Innovation

Ukraine is using facial recognition software from Clearview AI to track down Russian assailants and identify Ukrainians who have perished in the conflict. Hoan Ton-That, the company’s CEO, told Reuters that Ukraine’s defence ministry started using the software on Saturday. Clearview The facial recognition system developed by AI is divisive, but undeniably powerful, as it uses billions of images scraped from the internet to identify just about anyone. Clearview, according to Ton-That, has over two billion iumages from Russian social media service VKontakte alone. According to Reuters, Ton-That wrote to…

In a bid to accelerate AI adoption in India, The All-India Council for robotics and automation will host the third edition of the Global Artificial intelligence summit and awards(GAISA) from the 14th and 15th of September 2022 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The summit is a Global AI event that comprises insightful and innovative presentations, panels and round-table discussions, keynote sessions by experts, and an exhibition of new products and services related to artificial intelligence. The event also sets the platform for honouring exemplary work of the institutions, organizations, and…

Darktrace has added 70 new machine learning models and over 80 new features to its flagship AI cybersecurity platform. The Cambridge-based company, which utilises self-learning AI to safeguard businesses across various industries, was created in 2013 by mathematicians and cyber defence professionals. As part of Darktrace’s Antigena autonomous response technology, machine learning is utilised to make thousands of “micro-level” decisions in the background. Antigena has been enhanced with 70 new machine learning models to boost its ability to neutralise threats automatically in real time. “The hallmark of a great AI…

Artificial intelligence underpins many areas of daily life, from chatbots that answer tax questions to algorithms that operate autonomous vehicles and provide medical diagnostics. According to experts at the University of California, Irvine, creating smarter, more accurate systems necessitates a mixed human-machine approach. They describe a new mathematical model that can increase performance by integrating human and computational predictions and confidence scores in a paper published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Humans and machine algorithms have complementary strengths and weaknesses. Each uses different sources of…