Beyond the AI hype and controversial reports about automatic translation achieving parity with human translation, neural machine translation (NMT) has undoubtedly made spectacular progress in the last three years. Should professional translators resist ... Read more >
The 2018 "Digital Education Action Plan" is the last in a long series of initiatives taken by the EU in the field of digital education. It warns of the persistent ... Read more >
An article in the Moscow Times reports that Russian activists were arrested in February for holding a "face paint protest" against facial recognition technology. The Telegram-based campaign, called Sledui ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Students preparing for a job interview have to face a "stark new reality", reads a recent article by Rachel Metz for CNN Business: they could be vetted in part by ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"What Happens When Machines Learn to Write Poetry?". This is the title of a recent article for The New Yorker by Dan Rockmore, Associate Dean for the Sciences and Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A research team from three New Zealand universities has built an AI model regarding language transmission that splits populations up by looking at whether they fall into one of three levels of proficiency in a ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Academics in Prague have recently used machine learning to investigate how much of the play Henri VII was written by William Shakespeare and how much was written by John Fletcher, another famous and prolific playwright ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In a very entertaining article for a recent issue of The New Yorker author and journalist John Seabrook recounts his experience with predictive text AI, and, in particular, with "Smart Compose", a feature introduced by ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Mathematicians, computer engineers and scientists in related fields should take a Hippocratic oath to protect the public from powerful new technologies, says leading reseracher Hannah Fry, Associate Professor in The Mathematics of Cities, at ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US, offers students an experimental course, fruit of a collaboration with IBM: students are "teleported" to the busy streets of Beijing, where the environment is equipped with AI capabilities to respond ... Read more >