare to traditional media? And why should you care about it?
Read MoreGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs) show great promise when generating new data from existing datasets, impacting AI development.
Read MoreBrain-Computer Interfaces, invasive or non-invasive BCI, will change our relationship with computers and open up many privacy issues.
Read MoreUntil a few years ago, the only AI agent capable of strategy making was OpenAI’s multi-agent system. OpenAI Five [https://openai.com/projects/five/] was capable of playing the complex strategy game Dota2 at superhuman levels. While the OpenAI Five engineers coded [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6tikKda9LBzrkLfBJ/an-82-how-openai-five-distributed-their-training-computation]
Read MoreThe growth of the “gig economy” [https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2020/07/12/6-trends-that-will-shape-the-gig-economy-in-the-2020s/] in recent years has revolutionised the way that millions of people work. Proponents argue that the gig economy gives people more flexibility and opportunities and lowers barriers of entry to the labour market, while
Read MoreMicrosoft made waves this May when it announced that it would lay off more than 50 journalists and editors [https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275524/microsoft-news-msn-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-ai-replacements] from its workforce. Many of these employees were involved in the news curation process, selecting hand-picked content that would run on the
Read MoreWhat is GPT-3? In February 2019, the artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/30-ways-how-ai-will-change-your-business/] research lab OpenAI sent shockwaves through the world of computing by releasing the GPT-2 language model [https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/]. Short for “Generative Pretrained Transformer 2,” GPT-2 is able to generate several paragraphs of natural
Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) has already had a profound impact on business [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/30-ways-how-ai-will-change-your-business/] and society. Applied AI and machine learning (ML) are creating safer workplaces, more accurate health diagnoses and better access to information for global citizens. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will represent a new era of
Read MoreWe have a trust issue. In our digital world, it has become increasingly difficult to trust each other. Whether it is another person, an organisation or a device, trust is no longer a given online. This is a serious problem for our society and our democracy. If trust is lacking
Read MoreWe have reached the end of 2019 and just like in previous years, I am looking ahead to see what organisations can expect next year. 2019 was the year of truth [https://datafloq.com/read/top-7-technology-trends-for-2019/5817], with many enterprises developing blockchain proof of concepts, Google confirming a quantum supremacy
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