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Montevideo, April 24th 2024 - 08:41 UTC

Tag: Artificial Intelligence

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

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

    Icebergs in the Southern Ocean have calved off the Antarctica Ice Sheet. They can take decades to melt into the ocean.

    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

    “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 Collins said

    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

    It is a new economic alliance for a new era, Sunak explained at a joint press conference

    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

    Gopinath found it “encouraging” that the G7 has formed a working group to study 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

    Pacheco's draft is based on recommendations from a panel of jurists

    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

    Although AI has the potential to revolutionize the world as we know it, experts are concerned about the “significant risks to humanity” that could result from uncontrolled AI.

    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

    As with automation in other parts of the workforce, some people don't trust companies to use AI ethically.

    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.

  • Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

    Google’s advisory council on AI only lasted a fortnight

    The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) was due to look at the ethics around AI, machine learning and facial recognition

    An independent group set up to oversee Google's artificial intelligence efforts has been shut down less than a fortnight after it was launched. The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) was due to look at the ethics around AI, machine learning and facial recognition. One member resigned and there were calls for another to be removed.

  • Tuesday, February 19th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

    IBM to launch research center on Artificial Intelligence in Sao Paulo

    “IBM Brazil's research laboratory has been at the forefront of advances in AI research and collaborates with the technology ecosystem in the country”

    IBM is set to launch a research center in the Brazilian city of São Paulo focused on development of solutions around artificial intelligence. The AI center will be the first Latin American institution of IBM's AI Horizons Network. It will be jointly run by the company and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to pursue “a disruptive research program”, with the potential to “promote paradigm shifts in AI.”