Katie Fox looks at the rise and impact of the image-based machine learning software, and evaluates the ethics behind it.
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AI Don’t Think So…
Whether it’s adverts for the Amazon Alexa, Sophia the robot tweeting or ‘Black Mirror’ throwing its viewers into a hellscape where personal security robots routinely hunt and kill humans, our society has Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the brain. With its applications seemingly endless, an AI takeover does seem inevitable. However, it has some drawbacks that […]
CIRCLES: The Way of the Future and why we’re never scared
In Dartmouth, New Hampshire, 1956, computer scientist John McCarthy coins the term “Artificial Intelligence”, in a conference room, proposing a study into the potential for computers to achieve levels of thought equivalent to humans. The study revolves around the conjecture that if “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle […]
Microsoft’s bot took a look at Exeter, here’s what it saw
Microsoft recently announced a new caption image bot. This may sound familiar, as they were the ones who released the hilarious how-old.net website. This bot is no different from being hilariously wrong sometimes. What this bot does is analyse an image and tries to describe, in a natural way, what’s in the picture. The bot […]