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AI Military Solutions? In recent years, China has looked to private start-ups to share any new technologies developed with the military in efforts to improve defences by way of AI. Now, the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) has selected 31 students to trial an experimental...
Innovating for diversity: 1 Diverse teams are better at innovation. And in the 21st-century business model, where innovation is key to harness digital transformation, the gig economy and a barrage of other developments, organisations that promote and increase diversity are at a...
Programming Cars To Break The Law Should you obey section 72 of the Highways Act 1835? This is a question drivers ask themselves (I'd assume in most cases unconsciously) every day. The act imposes a penalty for "wilfully rid[ing] upon any footpath or causeway by the side of any road made...
Thinking like a bank is not always the answer Welcome roadmap Guidelines, written with the help of the UK's five largest banks, have been developed to help Fintechs in the often daunting task of working with established financial institutions. These provide helpful pointers and tangible landmarks as...
The Self-Driving Trolley Problem You have two options:  1. Crash a car, killing a woman and a child. 2. Run over four men who are crossing a road at a red light.  How do you decide? Do you save the greatest number of lives, no matter what? Or do you give preference based on age, or...
AI can read your poker face News emerged last week that the EU is set to launch a trial of an artificial intelligence powered lie detection tool which can use facial expression 'bio markers' to detect whether or not someone is being dishonest about their immigration status....
Harvard's Caselaw Access Project It was good news for budding legal AI researchers this week as Harvard announced its "Caselaw Access Project". The project makes 6.4 million US case reports freely available from the Harvard Law School Library. The disparate nature of state-level case...
Dr. Alexa will see you now The image below, from the Journal of the American Medical Association, is a child's depiction of her healthcare experience: she is sat on the examination table and her doctor on the computer, turned away from her. Healthcare is just one example of an...
Practical Uses for Virtual Reality Since its launch to the mainstream market, virtual reality (VR) has been seen by many as simply the latest development in the gaming and entertainment industry. But increasingly, VR is being used in a wide range of different sectors to transform how...
The dark side of IoT One industry where the Internet of Things (IoT) has really taken hold is Healthcare. The advances that have been made in recent years are staggering - we now live in a world where healthcare is moving from reactive to proactive and data from wearables,...