Annabel KayeThe countries where robot adoption is happening faster than expectedverified_publisherQuartz - Simone StolzoffThere’s perhaps no more telling metric for our time than the number of robots in a country per every 10,000 manufacturing workers. With the threat of automation looming, it’s commonly understood that manufacturing jobs will be some of the first to go. But researchers believe the metric may not be …
Annabel KayeWhy Salesforce’s Chief Scientist Shut Down an AI Project That Identifies Human Emotionsverified_publisherFortune - Lucinda ShenWhile Salesforce has gone as far as to create an AI that can critique employees, it may be too early for an machine learning project aimed at reading …
Annabel KayeForget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk About the MultiplicityWIRED - Matt SimonThe robot revolution we're in the midst of is way more interesting and way less murder-y than science fiction. Call it the multiplicity. For a species …
Annabel KayeFirst-Ever Drone Swarm Attack Has Struck Russian Military Bases, Sources Claimverified_publisherScienceAlert - Peter DockrillEver since technological advancements made drones possible, people have warned of the potential dangers of weaponised UAVs (unmanned aerial …
Annabel KayeThe world’s largest clothing maker isn’t betting on automation replacing cheap human laborverified_publisherQuartz - Marc BainHong Kong’s Crystal Group makes clothes for many of the world’s clothing giants, including H&M, Gap, Fast Retailing (owner of Uniqlo), and L Brands (owner of Victoria’s Secret). It’s the world’s largest apparel maker by production volume, according to research firm Euromonitor, and attracted …
Annabel KayeAI’s latest application: wasting email scammers’ timeverified_publisherEngadget - Timothy J. SeppalaA role reversal we can all get behind. Schadenfreude is one of life's simplest pleasures -- especially when the victim in question is an email scammer. That's the service Netsafe's Re:scam provides. Simply forward your Nigerian prince emails to the service and it'll use machine learning to generate …