AI

Commentary / World Oct 16, 2018

An AI wake-up call from ancient Greece

by Adrienne Mayor

Those warning about artificial intelligence's dangers are right to invoke Pandora and her jar of miseries.

Business / Tech Oct 11, 2018

Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women: sources

Amazon.com Inc.'s machine-learning specialists learned something unexpected from the machine: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants' resumes, with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar ...

Business / Tech Oct 10, 2018

Instagram ramps up battle against cyberbullying, taps AI

Instagram on Tuesday added more weapons to battle cyberbullying, using artificial intelligence to scan photos for abusive content at the Facebook-owned service. The move comes after Facebook also increased anti-harassment measures, following a survey that said young victims of online abuse feel social media firms ...

Business / Corporate Oct 4, 2018

Toyota and SoftBank to integrate mobility and AI in new venture

by Cory Baird

The two industry titans said they are setting up a new joint venture to develop autonomous driving technologies and other on-demand services.

National Sep 27, 2018

'Summer Davos' in China casts spotlight on technological advances beyond Silicon Valley

by Sayuri Daimon

The award-winning virtual reality film "Tree" offers a rare multisensory experience of becoming a rainforest tree from a seedling in just 15 minutes. Reading a short speech into a microphone analyzes your voice and tells who you are — your sex, height, skull type, ...

National Sep 25, 2018

Japan's defense officials to use AI for record management

The Defense Ministry plans to use artificial intelligence for the management of public records, drawing lessons from the mishandling of daily Self-Defense Forces activity logs, according to officials. Under the project, AI algorithms will "learn" the content of public records and ensure that every related ...

Business Sep 24, 2018

Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine, tap AI tech

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday. Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already ...

National / Politics Sep 23, 2018

Japan, China plan to launch 'innovation dialogue' with focus on self-driving vehicles, AI

In another sign of improving bilateral relations, Japan and China will pursue cooperation in developing advanced technologies in areas such as self-driving cars and artificial intelligence, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The two countries are planning to launch an "innovation dialogue" involving officials ...

Commentary / Japan Sep 20, 2018

Adapting to the fourth industrial revolution

by Takamitsu Sawa

Now is the time for launching open discussions in earnest on how to wisely adapt to the disruption that the fourth industrial revolution is expected to bring about.

Business / Tech Sep 14, 2018

Uber revs up Canadian operations with new AI funding for Toronto self-driving car lab

American ride-sharing service Uber said Thursday it would spend 200 million Canadian dollars ($154 million) over five years to expand its Toronto lab dedicated to developing artificial intelligence for self-driving cars. The company also will open a new engineering office in Canada's largest metropolis in ...

National Sep 3, 2018

Japanese police to test AI use for improving investigations of criminal activity

The National Police Agency plans to conduct experiments in fiscal 2019 on using artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of investigations, including for analyzing vehicle types. AI will also be employed to look into questionable financial transactions and discover suspicious people and objects during large-scale ...