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Elon Musk denies Azealia Banks' claim he was on Twitter while on acid

The Independent - Tech

Elon Musk has responded after rapper Azealia Banks made a series of lurid claims about him. The Tesla founder was tweeting while on drugs and may have invited the musician to his house to have sex with him and his girlfriend Grimes, she suggested. But Mr Musk told Gizmodo he had has "never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way". The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


How Bloomberg journalists use data science to move financial markets

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Bloomberg journalists have been breaking business news since 1990, but these days their reporting relies increasingly on data science. This change has thrust the head of data science, Gideon Mann, into a key role in the newsroom. The computer science graduate spent seven years as a staff research scientist at Google before he joined Bloomberg in 2014, but had little prior experience of finance and was initially surprised to see the influence that journalists have on markets. "Before I started at Bloomberg, I didn't understand the nature of how news moves markets," Mann told Computerworld UK from Bloomberg's new ยฃ1 billion European headquarters in the heart of the City of London. "Things happen in the real world and usually there's a journalist that's writing and talking about them and spreading the word, and that's how that information gets disseminated."


There's a reason Siri, Alexa and AI are imagined as female โ€“ sexism

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Virtual assistants are increasingly popular and present in our everyday lives: literally with Alexa, Cortana, Holly, and Siri, and fictionally in films Samantha (Her), Joi (Blade Runner 2049) and Marvel's AIs, FRIDAY (Avengers: Infinity War), and Karen (Spider-Man: Homecoming). These names demonstrate the assumption that virtual assistants, from SatNav to Siri, will be voiced by a woman. This reinforces gender stereotypes, expectations, and assumptions about the future of artificial intelligence. Fictional male voices do exist, of course, but today they are simply far less common. HAL-9000 is the most famous male-voiced Hollywood AI โ€“ a malevolent sentient computer released into the public imagination 50 years ago in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.


Microsoft Artificial Intelligence CustomVision Service

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The Custom Vision Service is part of the larger Azure Cognitive Services collection. The best use case for this tool is if you have a specific collection of unique things. If you just want to detect common things in images you're better off using the Computer Vision API. In this step, I will create a new project to train a model. This model should recognize the Eiffel tower and triumphal arch in Paris.



Can artificial intelligence recognize hate speech? Cronkite News

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This data representation shows common terms used in hateful comments on Reddit, Twitter, and other social media sites compared to non-hateful comments. BERKELEY, California โ€“ A group of researchers has partnered with the Anti-Defamation League to fight online hate speech by teaching computers to recognize it on social-media platforms. The Online Hate Index project out of the D-Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, aims to identify hate speech, study its impact and eventually design a plan to counteract hateful content. Using artificial intelligence, teams of social scientists and data analysts are working to code programs that can search through thousands of posts looking for malicious content, said Claudia Von Vacano, executive director of digital humanities at Berkeley. The program correctly identifies about 85 percent of hate speech, even though the project is in its early stages.


Artificial Intelligence

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