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Find out which World Cup footballer you look like with this AI tool

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Are you more of a Ronaldo or a Kane? A new AI-powered tool, which uses facial recognition technology to find your football doppelganger, will help you find out. The artificial Intelligence will attempt to match your likeness with one of the 736 professional sportsmen currently competing in the World Cup in Russia. You can test the hilarious tool below – or via this link. To test the'Find Your World Cup Twin' tool, hit the Upload Image button at the bottom of the screen.


Trump's tweets, explained: Morning tweets correlated with logic, middle of night tweets impulsive

Daily Mail - Science & tech

An analysis of 800 million tweets over the course of four years found that humans have a predictable pattern of thinking over the course of the day. Scientists from the University of Bristol used artificial intelligence to analyze content posted to Twitter in a 24 hour period. They found that after 6am, analytical thinking peaked, hinting at a correlation of with a more logical way of thinking. Rush hour is the time when we think most about work, power, money and achievement, the study found. Our way of thinking changes at different times of the day and follows a predictable 24-hour pattern, say experts who analysed seven billion words used in 800 million tweets.


Facebook is using machine learning to spot hoax articles shared by spammers

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Facebook's fight against fake news, hoaxes, and spammers will never be over for good, but the company is doing its best to keep up the pressure on bad actors on its network. Today, it announced a number of new measures, including using machine learning to spot hoax articles that are copied and pasted by different accounts. This isn't the first time Facebook has announced it's using AI to target misleading content, and it's clear that the company exaggerates AI's power to sort good content from bad. But it does seem to be taking small, sensible steps in applying the technology. Machine learning can't automatically fact-check stories or make nuanced judgments about misleading headlines, but it can recognize easily identifiable signals that suggest an account is up to no good.


How machine learning is transforming the stock exchange

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The public perception of stock exchanges remains little changed since the Big Bang deregulated the financial markets. Anytime a trading floor is depicted in a film or TV series, you can expect to see a group of men frantically waving their arms and shouting at a bank of screens showing the ups and downs of share prices. But the reality is different. Around three-quarters of exchanges on the NYSE and Nasdaq are now carried out by algorithms - computer programs designed to follow a particular set of rules - and not human traders. The last stock exchange in Scotland closed in 1973.


Humans vs. Machines: Will Adversarial AI Become the Better Hacker?

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The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) brought with it a new set of attacks using adversarial AI, and this influx suggests the answer is likely machine. With each innovation in technology comes the reality that attackers who study the security tools will find ways to exploit it. AI can make a phone number look like it's coming from your home area code -- and trick your firewall like a machine learning Trojan horse. How can organizations fight an unknown enemy that's not even human? When cybersecurity company ZeroFOX asked if humans or machines were better hackers back in 2016, they took to Twitter with an automated E2E spear phishing attack.


IBM's Watson Takes On Risk And Regulation In Finance

Forbes - Tech

IBM is deploying sophisticated technology under its Watson Financial Services brand to improve risk management across financial firms. The initiative has several components, said Michael Curry, vice president of engineering for Watson Financial Services at IBM. "One piece is more focused on financial risk -- market, credit and liquidity risk that are associated with portfolios. The Armanta acquisition we announced a few months ago sits in portfolio management but we are applying it in other places too. "The second piece would be more operational risk, and there you have two components. One is some of the areas of financial crimes and fraud where we have our Financial Crimes Insight Engine, a platform for finding patterns of fraud and market abuse.


Basic income could work--if you do it Canada-style

MIT Technology Review

Dana Bowman, 56, expresses gratitude for fresh produce at least 10 times in the hour and a half we're having coffee on a frigid spring day in Lindsay, Ontario. Over the many years she scraped by on government disability payments, she tended to stick to frozen vegetables. She'd also save by visiting a food bank or buying marked-down items near or past their sell-by date. But since December, Bowman has felt secure enough to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. She's freer, she says, to "do what nanas do" for her grandchildren, like having all four of them over for turkey on Easter.


Finnish task force maps survival strategies in AI era - Xinhua

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Fifteen percent of current jobs in Finland are likely to disappear during the next ten years as artificial intelligence gains ground, a Finnish working group revealed on Wednesday. The widely based working group commissioned by the ministry of economic development suggested measures for bracing the impact. Osmo Soininvaara, a former Green Party MP who chaired the task force, said the losses are smaller than those experienced in the 1960s when the introduction of mechanised agriculture killed a lot more rural labor opportunities. "The problem is that in the 1960s and 1970s people were offered industrial jobs instead and often tripled their salaries. Now the new opportunities may offer lower earnings to many," Soinivaara said. Mika Lintila, the minister for economic development, commented that the forthcoming change would be comparable to the arrival of electricity in the society and industries.


UK's M&S, Microsoft sign artificial intelligence deal

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Marks & Spencer has signed a strategic partnership deal with Microsoft to test the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the retailer's stores and operations, it said on Thursday. The deal will see Microsoft's AI engineers work with M&S's engineers to examine how the technology can benefit customers and increase efficiency in its business. No financial details of the deal were disclosed.


Eventus International I Producing innovative B2B events

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Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa in Malta is located along a bustling coastline within the cosmopolitan neighbourhood of St. Julian's, a short drive from baroque Valletta, European Capital of Culture in 2018. With an indoor and outdoor rooftop pool, the hotel is perfect for a short or extended stay for Artificial Intelligence Malta Summit 2018.