A panel of experts calls for all university and technical college students in Japan to be given beginner-level education on artificial intelligence.
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New Artificial Intelligence Can Predict People’s Premature Deaths
Evolution in the field of artificial intelligence seems to occur almost daily, with the latest update coming from a new study conducted by a team at University of Nottingham. The scientists tested three different types of artificial intelligence to…
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Black Girls Code workshops, Pluto’s planetary debate, FFA’s Champion Awards, and more
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— Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching girls of color ages 7-17 about computer programming and technology, is holding three pop-up robotics workshops in the Seattle area on Saturday, March 30 in advance of…
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How GM’s Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Effort Is Improving Kubernetes
Having the right access control in place for authorized systems and individuals is a critical part of any modern computing platform. When Cruise Automation didn’t quite get the all the capabilities it needed from within the open-source Kubernetes project, it…
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Bits: The Week in Tech: Who Should Let Driverless Cars Off the Leash?
Uber and Lyft want robocars to navigate city streets alone so they can offer rides 24-7 without human drivers to share the takings.
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Built Robotics’ massive construction excavator drives itself
I’ve never had a meeting quite like the one I had with Built Robotics.
Within about 10 minutes of meeting Built’s co-founder Noah Ready-Campbell, we’re steering an 80,000-pound construction excavator around what is basically his company’s back…
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Daimler Trucks buys a majority stake in self-driving tech company Torc Robotics
Daimler Trucks just announced that it’s acquiring a majority stake in Torc Robotics, a deal that will see the two companies collaborating on the development of Level 4 self-driving trucks.
Daimler Trucks is the world’s largest truck manufacturer and a division of…
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‘Bias deep inside the code’: the problem with AI ‘ethics’ in Silicon Valley
As algorithms play a growing role in criminal justice, education and more, tech advisory boards and academic programs mirror real-world inequality
When Stanford announced a new artificial intelligence institute, the university said the “designers of AI must be broadly representative of…
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