The wait is over as gamers get a glimpse of Activision's 2019 "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." Activision is set to redeploy "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." The next edition of the multi-billion dollar video game franchise will harken back to 2007's "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare," the first entry in the series to depart from a real-world historic conflict to explore modern-day hostilities. Since then, Call of Duty games have gone into the future with "Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" and "COD: Black Ops 3" based in 2025 and 2065, respectively. Originally, the first-person shooting games were set in World War II or the Vietnam War.

A Chinese database has exposed 42.5 million user records that were mined from a range of popular dating apps. The database was discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who said it was not password protected and the majority of the records appeared to be from US users. Worryingly, the data left exposed included users' IP addresses, geolocation data, age and usernames. A Chinese database has exposed 42.5 million user records that were mined from a range of popular dating apps. The database included 42.5 million user records from an array of dating apps.

World leaders in technology are uniting to establish a common set of guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and reel in the potential for misuse. The Global AI Council, which was created as part of a summit by the World Economic Forum in San Francisco, will focus not just on establishing standards for how AI should and shouldn't be applied across fields, but in making those standards mesh among world powers, particularly the U.S. and China. The goal of connecting disparate governments is arguably best exemplified through the council's leaders -- Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chinese AI expert Kai-Fu Lee. According to a statement from the World Economic Forum, specifically, the council hopes to establish channels of communication between partners of the council on best practices and case studies as well as addressing what it calls'governance gaps' -- presumably areas where regulation has yet to keep up with potentially harmful technology. As noted by MIT Technology Review, one particular area that will likely be a flashpoint for regulatory and ethical guidelines surrounding AI is surveillance.

Face recognition is the problem of identifying and verifying people in a photograph by their face. It is a task that is trivially performed by humans, even under varying light and when faces are changed by age or obstructed with accessories and facial hair. Nevertheless, it is remained a challenging computer vision problem for decades until recently. Deep learning methods are able to leverage very large datasets of faces and learn rich and compact representations of faces, allowing modern models to first perform as-well and later to outperform the face recognition capabilities of humans. In this post, you will discover the problem of face recognition and how deep learning methods can achieve superhuman performance.

By Pavel Sharikov, for the EastWest Institute Artificial intelligence (AI) -- defined by John McCarthy, one of the doyens of AI, as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines" -- is slowly gaining relevance in the military domain. While commercial use of AI is widening, there are only three countries that are reported to be developing serious military AI technologies: the United States, China and Russia. AI promises a significant military advantage to a nation's offensive and defensive military capabilities.

On Tuesday, news broke that Microsoft refused to sell its facial recognition software to law enforcement in California and an unnamed country. The move led to some praise for the company for being consistent with its policy to oppose questionable human rights applications, but a broader examination of Microsoft's actions in the past year indicates that the company has been saying one thing and doing another. Last week, the Financial Times reported that Microsoft Research Asia worked with a university associated with the Chinese military on facial recognition tech that is being used to monitor the nation's population of Uighur Muslims. Up to 500,000 members of the group, primarily in western China, were monitored over the course of a month, according to a New York Times report. Microsoft defended the work as helpful to advance the technology, but U.S. Senator Marco Rubio called the company complicit in human rights abuses.

Deepfakes are video manipulations that can make people say seemingly strange things. Barack Obama and Nicolas Cage have been featured in these videos. SAN FRANCISCO – When a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – one altered to show the Democratic leader slurring her words – began making the rounds on Facebook last week, the social network didn't take it down. Instead, it "downranked" the video, a behind-the-scenes move intended to limit its spread. That outraged some people who believe Facebook should do more to clamp down on misinformation.

They might actually detect and avoid objects better, says Andres Arrieta, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, because they would process sensory information faster. Better sensing capabilities would make it possible for drones to navigate in dangerous environments and for cars to prevent accidents caused by human error. Current state-of-the-art sensor technology doesn't process data fast enough -- but nature does. And researchers wouldn't have to create a radioactive spider to give autonomous machines superhero sensing abilities. Instead, Purdue researchers have built sensors inspired by spiders, bats, birds and other animals, whose actual spidey senses are nerve endings linked to special neurons called mechanoreceptors.

On Thursday 16th May, I had the pleasure of speaking at the UNESCO International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education, in Beijing. In my speech, I outlined what I think are the two most important AI principles for countries. Firstly, that AI will only succeed if it will make us more, not less, human, and secondly, that algorithms can inform our decisions and policies but must not become policy makers. Policy makers must remain human and must remain in charge. The outcome of the conference was in the consensus approved on the last day: AI in education has to be trustworthy, inclusive, and free from gender bias and privacy harms.

Companies across the world are leveraging artificial intelligence to communicate with customers, extract relevant insights out big data and solve some of the most complex problems. AI is everywhere and the way it is rising, it is prophesied to create 2.3 million jobs by 2020. However, even though AI seems to be the next big tide in the industry, many companies are not able to make the best out of this sought after technology. Maybe because they are lacking someone who would be able to make some serious decisions regarding this technology. And this calls for the much-needed job of a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO).