Big Ideas
Researchers have a plan to give the GPT-3 AI some "common sense"
Scientists are giving the best language AI the power of vision, allowing it to become even more indistinguishable from human speech.
AI
Technology
Watch this robotic race car not pass Go and not collect $200
It's just a glitch and they know exactly what went wrong, but it's always funny to watch expensive cars crash themselves into walls.
Technology
Lesson for AI #548: A linesman's bald head is not a football
Fans were treated to an interesting display when the AI sports camera kept mistaking a bald linesman's head for the ball.
Technology
NVIDIA Maxine promises AI-powered leap forward for video conferencing
Reduced data, real-time translation, and even adjusting where your face is looking are all possible with NVIDIA's new conferencing technology.
Sponsored
The AI driving how we experience the US Open
Dane Gambrill chats about the hardware and AI systems that support major sporting events like the US Open in 2020. Sponsored by IBM.
Business
Real-time AI event and risk detection with Dataminr
Seamus talks to Ed Pullen, Regional Marketing Director for Dataminr, to discuss how its AI helps clients learn things they didn't know they needed to know.
Big Ideas
Uplink: Prof Genevieve Bell AO
Today Seamus speaks with Prof Genevieve Bell. She's a cultural anthropologist and is known as one of the most important thinkers on technology and culture.
Business
AI in gaming chat with Frank Soqui, Intel VP of Gaming
I’ve got a short and sweet chat this week, looking at the state of AI adversaries and challenge systems in video games. Not from the perspective of ‘can this
Technology
An NVIDIA AI can turn your crappiest doodles into gorgeous lifelike landscapes
The latest AI fakery is thankfully something more peaceful and calming than most. Doodle some colours on a screen and NVIDIA's GauGAN (get it?) will turn them
Technology
Finally, an ethicist is warning us that the way we treat AI today might make them murder us tomorrow
All those videos of engineers abusing robots to show how stable or agile they are really might bite us in the butt in the future, according to one ethicist.
Technology
Vector: the cute new robot that's half pet, half assistant
We've all dreamed of owning a family robot, but so far it's been toys that spend most of their time in cupboards, or it's been vacuum cleaners.
Technology
Cortana and Alexa becoming new BFFs
The partnership to allow Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa to speak to each other is big for the companies involved, and big for progress around voice