artificial intelligence, predictive policing, profiling

How Predictive Policing Technologies Can Work Against Justice

With Artificial Intelligence technologies becoming pervasive in all aspects of society, it was inevitable that they would be used by law enforcement. In the U.S., predictive policing technologies are becoming a favorite tool of police forces because of their ability to predict a potential crime. But such technologies bring with them a host of problems, ...

Jack Roberts

How Ancient Indian Texts Are Helping Scientists Teach Ethics to AI

In a move that validates the wisdom and ingenuity of ancient civilizations, a group of researchers from the Institute of Logic and Computation at TU Wien, Austria, is using Indian religious texts, written in Sanskrit, to teach ethics to AI. The texts, called the Vedas, are believed to have been written down about 4,000 years ago. ...

Nspirement Staff

3 Ominous AI Trends We Should Be Worried About

Artificial Intelligence is proclaimed as being the cornerstone for establishing a new world order for human beings. Unfortunately, this new world can either be a paradise or turn into our worst nightmare. Looking at emerging AI trends, there are three specific developments that should be a cause of worry for any sensible human. Unregulated government ...

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Cheap Labor Spearheading China’s Plan for AI Dominance

When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. is definitely ahead of China as far as technology is concerned. However, China comfortably beats America in terms of data size and cheap labor, opening up the possibility that the communist nation may one day become an AI superpower. Cheap labor and AI In the U.S., AI ...

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Why Blockchain Is the Future of Artificial Intelligence

For most of its history, artificial intelligence (AI) development was restricted to big tech companies like IBM and Google. As a consequence, artificial intelligence was restricted to the computational power of a few servers. But blockchain technologies promise to eliminate such restrictions by providing a decentralized network of computers. Blockchain and AI “AI’s compiling, rendering, ...

Armin Auctor

Blockchain.

The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and the Human Brain

While scientists across the world are conducting research on developing a truly human-like artificial intelligence (AI), they still don’t have a clear understanding of how intelligence actually works. This mystery has been dragging down AI research for years. However, the machine intelligence company Numenta has come up with The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, which offers ...

Armin Auctor

Brain neurons.

AI Art Auctioned Off for Almost Half a Million Dollars

An artwork created by Artificial Intelligence (AI art) was auctioned off at Christie’s recently for a staggering price of US$432,500. While some have hailed it as the dawn of a market for AI-driven art, others warn that giving any value to a painting created by computer programs devalues the sanctity of art itself. A record ...

Armin Auctor

New AI That Detects Breast Cancer Better Than Doctors

Futurists have been predicting for years that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will one day play a dominant role in healthcare. Google just gave us a glimpse of that future by revealing a new AI that detects breast cancer more accurately and swiftly than doctors. Meet LYNA, a new AI that detects breast cancer Pathologists usually detect ...

Nspirement Staff

AI detecting breast cancer.

SingularityNET: The Next Step in AI Evolution

The AI industry is largely a monopoly of a few tech giants. SingularityNET seeks to disrupt it by providing a decentralized marketplace that would allow AI developers from across the world to connect to users. What makes SingularityNET even more interesting is the fact that it allows for the possibility of AIs to learn from ...

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Advancement in IoT Forges Disruption of Traditional Business Models

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the most rapidly growing term in the market. Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are the big-scale industries that are adhering to IoT technology and giving their best to attract the consumer. Personal Assistant is one of the most common examples of IoT and AI (Artificial Intelligence). The growth of ...

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