Clémence Smith discusses the dangers of allowing voice assistants into our homes.
AI
Bloomin’ Amazing Technology: Artificial Intelligence Could Help Predict Harmful Algal Blooms
M. Shelton discusses what algal blooms are, how they can affect a variety of different systems, how Artificial Intelligence could be used to predict where they will be and to prevent them in the future.
AI Algorithms and Coughing
Erica Mannis explains how artificial intelligence has been programmed to accurately detect COVID positive patients
Image-Net Roulette: Artistic experiment or internet fad?
Katie Fox looks at the rise and impact of the image-based machine learning software, and evaluates the ethics behind it.
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 […]
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 […]