New research suggests robots could turn racist and sexist with flawed AI

New research suggests robots could turn racist and sexist with flawed AI

A robot that operates using a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system continuously and consistently gravitated to men over women, white people over people of colour, and jumped to conclusions about peoples’ jobs after a glance at their faces, during a study led by Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Washington researchers. […]

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Degree admissions pick up; commerce continues to rule due to employment factor

Degree admissions pick up; commerce continues to rule due to employment factor

Along with regular B.Com courses, students are now asking for an integrated curriculum that also trains them to take up CA examinations Along with regular B.Com courses, students are now asking for an integrated curriculum that also trains them to take up CA examinations With employment opportunities galore for commerce and management graduates, this year […]

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AI’s hold over humans is getting stronger

AI’s hold over humans is getting stronger

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness. To be clear, current artificial intelligence systems are decades […]

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Biggest Artificial Intelligence controversies: Racism, sexism and ‘becoming sentient’

Biggest Artificial Intelligence controversies: Racism, sexism and ‘becoming sentient’

Google’s LaMDA artificial intelligence (AI) model has been in the news because of an engineer in the company who believes that the program has become sentient. But while that claim was rubbished by the company pretty quickly, this is not the first time that an artificial intelligence program has attracted controversy; far from it in […]

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Nvidia says video gaming market slowing; shares drop 7%

Nvidia says video gaming market slowing; shares drop 7%

CEO Jensen Huang said that Nvidia’s gaming business revenue will post a percentage drop in the mid-teens for the current quarter compared with the previous quarter. CEO Jensen Huang said that Nvidia’s gaming business revenue will post a percentage drop in the mid-teens for the current quarter compared with the previous quarter. Chip designer Nvidia […]

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Apeejay Education, Amazon Web Services launch initiative to help academic institutions on technology

Apeejay Education, Amazon Web Services launch initiative to help academic institutions on technology

Apeejay Education and Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced the launch of an initiative — NEPAP — to help the academic institutions to use technology extensively in teaching and create public digital infrastructure in the education sector aligned to the NEP 2020 vision. The National Education Policy Accelerator Program (NEPAP) will guide academic institutions on […]

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