Innovation

Implanting microchips into the human body is no longer a science fiction concept, but a reality. Walletmor, a British-Polish business, recently announced that it was the first to commercialise such technology. The implant, according to Wojtek Paprota, the company’s founder and CEO, may be used to pay bills everywhere contactless payments are accepted. Walletmor’s chip is made out of a tiny microchip and an antenna wrapped in a biopolymer — a naturally generated material similar to plastic — and weighs less than a gramme and is around the size of…

Fake faces made by artificial intelligence appear more trustworthy to humans than genuine people. Artificial intelligence and deep learning — an algorithmic learning process used to educate computers – are utilised to create a human who appears authentic, a technology known as a ‘deepfake.’ Participants were asked to classify faces created by the StyleGAN2 algorithm as authentic or artificial in an experiment. The participants’ success percentage was 48%, which was somewhat lower than flipping a coin. Participants were trained on how to spot deepfakes using the same data set in…

The central government is planning to develop a new data governance framework to allow for the flow of enormous volumes of data between government departments, a strategy that would improve governance efficiency, transparency, and accountability. The draught national data governance framework and policy will establish protocols and standards for how government entities process, store, and disseminate data within the larger government ecosystem. According to reports, Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said: “As we are increasing the digitisation of government, we need to create a…

A Dozens of Chinese companies have developed software that employs artificial intelligence to classify data collected on residents, in response to heavy demand from authorities looking to update their surveillance tools according to a Reuters investigation of official papers. According to Reuters’ review of more than 50 publicly available documents, dozens of Chinese businesses have purchased “one person, one file” software in the last four years. The technology improves on previous software that just collects data and then leaves it up to individuals to organise it. “The system has the…

The gold standard for an AI conversation system with sentiment detection is “multimodal sentiment analysis,” which is a collection of algorithms. These methods are critical for human-centered AI systems because they can automatically analyse a person’s psychological condition based on their speech, voice colour, facial expression, and posture. The method could lead to the creation of an emotionally intelligent AI with human-like characteristics that recognises the user’s feelings and responds appropriately. Current emotion estimation methods, on the other hand, only consider observable data and ignore information contained in non-observable signals…

Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the delicate task of peeling a banana without squashing the fruit inside. While the dual armed machine only succeeds 57% of the time, banana peeling foreshadows a future in which machines do more complex tasks than moving metal components or delivering coffee. In a video released by University of Tokyo researchers, the robot was seen picking up and peeling a banana with…