Interpol, the global security organization has just announced ‘the first-ever metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement worldwide.’ They report that this would help police officers worldwide to ‘interact with other officers via their avatars,’ and take ‘immersive training courses in…
Study Reveals That AI Tools Do Not Reduce Recruitment Bias
Researchers from Cambridge University recently said in a study that Artificial Intelligence (AI) hiring tools do not improve diversity, neither do they reduce bias. ‘There is growing interest in new ways of solving problems such as interview bias,’ the researchers…
AI Model Assesses Middle School Science Essays
A team of computer scientists at the Penn State University recently studied the efficiency of Natural Language Processing—a form of AI— for evaluating and giving feedback on the science essays of students. Their results were detailed in the International Society…
Researchers Say Anonymous Data doesn’t equal Private Data
A research team at the Illinois Institute of Technology have been successful in extracting personal information such as gender and age from anonymous cellphone data making use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. This has raised a lot of…
Computer Science Professor is Awarded MacArthur Genius Grant
Yejin Choi, a professor of the University of Washington in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering has been awarded a ‘genius grant’ from the MacArthur Foundation. According to UW, Choi has been using natural language processing…
DeepMind Creates Faster Algorithms to Solve Difficult Math Problems
Researchers at DeepMind AI in London have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the ability to create shortcuts in a fundamental mathematical calculation, by translating the problem into a game, and using the machine learning techniques used to beat human players…