The South Australian government and the University of Adelaide will co-invest in a new machine learning "institute" to open next year. The institute will operate from the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site and eventually be home to 200 "creative thinkers, researchers and start-ups". The state government said it would invest $7.1 million towards establishing the institute "with $1.5 million prioritised for defence capability research projects". "The institute will dedicate a minimum of 18,000 research hours over the five-year agreement for projects which help the government to improve productivity, efficiency and service delivery for South Australians," it said. The defence work isn't explained aside from a stated aim to "build new AI-enabled defence capabilities".

Tinder now lets you see exactly what your matches are posting to social media. The dating app says its new'feed'is'an exciting new way to see more of what someone is all about by giving you a true glimpse into their world.' It shows all of their posts on Instagram, recent photos uploaded to Tinder and even what they are listening to on Spotify. The new'Feed' tab shows all of their posts on Instagram, recent photos uploaded to Tinder and even what they are listening to on Spotify. To access it, users tap on'Feed' from their Match List.

The 21st century's longest shadow hanging over the technology industry, workers, and humanity in general, is the effect that artificial intelligence, robots, and automation are going to have on jobs. The popular narrative is generally filled with lots of doom-and-gloom about AI wiping out whole industries and millions of people going unemployed, but let's take a little reality check and look at where humans do a better job than AI, and vice versa, to give you some context for how the workforce of the future is going to change. ZDNet and TechRepublic looks at the dramatic effect of AI, big data, cloud computing, and automation on IT jobs, and how companies can adapt. It's no secret that algorithms and robots can smoke humans at repetitive tasks and solving problems that involve crunching large, well-organized data sets. Humans get bored and distracted doing the same things over and over again.

Check out AI-Powered Crime Prediction at the Strata Business Summit at the Strata Data Conference in San Jose, March 5-8, 2018. Hurry--early price ends January 19. In this episode of the O'Reilly Media Podcast, I spoke with Gayle Sheppard, vice president and general manager of Saffron AI Group at Intel, and David Thomas, chief analytics officer for Bank of New Zealand (BNZ). Our conversations centered around the utility of artificial intelligence in the financial services industry. According to Sheppard, associative memory AI technologies are best thought of as reasoning systems that combine the memory-based learning seen in humans--recognizing patterns, spotting anomalies, and detecting new features almost instantly--with data.

Once, people worried about Big Brother watching them. Now, some would like Big Brother to protect the privacy of their personal data from Big AI--without realizing that artificial intelligence has already become woven into more of their lives than they realize. A majority of consumers surveyed by Genpact--59% of a sample of over 5,000 people in the U.S., U.K., and Australia--think their government should be doing more to protect their privacy from encroachment by firms that use AI. Nearly two-thirds--63%--worry that AI will make decisions that will affect their lives without their knowing about it. More than half say they don't like the idea of companies using AI to access their personal data.

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Nearly three-fourths of people say they don't want companies to use artificial intelligence (AI) if it means infringing on their privacy, new Genpact research found. The survey of over 5,000 people from the US, UK, and Australia found that only 6% of respondents say they are very comfortable with personal data being used to customize the user experience. Nearly two-thirds--63%--are concerned AI will make choices that impact them without their knowledge. For protection, 59% think their government should do more to protect consumers' personal data from AI machines. Younger generations are more likely to see value of AI compared to those over 55, the study found.

A seven-year-old boy who lost the visual processing center of his brain at two weeks old has shocked doctors by having normal sight. The unidentified Australian boy, known as BI, lost his visual cortex due to a rare metabolic disorder called medium-chain acyl-Co-A dehydrogenase deficiency. Now a report has revealed that BI is the first person ever to have normal sight without a visual cortex - he is able to play soccer, see colors and identify faces and only suffers nearsightedness. New tests showed that his brain rerouted itself to make up for sight, leading researchers to believe that newborn brains can recover and adapt much better than mature ones. An MRI shows a normal brain (left) and the seven-year-old Australian boy's brain that has been missing the visual cortex (right) since he was two weeks old The visual cortex is the part of the brain that receives and processes sensory nerve impulses from the eyes, ultimately giving you the ability to see.

An Australian boy missing the visual processing centre of his brain has baffled doctors by seeming to have near-normal sight. The 7-year-old, known as "BI", lost his primary visual cortex shortly after he was born due to a rare metabolic disorder called medium-chain acyl-Co-A dehydrogenase deficiency. Normally, the primary visual cortex is crucial for sight because it processes electrical signals relayed from the eyes. People with damage to this area are said to have "cortical blindness". However, BI has remarkably well-preserved vision, says Iñaki-Carril Mundiñano at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

There's a new way to deal with scam emails – and it doesn't involve the junk folder. New Zealand's online safety organisation, Netsafe, has launched Re:scam, a new chatbot designed to waste the time of online scammers. Netsafe describes the bot as, "the world's most inefficient and unhelpful chatbot," but assures users it only bothers the scammers. Re:scam is designed specifically for phishing emails, and works by using AI capabilities to assume multiple personas that engage with scammers in order to waste time that could be spent on potential victims. Making use of humour and grammatical errors, the bot aims to closely mimic human online tendencies in order to suck in cyber criminals into a never-ending conversation, while also collecting data that can be used to shut down the scams.