Tag: AI

C3.ai Sets a Model for Talent Transformation with University of Illinois Degree Program

I’m delighted to share that C3.ai, the leading enterprise AI software provider, will be expanding its enterprise partnership with Coursera, offering not only courses in critical skills but also online degrees. As of today, C3.ai is offering employees full paid tuition for the Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS) from the University of […]
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Is Facebook Already Working On An Encryption Backdoor?

Horst Seehofer, Germany’s federal interior minister, wants to require encryption companies to provide the government with plain text transcripts. One security expert says Facebook is already working on a way to make it happen. An anonymous reader quotes his remarks in Forbes: The reality is that at its annual conference earlier this month, Facebook previewed all of the necessary infrastructure to…

Google Assistant’s AI Is Actually Humans In ‘A White-Collar Sweatshop’, Complain Workers

This week the Guardian ran an expose on Google Assistant (Google’s version of Alexa or Siri) “Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible.” “It’s smoke and mirrors if anything,” said a current Google employee who, as with the others quoted in this story, spoke on condition of…

DeepMind’s AI Beats Humans At Quake III Arena

“A team of programmers at a British artificial intelligence company has designed automated ‘agents’ that taught themselves how to play the seminal first-person shooter Quake III Arena, and became so good they consistently beat human beings,” reports AFP: The work of the researchers from DeepMind, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, was described in a paper published in Science…

‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming For Your Job’ — Management Is

merbs writes: If the robots are simply “coming,” if they just show up and relieve a helpless lot of humans of their livelihoods, then no one is to blame for this techno-elemental phenomenon, and little is to be done about it beyond bracing for impact. Not the executives swayed by consulting firms who insist the future is in AI customer service…

DIY Facial Recognition For Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vice News: Someone posting on Chinese social network Weibo claims to have used facial recognition to cross-reference women’s photos on social media with faces pulled from videos on adult platforms like Pornhub. In a Monday post on Weibo, the user, who says he’s based in Germany, claimed to have “successfully identified more than 100,000…

What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery

Perfume prospectors travelling the world, AI researchers and neuroscientists are discovering the secrets of our least understood sense Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232320-200-what-makes-a-good-smell-inside-a-multibillion-dollar-aromatic-mystery/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Forget rampant killer robots: AI’s real danger is far more insidious

AI isn’t going to crush us underfoot, but it does harbour a threat that makes Terminator look innocent: entrenching human biases and turning them against us Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232321-400-forget-rampant-killer-robots-ais-real-danger-is-far-more-insidious/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Coursera Extends East Coast Reach with New York City Office

Today we’re excited to announce the opening of our New York City office to support the expansion of Coursera’s fastest growing business line, Coursera for Business. The new Manhattan location will serve our rapidly expanding customer base in North America and on the East Coast, with particular emphasis on the financial and professional services verticals. […]
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