Alphabet CEO backs temporary ban on facia recognition but Microsoft boss disagrees
The European Union's proposal for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith. While Pichai cited the possibility that the technology could be used ...
Japanese matchmaking firms get high-tech lift from gadgets and AI
Artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies are starting to play a role in matchmaking as they increasingly wind their way deeper into people's lives. Today's high-tech gadgets are now being used to give people greater knowledge of potential mates, details from hobbies and smoking preferences ...
When is a photograph of nude bodies artistic or titillating? A woman's exposed nipple a political statement or erotica? A video of childbirth might show genitalia. Should what someone considers a celebration of life be censored? In 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart declined to ...
University of Tokyo fires associate professor over anti-Chinese Twitter posts
The state-run University of Tokyo said Shohei Osawa, an artificial intelligence researcher, “grossly damaged the honor and reputation” of the institution with controversial comments about hiring Chinese.
'Smile with your eyes': How to beat South Korea's AI hiring bots and land a job
In cram school-obsessed South Korea, students fork out for classes in everything from K-pop auditions to real estate deals. Now, as top Korean firms roll out artificial intelligence in hiring, job seekers want to learn how to beat the bots. From his basement office in ...
Wearing two hats, Tokyo 'entre-doctor' pins hopes on AI to enhance medical care
By day, he is the chief executive officer of a Tokyo startup. At night and on weekends, he works shifts as a doctor. He wants to keep it that way because he needs both to stay in balance. Sho Okiyama is one of the growing ...
NHK raises the dead for 'Kohaku' to mixed reviews
After NHK brought deceased enka singer Hibari Misora back to the 'Kohaku Uta Gassen' stage, reaction from viewers was mixed.
AI computer model matches human brain cancer diagnosis, study says
An AI computer model can diagnose and identify 10 of the most common types of brain cancer with the same accuracy as human doctors, researchers said Monday. More than 15 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year, and 80 percent of those will ...
U.S. technology companies that build artificial intelligence software for analyzing satellite imagery will face new restrictions on exporting their products to China and elsewhere. The Commerce Department said new export rules take effect Monday that target emerging technology that could give the U.S. a significant ...
U.S. limits exports of AI software in bid to keep tech out of rivals' hands
The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies out of the hands of rival powers like China. Under a new rule which goes into effect on Monday, companies that export ...
Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection
A Google artificial intelligence system has proved as good as expert radiologists at predicting which women would develop breast cancer based on screening mammograms and also showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. The study, which was published in ...
AI surveillance proliferating, with China exporting tech to over 60 countries, report says
Chinese companies have exported artificial intelligence surveillance technology to more than 60 countries including Iran, Myanmar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and others with dismal human rights records, according to a report by a U.S. think tank. With the technology involving facial recognition systems that the Communist Party ...
