China’s top security officer has revealed plans to use artificial intelligence to predict crime, terrorism and social unrest before it happens. Meng Jianzhu, the head of the Chinese Community Party’s central commission for political and legal affairs, sai... (more…)

This week marks my one-year anniversary of quitting my full-time job and becoming a freelance AI engineer. I’m writing down my thoughts and experience here so that this might be useful if you are even vaguely interested. (more…)

Blue River Technology builds an intelligent sprayer that leverages PyTorch to targets weeds without harming crops. (more…)

Artificial intelligence is being used to create new songs seemingly performed by Frank Sinatra and other dead stars. ‘Deepfakes’ are cute tricks – but they could change pop for ever... (more…)

Ian Schick, the co-founder and CEO of patent drafting automation company Specifio has now launched Draft Builders, a ‘gig economy’ patent attorney network, in what is a novel business m… (more…)