Artificial Intelligence Archives - Page 4 of 4

Artificial Intelligence helped us write this episode

If your office is anything like ours, it's been obsessed with a new artificial intelligence chat bot that can do some pretty crazy things.

10 December
Expert: Kenneth Stanley - AI researcher on how innovation occurs

Kenneth Stanley is a former Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida and most recently led the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI.

24 November
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Scientists increasingly can't explain how AI works

The age of artificial intelligence is here. The use cases may only be novel (like AI art) or seemingly insignificant (like social media recommendations) but that is going to change. And according to the experts, change quickly. So these are the conversations that need to be had today.

18th Nov, 2022
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AI art is here and the world is already different

This article takes a look at the emerging AI art platforms - DALL-E, Imagen, Crayon and Midjourney. For those unfamiliar, you tell the platform what you want it to design and the AI will go to work

7th Oct, 2022
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Four investing megatrends

Megatrends are defined as macroeconomic changes we are seeing on a global scale that are transforming economies, businesses and societies. WAM Alternative Assets focuses on four key megatrends including: digitalisation, demographical shifts and ageing populations, climate change and the increasing demand for food.

28th Sep, 2022

Source: Wilson Asset Management
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How a Google Employee Fell for the Eliza Effect

One of the biggest stories in the tech world last week focused on Google placing an employee on leave after he came out and said Google’s AI had become sentient. The employee, Blake Lemoine, went public with these concerns and shared text conversations he had with one of Google’s AI language models, LaMDA (Language Models for Dialogue Applications).

29th Jun, 2022
How is AI changing the drug development process?

We hear a lot about artificial intelligence, but as non-scientists, we're the first to admit we don't really understand how it works. But coming out of COVID, one of the most remarkable things about the past two years was the speed at which we developed drugs and vaccines. Many in the field are saying that the pandemic was the ultimate test of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the technology passed with flying colours. Today Sascha and Alec look at how artificial intelligence is changing the drug development process and ask themselves - what could the future could look like?

21 April
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Are We On the Verge of Chatting with Whales?

The promise of artificial intelligence is vast and ambitious, but this recent project even caught us by surprise. A multidisciplinary team of scientists from around the world are attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks and talk back to them.

3rd Nov, 2021
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Google Search's Next Phase: Context is King

Google’s Senior VP in charge of Search likes to say that “search is not a solved problem”. There’s no doubt that Google moved the world a lot closer to solving that problem by indexing the world’s information and making it searchable.

6th Oct, 2021
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The Scientist and The A.I-assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine

For the past two decades, Israel’s intelligence services have been focused on preventing Iran developing a nuclear weapon. These efforts have introduced the world to a number of new technologies, for example the Stuxnet virus that infected Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, and seen a number of key Iranian scientists assassinated, latest estimates are six nuclear scientists and 17 members of the Iranian missile development team.

2nd Oct, 2021
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The 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2021

For the past 20 year Technology Review have been publishing a list of the year’s most important technologies. This week they published their list for 2021.

1st Mar, 2021
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Why humans beat computers at jumping into the unknown

Two trends are intersecting that are causing humans to doubt their intelligence. Firstly, the increasing application of mathematical techniques to a growing number of fields traditionally outside the reach of maths departments. Secondly, the increasing ability of artificial intelligence to solve mathematical challenges. Together, they are increasing concern that, at some point in the future, artificial intelligence will be able to make better decisions and understand the world better than human brains ever could.

31st Jan, 2021
Expert Investor: Viktor Shvets - Future of humanity and impact on investing

This episode is a big one. Full of big ideas and a lot of thoughts about the future. We were joined by Viktor Shvets, Managing Director & Head of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy at Macquarie Bank and author of 'The Great Rupture: Do we need to be free?

24 September