The Artificial Intelligence Podcast

The majority of Axon’s AI ethics board have resigned after the company announced that it’s developing taser-equipped drones.

The US Internal Revenue Service has unveiled expanded voice bot options  to help eligible taxpayers easily verify their identity to set up or  modify a payment plan while avoiding long wait times.

Open AI has trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video  PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human  Minecraft play, while using just a small amount of labeled contractor  data.

Zoom has caused a stir following reports that it’s developing an AI system for detecting emotions.

Google has added “creating deepfakes” to its list of projects that are banned from its Colab service.

Researchers have applied the tools of neuroscience to study when and how an artificial neural network can overcome bias in a dataset. They found that data diversity, not dataset size, is key and that the emergence of certain types of neurons during training plays a major role in how well a neural network is able to overcome dataset bias.

92% of product decision-makers say that data and analytics are critical to the success of their businesses. More than 4 in 5 (86%) say that offering data and analytics to their customers plays a critical role in not only the satisfaction of those customers but also in terms of building and retaining loyal customers.

Rules governing the use of artificial intelligence across the EU will likely take over a year to be agreed upon.

Many enterprises aren’t ready to have their AI systems run independently and entirely without human intervention

Surveillance robot could help reduce disease spread and also aid contact tracing