Category: Artificial Intelligence
Onfido raises $30M more for its AI-based identity verification technology
Malicious hackers and security breaches that have exposed personal information of millions of people have pushed the issue of online security into the spotlight, not just for individuals but for organizations that do business with them. Now a company called Onfido, which has built a way to help websites verify people’s identities using a photo-based […]
IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership
IBM and MIT came together today to sign a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at the prestigious Cambridge, MA academic institution. The lab will be co-chaired by Dario Gil, IBM Research VP of AI and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Big Blue intends to […]
‘The US hasn’t been this divided since the 60s’: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor on how to save America
For his new book, America 51, the Slipknot frontman has been examining the sicknesses at the heart of US culture and from Donald Trump to modern dating; here’s his exclusive guide to navigating them. Don’t fear Donald Trump He is so ineffectual. Everyone was worried about the crazy things he’d do, but there’s nothing […]
When the robots take over, they’ll at least be able to give you a proper funeral
Image: Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images When the robot apocalypse comes, robots will be there to say a prayer over your frail human remains, thanks to Japan’s Softbank. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk and 115 other experts ask the UN to ban killer robots in open letter That’s the message from this week’s Tokyo Int’l […]
Amazon and Microsoft agree their voice assistants will talk (to each other)
Those betting big on AI making voice the dominant user interface of the future are not betting so big as to believe their respective artificially intelligent voice assistants will be the sole vocal oracle that Internet users want or need. And so Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are today announcing a tie-up, which will […]