Tag: Artificial Intelligence

• Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

  

  Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

• Saturday, May 18th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Council of Europe adopts first international treaty on artificial intelligence

  

  The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring the respect of human rights, the rule of law and democracy legal standards in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 14:12 UTC

  Using a new AI tool to track the life cycle of icebergs in Antarctica

  

  Researchers are using a new AI tool to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean. This is the first step towards scientists being able to track the complete life cycle of most icebergs across Antarctica from satellite data. The study published in the journal Remote Sensing of the Environment points out a report from the British Antarctic Survey.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 21:06 UTC

  AI becomes Collins publisher Word of the Year 2023

  

  The contraction of artificial intelligence — AI — has been named as Collins' Word of the Year for 2023, the dictionary publisher announced this week.
  “Considered to be the next great technological revolution, AI has seen rapid development and has been much talked about in 2023,” a blog post from the publisher said.

• Friday, June 9th 2023 - 11:18 UTC

  Biden, Sunak sign “Atlantic Declaration” to address new technologies

  

  US President Joseph Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday renewed the economic alliance between the two countries by adapting it to the current world's transformations such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the climate crisis by signing the so-called Atlantic Declaration. Both leaders met at the White House to also discuss the war in Ukraine and the global economy.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  IMF fears labor market shock due to AI

  

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath Tuesday called for global rules to avoid the high social costs of massive job losses from the use of artificial intelligence, it was reported. “When it comes to AI, we need more than new rules,” she stressed.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Bill to regulate AI submitted at Brazil's Senate

  

  Brazilian Senate Speaker Rodrigo Pacheco Thursday submitted a bill to regulate the use of artificial intelligence based on the recommendations from a committee of jurists who studied the issue during 70 public hearings to detect the economic, social, and security impacts that the new development may have, especially in the labor market.

• Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 14:09 UTC

  Pause AI development: Open letter from world's tech leaders urges labs to stop

  

  Elon Musk and many other experts around the world have recently signed a petition requesting a six-month pause on research into artificial intelligence (AI) that is more powerful than ChatGPT 4, the OpenAI model that was launched this month.

• Monday, January 23rd 2023 - 15:58 UTC

  A news site set AI to write text and had to cancel the whole thing: it turns out bad

  

  The U.S. technology website CNET has stopped publishing articles written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), at least for the time being, as reported by The Verge.

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazil launches network on Artificial Intelligence applied to the auto industry and agribusiness sectors

  

  The Brazilian government has announced the launch of a national innovation network focused on artificial intelligence (AI) with the aim of increasing the production capacity and competitiveness of local companies.