Browsing: Artificial intelligence

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has embarked on a journey that will see it embrace technological advancement. In a…

Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism.

Consumers expect an array of beneficial services from connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell and…

by Christoffer Heckman In its annual report, the AI Now Institute, an interdisciplinary research centre studying the societal implications of…

by Mauro Vallati Will artificial intelligence one day surpass human thinking? The rapid progress of AI, coupled with our standard…

by Rozita Dara A few short years ago, personal digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant sounded…

by Sara James, and Sarah Midford If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about…

South African mobile operator MTN, together with Huawei launched their C-band 5G trial on the first day of AfricaCom 2019,…

by Subhash Kak Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the…

by Marcus Tomalin and Stefanie Ullmann Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our…

by Ivan Manokha Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US…

by Harry Collins We’re entering the age of artificial intelligence. And as AI programs gets better and better at acting…

by Rachel Adams Suggest to Samsung’s Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby “Let’s talk dirty”, and the female voice will respond with…

by Alexandros Antoniou The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence…

by Sharona Hoffman The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI…

The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, in partnership with the…

by Prince C. Oguguo According to the 2018/2019 report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, African countries such as Angola and…

by Max Eiza Driving long distances without a passenger can be lonely. If you’ve ever done it, you might have…

by Willem Fourie Earlier this year, 17 African countries presented their progress on reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs,…

by David Evans Bailey Immortality has been a topic of discussion since the legend of the Holy Grail. Some people…

by Juan Mateos-Garcia Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying…

By Lee Naik Terminator and The Matrix got it wrong. We all thought the villains of the AI era would…

by Rachel Adams The Fourth Industrial Revolution is, ostensibly, upon us. The term was coined in 2016 by Klaus Schwab,…

by Wim Delva The term “data science” was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in…

by Wim Naudé Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s…