EmTech Digital 2018 coverage17 Stories

Everything you need to know from EmTech Digital 2018, where the sharpest minds in the technology, management, startup, engineering, and academic communities converge.

  1. For better AI, diversify the people building it

    Speakers at EmTech Digital offered up tangible solutions to the problem of bias in AI.
    March 28, 2018

  2. AI is rapidly changing the types and location of the best-paying jobs

    Berkeley’s Laura Tyson thinks we shouldn’t worry about technological unemployment, but should fear inequality.
    March 28, 2018

  3. Fake news 2.0: personalized, optimized, and even harder to stop

    Artificial intelligence will automate and optimize fake news, warns a technology supplier to US intelligence agencies.
    March 27, 2018

  4. Google x-ray project shows AI won’t replace doctors any time soon

    Research from Google Cloud finds that applying AI to medicine is tricky.
    March 27, 2018

  5. Microsoft’s neo-Nazi sexbot was a great lesson for makers of AI assistants

    Yandex’s head of machine intelligence says Microsoft’s Tay showed how important it is to fix AI problems fast.
    March 27, 2018

  6. This security firm found rogue crypto mining infecting 1,000 customers

    Darktrace’s AI tools found one crypto side business operating under the floorboards of a bank’s data center.
    March 27, 2018

  7. The startup diversifying the AI workforce beyond just “techies”

    At EmTech Digital, Rachel Thomas of Fast.ai showed how her online-education startup can bring more viewpoints into the world of AI.
    March 27, 2018

  8. Alphabet’s moonshot chief: Regulating driverless cars demands testing the “smarts” of the systems

    Astro Teller says Waymo stress-tests its vehicles under “pathological situations,” some involving people in Elmo outfits.
    March 27, 2018

  9. Exclusive: Alphabet X is exploring new ways to use AI in food production

    Astro Teller says it’s thinking about how to pair machine learning with other technologies to revolutionize agriculture.
    March 27, 2018

  10. Adobe bets that AI tools can foster real creativity

    At EmTech Digital, Gavin Miller, head of Adobe Research, showed off prototypes of AI-enhanced tools for photo and video editing that he thinks could make more time for human artistry.
    March 27, 2018

  11. To protect artificial intelligence from attacks, show it fake data

    Google Brain’s Ian Goodfellow explains how AI systems defend themselves, onstage at EmTech Digital
    March 27, 2018

  12. Baidu shows off its instant pocket translator

    The Chinese internet giant says it’s made significant strides in machine translation thanks to neural networks.
    March 27, 2018

  13. IBM’s Dario Gil says quantum computing promises to accelerate AI

    Neural networks may one day find themselves surpassed by quantum ones.
    March 27, 2018

  14. China’s AI wizards want to entertain you, cure you, and dominate the world

    At EmTech Digital, three Chinese executives highlighted how far AI has come in the country—and what it plans for the future.
    March 26, 2018

  15. A robot’s biggest challenge? Teenage bullies.

    Robots are increasingly becoming dependable coworkers and service providers, as two speakers at this year’s EmTech Digital conference demonstrate.
    March 26, 2018

  16. AI savants, recognizing bias, and building machines that think like people

    Despite impressive advances, three speakers at EmTech Digital show how far there is to go in the AI world.
    March 26, 2018

  17. Exclusive: This is the most dexterous robot ever created

    The most nimble-fingered machine yet shows how machine learning can teach robots to recognize and pick up different types of objects, a skill that could transform many factories and warehouses.
    March 26, 2018