But thanks to Microsoft, at least we'll be listening to Stevie Wonder after the apocalypse. The tech giant is partnering with Elire Group to etch the world's music onto glass plates, and bury them in a remote arctic mountainside to ride out the end of the world. The Global Music Vault will share space with the Global Seed Vault (better known as the Doomsday Vault) in Svalbard, Norway. The Doomsday Vault houses the largest collection of agricultural seeds on the planet. The Global Music Vault aims to match its neighbor seed for song.

This article is part of my Data Trust series of talks and writing. The purpose of these articles are to break down complex but important socio-technical topics in a manner that is accessible to both practitioners and non-practitioners. Most tools we use today leverage AI/ML from the moment we wake up and while we sleep. Humans build Machine Learning, and humans are inherently biased. Since humans aren't perfect, we encode our biases into the data we use to train AI.

Microsoft, NASA, and students from two HBCUs in the Reston/DC area have completed the maiden mission of a new Microsoft/NASA partnership, STEM Educational Project: AI looking for new Earths. Using methodology developed by The Microsoft Garage over years of running hackathons, in just one month – and while completing their final exams – the student hackers learned and deployed several new technologies, and quite literally reached the stars by showing they could deploy code to the International Space Station. According to Piali Ghose, Director of The Garage Reston/DC and host of the event, "This hackathon amplifies the cultural priorities closest to our hearts here at Microsoft and at The Garage because it allows us to continue fulfilling our stated commitments to making a difference, seeking diversity and being inclusive in our work, bringing multiple teams together as'One Microsoft' while collaborating with federal and academic partners, and doing all of this with a growth mindset." The partnership emerged from a shared goal of fostering the future STEM workforce by exposing university students to science, tools, and expertise "at the intersection of Space Cloud." By structuring the project as a month-long hackathon, participating students learned how real data scientists work as a team to ideate, develop, and validate their work with a proof of concept.

I know we're not supposed to engage in animal cruelty, but locusts are doing way to much in South Africa. In this week's edition of TC Weekender, one of the stories we're highlighting explores how South Africa is fighting locusts with artificial intelligence.

Microsoft inadvertently learned the risks of creating racist AI, but what happens if you deliberately point the intelligence at a toxic forum? As Motherboard and The Verge note, YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI language model using three years of content from 4chan's Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, a place infamous for its racism and other forms of bigotry. After implementing the model in ten bots, Kilcher set the AI loose on the board -- and it unsurprisingly created a wave of hate. In the space of 24 hours, the bots wrote 15,000 posts that frequently included or interacted with racist content. They represented more than 10 percent of posts on /pol/ that day, Kilcher claimed.

Dr Abdulsalam Salman, the Librarian, Kwara State University (KWASU) Malete, said the library will introduce Artificial Intelligence and Robotics to address the challenges of staff shortage in the Dept. Salman Friday said that the introduction of robots was one of the ways of digitalising the services in the library. "One of my missions is to see how we can fully digitalise the services in the library. "We are trying to introduce Artificial Intelligence and Robotics where we can use robots in providing library services. "Instead of you interfacing with humans, robots will take over, so, the issue of understaffing that we have as a challenge will be taken care of," the librarian said.

Finest security and threat administration practices can mitigate legal responsibility publicity. Because the trade matures, and operations turn into extra advanced, now greater than ever, drone insurance coverage ought to issue closely in enterprise choices. On this article, Elad Shalev, Advertising and marketing Supervisor at SkyWatch.AI, drone trade insurance coverage leaders, offers insights into the highest three trade and accident developments, in addition to ideas to assist drone companies soar. Based in 2018, SkyWatch.AI was one of many first corporations to make use of expertise, analytics and telematics to higher assess the dangers of drone operations. That knowledge in the end knowledgeable a variety of plans to scale back threat for drone operators globally.

I have long been intrigued by archaeogaming--an academic discipline that explores the fusion of archaeological objects, methods, and characters into video games. So I was thrilled when the video game company Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed: Origins, set in Egypt during Cleopatra's reign. The designers collaborated with Egyptologists to ensure everything from the architecture to the hieroglyphics created an accurate, immersive world. Unexpectedly, this partnership inspired a machine-learning spinoff that changed the course of my early career. While working with Egyptologists, the game developers learned that translating and interpreting ancient hieroglyphic texts is time-consuming, and the process has changed little in the last century.

Its fellow countdown – run by ABC Classic – usually does not. As its name implies, the Classic 100 is typically a more subdued affair. Unlike its boozy, bombastic cousin, the ABC's classical music station broadcasts the top 100 over multiple days. And since its inception in 2001, the annual countdown has been themed around certain genres or forms, asking listeners to vote for their favourite operas, symphonies and, one year, French compositions. This year, though, the Classic 100 might sound a little different.

If you're concerned about the biases and bigotry of AI models, you're gonna love the latest addition to the ranks: a text generator trained on 4chan's /pol/ board. Short for "Politically Incorrect," /pol/ is a bastion of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and far-right extremism. These attributes attracted Yannick Kilcher, an AI whizz and YouTuber, to use /pol/ as a testing ground for bots. Kilcher first fine-tuned the GPT-J language model on over 134.5 million posts made on /pol/ across three and a half years. He then incorporated the board's thread structure into the system.