Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Scientists have discovered how to extract the template images that the human mind uses to recognise objects, such as balls, cars and people. Here’s a curious experiment. Take some white noise and use...
View ArticleFour ways that technology could destroy mankind
Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence could rise up and destroy mankind. Is he right? We look at four ways that technology could be the end of us Stephen Hawking has pushed forward...
View ArticleThe rise of disability tech
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Something we don’t hear enough about is how technology is helping the lives of those with disabilities. From robots that can help you remember things,...
View ArticleRoboBrain: The World’s First Knowledge Engine For Robots
If you have a question, you can ask Google or Bing or any number of online databases. Now robots have their own knowledge database One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the...
View Article“Smart” Software Can Be Tricked Into Seeing What Isn’t There
Humans and software see some images differently, pointing out shortcomings of recent breakthroughs in machine learning. Images created to trick machine learning algorithms. The software sees each...
View Article2014 in Computing: Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
The past year saw new breakthroughs in making intelligent software and using it to solve problems in areas such as medicine. The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close...
View ArticleTranshumanists are on a quest to discover eternal life. Is the citizen...
Immortality aside, DIY “bio-hacking” could provide solutions to everyday problems, despite the risks involved For the last week I’ve been travelling around California and Nevada on a 40 foot, 1978 bus...
View ArticleThe Connected Car Is With Us, But Big Hurdles Still Need To Be Jumped
FRANKFURT, Germany – The world’s automotive industry has embraced the connected car, but it remains to be seen if buyers actually want the impressive options available, or whether they will even work...
View ArticleWhy Every Human Will Have An IP Address By 2025
“I am not a number. I am a free man!” Earlier this year the availability IPv4 addresses ran dry, much like fossil fuels will in the future. While IPv6 is slowly being adopted the number of addresses...
View ArticleWhy are Big Data and Analytics such a game changer for HR?
As outlined in this blog by our colleagues Iain Hubert and Nigel Lewis, there are a number of reasons why big data and analytics are vital to the to the future of HR functions. “Today’s human resources...
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