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An MRI scan of the heart

An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals

22 November 2019

Doctors are using artificial intelligence in dozens of hospitals to help them make sense of MRI images of the heart


Someone looking at an outfit

AI recommends 'fashionable' outfits to millions of people in China

11 May 2019

E-commerce giant Alibaba has built an algorithm for suggesting outfits to shoppers in China. It has made over 5 million recommendations so far


Police officers

Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens

26 November 2018

Cash-strapped UK police forces are turning to AI to predict whether individuals will commit a serious violent crime or become a victim of modern slavery


Barack Obama through the display on a video camera

AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch

27 August 2018

AI can now make incredibly realistic fake videos, known as deepfakes, in high definition.  The tool is freely available meaning anyone can make convincing fakes


a robot hugs a person

Artificial stupidity could help save humanity from an AI takeover

23 August 2018

To avoid an artificial intelligence apocalypse where machines take over the world, some computer scientists are suggesting an idea called artificial stupidity


Two people watching a film

Movie studio AI predicts who will like a film based on its trailer

20 July 2018

It’s difficult to know who will like a film, so 20th Century Fox have built an AI that watches movie trailers and predicts who’s most likely to go see it


An aerial view of a damaged roof

Drones are checking up on insurance claims to look for fraudsters

17 July 2018

Insurance companies are training hundreds of drone pilots to check property damage from the air to make sure claims are legitimate


An aerial shot of a building site

AI construction worker plans the fastest way to put up buildings

6 June 2018

By considering hundreds of millions of potential schedules, an AI construction manager works out the best and fastest way for builders to put up a new building


A rabbit photobombs a picture

AI that deletes people from photos makes rewriting history easy

1 May 2018

Ugly artefacts, photobombers, or people you’d rather forget can all effortlessly be removed from photos by AI, making it easy to rewrite history


Police stop a driver whilst wearing smart glasses

Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals

7 February 2018

Police caught twenty-six people carrying fake IDs and another with links to human trafficking by using smart glasses with automatic face recognition


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