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Israel military builds up AI battlefield tech to hunt Hamas terrorists, protect against Iran threat

FOX News

Fox News Washington-based correspondent Mark Meredith has more on the future of the advanced technology as many are skeptical of its safety measures on "Special Report." The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) believes that integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into military operations presents "a leap forward," but researchers have raised concerns about the potential escalation AI would create on the battlefield. "There is an understanding in the IDF that there is a great potential for a leap forward," Col. Uri, head of the Data and AI Department, Digital Transformation Division, told Fox News Digital. "Anyone who wants to make such a change faces a huge challenge." The IDF announced in February that the force has started utilizing AI in its operations, saying that new digital methods helped produce "200 new target assets" during a 10-day operation in 2021 to successfully target at least two Hamas commanders, the Jerusalem Post reported.


Remaking 'Resident Evil 4' was a huge challenge. The team was ready.

Washington Post - Technology News

Shinji Mikami, who directed the original "Resident Evil" and "Resident Evil 4," the two most influential games in the series, recently announced his departure from Tango Gameworks, the studio he founded after leaving Capcom. His influence looms large over the current remake, but Hirabayashi said Mikami hasn't had any input into the remake. Mikami directed the first game's remake for the GameCube, which set the bar for transformative video game remakes back in 2002. But this time around, Mikami just meets up with the team for drinks in a friendly capacity.


AI cyber attacks are a 'critical threat'. This is how NATO is countering them

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a massive role in cyber attacks and is proving both a "double-edged sword" and a "huge challenge," according to NATO. "Artificial intelligence allows defenders to scan networks more automatically, and fend off attacks rather than doing it manually. But the other way around, of course, it's the same game," David van Weel, NATO's Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, told reporters earlier this month. Cyber attacks, both on national infrastructures and private companies, have ramped up exponentially and become a focal point since the war in Ukraine. NATO said this year that a cyber attack on any of its member states could trigger Article 5, meaning an attack on one member is considered an attack on all of them and could trigger a collective response.


5 Ways AI Is Revolutionizing Digital Marketing

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be an omnipotent phenomenon that influences a wide range of industries. The global AI market is predicted to snowball in the next few years, reaching a $190.61 billion market value in 2025. That's possible because AI covers everything from medicine and physics to business and social networking. Digital marketing is by no means an exception. On the contrary, it derives much of its current power from AI.


An Actual Space Laser Shows How Devastating Sea Level Rise May Be

Mother Jones

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An actual space laser is cruising 300 miles above your head right now. Launched in 2018, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite packs a lidar instrument, the same kind of technology that allows self-driving cars to see in three dimensions by spraying lasers around themselves as they roll down the street and analyzing the light that bounces back. But instead of mapping a road, ICESat-2 measures the elevation of Earth's surface with extreme accuracy. Although this space laser means you no harm, it does portend catastrophe. Today in the journal Nature Communications, scientists describe how they used ICESat-2's new lidar data to map the planet's land that's less than 2 meters above sea level, which makes it vulnerable to the creep of sea level rise.


Why Artificial Intelligence Projects Fail

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Over the last few months, I have seen the number of AI projects taken up significantly and most of the folks working on AI projects in their firms are planning to increase their AI initiatives even further over the next 12 months. Many of these initiatives come with high expectations but AI projects are far from fool-proof. In fact, there are predictions that more than half of all AI projects will fail to deliver against their expectations. Failure can happen for many reasons, however, there are a few glaring dangers that will cause any AI project to crash and burn. Based on my experience, discussing with fellow AI practitioners in various organizations and going through many surveys done in the last few months, I know these mistakes are all too frequent.


Techstars: AI startups must be wary of 'move fast and break things' mantra

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Techstars, one of the largest startup accelerator organizations on the planet, currently has 40 accelerators in 25 cities around the world. Some of its startup accelerators focus on helping early-stage companies grow, while others aim for specific sectors, like programs run with Amazon for Alexa startups and Target for retail companies. This fall, Techstars will open its very first AI startup accelerator in Montreal, a city that in the past year has welcomed Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, Google AI, and as of last month Samsung Research. The accelerator is being launched in tandem with Real Ventures, a prominent seed fund investor in Montreal, and includes advisors from Google, as well as Element AI and other companies that call Montreal home. In roughly the past year, Google AI, Microsoft Research, Samsung Research, and Facebook AI Research have all opened research labs in Montreal.


Uber's Next CEO Has to Face This Huge Challenge

TIME - Tech

Bradley Tusk, founder of Tusk Ventures who was an advisor to Uber, remembers the first time he met Travis Kalanick more than six years ago. "I'll never forget this, because it was so crazy it turned out to be true," he says. Kalanick told him that he envisioned a future in which no one would own cars -- vehicles would drive themselves and passengers would summon them by pushing a button. "There's no one in the world who's done more to make that a reality than him," says Tusk. News broke on Tuesday that Kalanick would step down as CEO of the company he founded roughly eight years ago. Since Uber's inception in 2009, venture capitalists have poured money to stake a claim in Kalanick's vision of the future, making it the most valuable startup in the world worth nearly $70 billion.