Slam Ai Club is a new property website powered by artificial intelligence. Through custom-designed algorithms, Slam Ai Club can estimate the value of any property in the UK and offers a host of resources for property buyers, sellers and agents. Inspired by the information sharing social networks such as Wikipedia, Slam Ai Club aims to connect users by providing accurate and transparent real estate data which is accessible to everyone. "Our portal is designed to make the house buying process more straightforward by making real estate data available to everyone rather than a select few giant property website or agents. "We're using an algorithm which takes into account a wide range of factors to predict property prices including transaction data from Land Registry since 1995, geo-location data from Google and Royal Mail databases, financial markets data and records from the office of national statistics." "There is an element of competition in the name'Slam AI Club' – we want to show that artificial intelligence can compete with human ability to predict property prices.

A commission representing the European Union's Catholic bishops has called on EU institutions to follow a "human-centric approach" on Artificial Intelligence, ensuring new information technologies "promote the common good and serve the lives of all human beings". "AI is a strategic technology that offers many benefits for citizens and the economy - it will change our lives by improving healthcare, increasing the efficiency of farming, contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and improving the efficiency of production systems", the COMECE report said. COMECE, a Brussels-based commission, represents the EU's Catholic bishops inside and outwith Europe. "At the same time, AI entails a number of potential risks, such as gender-based or other kinds of discrimination, opaque decision-making or intrusion into our private lives...AI should work for people and be a force for good in society". The report, published as part of an EU consultation, said the Catholic Church welcomed attempts to establish a "solid European approach" to AI, which would be "deeply grounded on human dignity and protection of privacy", and cover child safety, data protection, cyber-security and money-laundering.

Federal prosecutors are also seeking three years of supervised release and an agreed-upon restitution payment of nearly $756,500 to Alphabet Inc's self-driving car company Waymo, according to the court papers filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California. Levandowski's attorneys have asked for 12 months of home confinement for him, with an obligation to perform community service, and a $95,000 fine, the court papers added. "It is, unfortunately, no exaggeration to say that a prison sentence today can amount to the imposition of a serious health crisis, even a death sentence, given the BOP's (Federal Bureau of Prisons) current inability to control the spread of the coronavirus," Levandowski's attorneys wrote. The case stemmed from accusations by Google and its sister company Waymo in 2017 that Uber jump-started its own self-driving car development with trade secrets and staff that Levandowski unlawfully took from Google. Uber issued company stock to Alphabet and revised its software to settle the case, and the Department of Justice later announced a 33-count criminal indictment against Levandowski.

What are the most pressing issues when it comes to ethics in AI and robotics? How will they affect the way we live (and work)? Sooner or later these issues will concern you, whether you work in the field or not. Here we will go through the main ideas contained in the paper Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world, while I add some of my own input. You will not have many answers, but will probably start asking the right questions.

The weather in Florida is set fair for the launch of the American space agency's (Nasa) big new Mars rover. The one-tonne Perseverance robot is heading to the Red Planet to search for life and to begin the process of returning rocks to Earth for analysis. An Atlas rocket will send the vehicle on its way from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It'll be the third mission despatched to Mars this month, after launches by the UAE and China. Lift-off is timed for the start of a two-hour window that opens at 07:50 local time (12:50 BST; 11:50 GMT). The cruise to Mars takes seven months.

It is gradually finding its way to the public and private board room discussions and government policies. Even countries like Germany, which were lagging in the AI race, have gone through tremendous change in the past few years. According to PwC research, by 2030, Germany alone shall have Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up by 11.3% and generate €430 billion due to AI. And by percentage, this potential is more than most of the other European Nations. This makes the country as Europe's largest economy, with a thriving market and high potential for new to market brands. The study also that industries like healthcare, energy, and the auto industry will benefit from significant productivity gains by adopting AI applications.

Summary: An update and observations about China's plan to become the world leader in AI. Whether you get your news from Facebook or from the Wall Street Journal you can't help having heard that China is out to displace the US as the world leader in AI. Variously you may have heard that it's already happened or soon inevitably will. The twin questions of when they will succeed (is it inevitable) or whether they will succeed (if ever) is one I get all the time. As a red-white-and-blue American I hope not.

For a few seconds, it seems real. Then, on the horizon, the landscape gives way to rugged coastline, and, as the plane flies closer, we glimpse the rippling waves glinting in the evening sun. In real life, I have not seen the ocean for five months and, although I'm just sitting in my kitchen watching a virtual presentation of a video game, I feel a surge of emotion. When the latest instalment in Microsoft's decades-old Flight Simulator series was first shown at the E3 video game event last year, it drew gasps from the audience. Using two petabytes of geographic data culled from Bing Maps, together with cutting-edge, machine learning algorithms running on the company's Azure cloud computing network, the game presents a near-photorealistic depiction of the entire planet.

Nasa is sending a rover to Mars in the hope of finding evidence of alien life. The next-generation Perseverance rover will liftoff from Florida's Cape Canaveral before arriving at the red planet on Friday, where it look for traces of life that could once have been present on our nearest neighbour. The space agency's mission – which has cost $2.4 billion – will launch at 7.50am local eastern time, or 12.50pm in the UK. The car-sized six-wheeled robotic rover, which will launch atop an Atlas 5 rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance, also is scheduled to deploy a mini helicopter on Mars and test out equipment for future human missions to the fourth planet from the sun. The weather forecast from the Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron put chances of an undisturbed liftoff at 80 percent, reporting a slim chance that thick clouds would form over the launchpad and delay the launch.

NASA is set to launch an SUV-sized rover to Mars on Thursday, July 30 with the hopes of answering one question – is there life on the planet? The Perseverance rover will take flight aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 7:50am ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida and is scheduled to arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021. The descend to Mars has been described as'seven minutes of terror,' but if the rover makes a successful landing it will travel to Jerzo Crater - a region scientist speculate was home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago. Here Perseverance will hunt for'biosignatures' of past microbial life and collect rock core samples in slender, metal tools that will be cached on the Martian surface to be retrieved in 2026 for a return trip to Earth. The prized rover is not making the journey alone, as it will be accompanied by a helicopter named Ingenuity. NASA is comparing this mission'to the Wright brothers moment,' as it will be the first time in history an aerial vehicle has flown on another world.