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As our sources of knowledge, education, and learning continue to evolve every day, society has begun to determine how it feels about learning about ourselves and our world from computers and through other forms of artificial intelligence. Do we trust…
Data collection companies such as IBM and Google have entered the space of machine learning in the health care industry, and for good reason! Artificial intelligence is using data and human inputs to discover and suggest treatment options and further…
Singapore has consistently dominated WCAIR rankings, with the exception of a poor showing due to an accidental data poisoning error in Week 3. The Smartest City team lost their top spot this week because, ironically enough, of their own city’s…
Today all manual tasks are being automated, thanks to AI. AI learning algorithms help computers play chess, write poetry, perform surgeries and get smarter each time. One of the main features of this revolutionary AI era is the unsung heroes…
Following a month of political instability, Bangalore’s LetsGo Blore project has slowly stabilized their ranking. The project was marked with political controversy from the outset, after it was discovered that several city council members who had voted in favor of…
By Gareth Molina, independent reporter. Published in UN Special, 29 September 2020 Elna Ødegaard is the current Director of the United Nations Office for Global Artificial Intelligence (UNOGAI), a regulatory body based out of Brussels which has the stated aim of…
Artificial Intelligence can write poems that are good enough to make an audience think they are human written. AI is fed with images that are conjoined with human-written descriptions and poems. Such information teaches the AI the association between text…
Berlin’s Burgersrichtung Business Projekt made headlines (and leapt up the WCAIR rankings) this week after the team announced that their initial pass over city business registration databases had permitted the Berlin Police’s fraud unit to crack a tax fraud case.…
It’s the height of tourist season in Kuusamo, Finland, and a party of skiers from Spain is being drunk and disorderly on Ouluntaival Street; a typical Friday night in this remote downhill skiing center. Local police are responding, corralling the…
Tel Aviv’s LaNua Project jumped eight spots in the rankings this week, after confirmation from UCAIR rankings that the project’s computing centers had finished their first datasets and begun to issue directives to project base stations. Project lead Moishe Levy…