By Bhavana Gowda Of late, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered an emerging technology that has boosted efficiency over many industry verticals. It is safe to say that AI has transformed lives mostly positively. On the other hand, COVID-19 has transformed billions of lives across the globe negatively and has left everyone wishing things return to normal as soon as possible. …
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar in Punjab and Monash University, Australia have developed a unique detector named ‘FakeBuster’ to identify imposters attending a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge. It can also find out faces manipulated on social media to defame or make a joke of someone. A paper on this technique – FakeBuster: A DeepFakes Detection Tool …
Dr Deepak Padmanabhan, a researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when processing data. Dr Padmanabhan has been leading an international project, working with experts at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Savitha Abraham and Sowmya Sundaram), to tackle the discrimination problem within clustering algorithms. …
US-based non-profit, 1M1B (1 Million for 1 Billion) Foundation has announced that it will set up AI Youth Labs in 50 schools across India this year, of which 10 will be Mobile Labs for rural and underserved schools in Karnataka, AP, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, giving access to over 40-50 schools. The launch was announced in the presence of Hawa Diallo, …
