The'America's Got Talent' judge told Fox News Digital why he doesn't like AI technology in songwriting. FORCE OF THE FUTURE: Tech company boasts its AI can predict crime with social media policing. 'RAISES QUESTIONS': Why Joe Biden's plan to'watermark' AI-generated content may be next to impossible. ARTIFICIAL-AWARENESS: A surveillance and sensor technologies provider is working to provide AI-informed video surveillance to detect weapons and other threats at schools. Iveda CEO and founder David Ly said that Iveda's AI surveillance system can be easily installed within existing video security networks.

Market-leading provider of vehicle safety systems Brigade Electronics has launched a new predictive collision detection system. Sidescan Predict is the next generation of collision avoidance systems. Supported by the Knowledge Transfer Partnership initiative with Cambridge University, the aim was to develop a cost-effective and reliable collision detection system that can intelligently discriminate potential collisions and warn the driver with sufficient time for intervention – a predictive system. Having been in development and undergone rigorous testing for more than seven years, including 10,000 hours of research, Sidescan Predict had its first trials in 2020 receiving excellent driver feedback. Drivers noticed a significant reduction in the risk of collision with both vulnerable road users and static objects.

According to Mantas Mackevicius, CTO and co-founder at TrustNFT, private investors are currently welcome as there is limited time to jump on the moving train. He noted that early investors can benefit from the discounted price, which is a big deal when compared to the swap price. The aforementioned update is in line with the project's proposed roadmap for the month of November, implying that the project organizer is strictly abiding to every set goal which is rather impressive in a field where new projects pop up and wither away every month. While the private token sales are still ongoing, applicants can also sign up for the project presale waitlist, which will also close on November 29th. Members who sign up for the waitlist get unrestrained access to the project's exclusive platform features before it goes live.

American tech company Nvidia, which designs graphics processing units for the gaming and professional markets, and co-founder Chris Malachowsky, have donated $50 million in funds, services and technology to the University of Florida, to create an artificial intelligence data center. The donation – supported by an additional $20 million from the university, will be used to create the "world's fastest AI supercomputer in higher education." Nvidia's $25 million gift will provide discounts on hardware, software, services and training – while Malachowsky's donation is a financial contribution. Nvidia's Deep Learning Institute will help develop new courses for the university, including programming for young adults and teens, as part of the partnership, which will also see collaboration on AI projects between University of Florida graduate fellows and Nvidia employees. "They should be able to make marked advancements in science, but the use of AI, to infuse it into the workforce and to help businesses upskill and become more competitive, it's something that [the University of Florida] is quite interested in, and they have the resources and the reach to make that happen," explained Malachowsky, who attended the college and met his future wife there.

Currently, the European Union does not have any specific legislative instrument or standard to regulate the use and development of AI. However, these requirements are likely to set the stage for future legislation, similar in scope and effect as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for privacy, therefore indicating that the European Union may be on the cusp of providing for specific and unique AI regulatory legislation.

Like electricity or the internet, artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a general purpose technology with the potential to transform productivity, accelerate economic growth and improve wellbeing across the whole of society. It has started, and will continue to, drastically transform the way we work and live. At least, this is what the report'Towards Our Intelligent Future' published by New Zealand AI Forum earlier this year affirms. The report represents over nine months of collaborative work on parallel streams exploring AI adoption, policy and strategy in New Zealand and around the world. It highlights the value of AI for achieving New Zealand's wellbeing, sustainability and economic goals.

The AI Forum continues to publish the outputs of our research programme. Two new reports AI for Health in New Zealand / Haoura i te Atamai Iahiko and AI for Agriculture in New Zealand / Ahuwhenua i te Atamai Iahiko explore in depth the AI opportunities for New Zealand's crucial health and agriculture sectors. Continued thanks to the AI Forum's research programme partners for their foundational support to enable this work. AI Forum Executive Council members Christopher Laing (Xero) and Michael Witbrock (University of Auckland) were recently interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on RNZ's Nine To Noon show, listen to AI: two years for NZ to get it right. Meanwhile, I was interviewed at length by the Spinoff's Russell Brown in the latest episode of the Microsoft'Artificial Intelligence – Actually Interesting' podcast series: The cancer-fighting, wildlife-protecting, life-saving power of artificial intelligence.

The job-destroying potential of artificial intelligence and automation has created much angst around the fast-evolving technology. How will we be affected and what industries and regions are likely to be hit hardest? Much needed research into the issue is starting to emerge, but the widely varying estimates on the job-destroying potential of AI and automation shows just how difficult it is to predict the impact of this potentially highly disruptive technology across the economy and society. A critical question to answer is whether artificial intelligence will be as significantly disruptive to employment as previous transformative technologies, such as electricity and the internet were. Another key question to unpick is what timeframe the transformation will occur over.

Today, every company is a technology company, with an ever shorter go-to-market cycle. Every professional role that is now touched by technology will soon be collaborating with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system or – as we prefer – an'Augmented Intelligence' system. It will be the people, not only the technology, that will drive widespread AI adoption, so it's essential to democratise AI capability for the benefit of all roles, from marketing and legal to HR and operations. A new report on New Zealand's AI future highlights the critical importance of developers in particular. Artificial Intelligence: Shaping a Future New Zealand is an in-depth study by the AI Forum exploring the opportunities and impacts of AI in New Zealand.

The ethics of artificial intelligence will be critical to the success of AI going forward, a Microsoft leader and a keynote speaker at the AI Day event in Auckland next week says. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft's AI Business, says that given AI has the potential to reshape not just industries and governments, but society as a whole. "Working on the ethics of the use of AI, from the beginning, in key areas like transparency, accountability, privacy and bias will be crucial to the success of AI going forward. "There is a strong focus on the ethical implications of the AI systems that are being built and deployed." The European Commission's group on ethics in science and new technologies recently warned that existing efforts to develop solutions to the ethical, societal and legal challenges AI presents are a'patchwork of disparate initiatives'. It added that uncoordinated, unbalanced approaches in the regulation of AI risked ethics shopping, resulting in the relocation of AI development and use to regions with lower ethical standards. AI Day on March 28 is being organised by NewZealand.AI and the AI Forum NZ, which is part of the NZTech Alliance, bringing together 14 national tech communities, more than 500 organisations and more than 100,000 employees to help create a more prosperous New Zealand underpinned by technology. Guggenheimer says one important element around the adoption of AI is the focus on having AI help to amplify human capabilities and allow them to do more versus simply replacing people and functions. "As AI is adopted by various organisations we are starting to see a few trends occurring.