Calls for an outright ban on face recognition technology are growing louder, but it is already too late. Given its widespread use by tech companies and the police, permanently rolling back the technology is impossible. It was widely reported this week that the European Commission is considering a temporary ban on the use of face recognition in public spaces. The proposed hiatus of up to five years, according to a white paper obtained by news site Politico, would aim to give politicians in Europe time to develop measures to mitigate the potential risks associated with the technology. Several US cities, including San Francisco, are mulling or have enacted similar bans.

It is a truth, universally accepted, that video games do not translate well to the big screen. From Assassin's Creed to the Super Mario Bros movie, the result is usually a compromised monstrosity, ignorant of the source material and quickly disowned by the studios, directors and actors responsible for it. There have been exceptions – Detective Pikachu was weird but fine and the Resident Evil films have their fans. But films based on games are usually a mess. Have licensing managers been looking at the wrong screen the whole time?

GitHub is a clearinghouse for all sorts of open source projects, including those for machine learning, automated and otherwise. More specifically, automated machine learning is the use of automated techniques, be they learned methods or simple heuristics, used for algorithm selection, hyperparameter tuning, architecture design, or any other conceivable portion of a machine learning implementation. Switching gears, Indiana Jones is one of the greatest characters to ever grace the silver screen. Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first movie in which the character was featured, is a personal favorite, film adored by millions. The rest of the (current) quadrilogy movies run alternately hot and cold, but even the poorest quality Indiana Jones is better than 95% of available cinema.

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G - ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in. In addition to world-renowned strengths in wireless connectivity solutions, Qualcomm has invested significantly for years in research and development in advanced sensor technology, machine learning(ML) and artificial intelligence(AI) for environment sensing, perception and cognition.

I've been talking in recent posts about how our typical methods of testing AI systems are inadequate and potentially unsafe. In particular, I've complained that all of the headline-grabbing papers so far only do controlled experiments, so we don't how the AI systems will perform on real patients. Today I am going to highlight a piece of work that has not received much attention, but actually went "all the way" and tested an AI system in clinical practice, assessing clinical outcomes. They did an actual clinical trial! Big news … so why haven't you heard about it?

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São Paulo, January 2020 - Virtual assistants are increasingly present in people's routine, whether to help, answer questions and facilitate daily life. What they all have in common are women's names and the standard female voice, such as Lu, Siri, Alexa, Nat, Bia, etc. According to a study entitled "I'd Blush If I Could" published by UNESCO in May 2019, virtual assistants via Artificial Intelligence suffer from high levels of gender prejudice, although they usually answer with tolerant, subservient and passive phrases. Based on this context, the "Hey Update My Voice" movement was launched in partnership with UNESCO with the objective of drawing attention to cyber education and respect for virtual assistants, and ask companies to update their assistants' responses. If even virtual assistants are harassed, can you imagine how many women are victims of this kind of violence?

The AI Youth Lab is an initiative by 1M1B in collaboration with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030. The organisation, because of its association with the various UN bodies, has also been able to take the students it works with to UN headquarters in New York to attend, as well as address, international intra-governmental sessions. Manav Subodh, the co-founder of 1M1B, who is currently out in the countryside, working with the program's rural schools, says, "We've been working with youth around the country for the last four years, and while previously we encouraged our student participants to work on projects which can positively impact the lives of at least 10 people (no small thing in itself), we realised that by using Artificial Intelligence, we could scale up that impact by multiple factors." Subodh intends to set up over 50 labs in schools across India and abroad over the course of 2020, saying, "We provide the infrastructure, training, and all other facilities for our partner schools, so that it doesn't cost them anything. This is especially an important factor for rural schools. In fact, we're also organising mobile AI labs, which can travel between hard-to-reach villages, so as to have maximum reach."

"Artificial humans" - virtual characters - have been shown off by Samsung-backed start-up Neon at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Neon says it intends its virtual characters to act like digital "friends". However, one tech industry analyst told the BBC the demonstration failed to impress him. Ben Wood of CCS Insight said: "It was not the revolution that I was expecting." There had been great interest in Neon after the California-based outfit ran a viral teaser campaign across social media in the lead-up to the expo.

Today's Daily AI Roundup covers the latest Artificial Intelligence announcements on AI capabilities, AI mobility products, Robotic Service, Technology from AnalySwift, Blue Prism, Microsoft, Wego, OneLogin and Extreme Reach. An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space. AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. Blue Prism, a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), announces an expanded technical partnership with IBM. The collaboration integrates three core capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Automation, which includes Workflow, Capture and Decisions, with Blue Prism's Digital Workforce.