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…
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Week 6: Singapore (Doesn’t) See the Light
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…
A look behind the scenes: the people doing data entry for AI
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…
Week 5: Bangalore Finds its Feet
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…
The AI Municipality: UNOGAI and the Future City; an interview with Elna Ødegaard
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…
How poetic would an artificial intelligence be?
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…
Week 4: Berlin Cracks the Case
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.…
Robodogs on Patrol: Kuusoma, Finland’s AI Policing Success Story
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…
LaNua Motors Up
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…
Should Artificial Intelligence Decide What is Right and What is Wrong?
Artificial intelligence is beginning to make its way into legal systems throughout the world. At the highest level, artificial intelligence can be used to help judges and others within the judicial system deliver judgments and sentencing free from human bias…