Technology Archives

Artificial Intelligence: Fake it ‘till you make it

As AI-generating tools become more sophisticated, regulation is likely to follow. In 2023, the world was deceived by artificial intelligence. Fact-checking is now much more difficult, but it’s a necessary quest.

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Artificial Intelligence: Master the machine? Or mastered by the machine?

Artificial intelligence can offer many benefits to human creativity, but it also poses some challenges and risks that need to be addressed. By exploring the power of AI in a responsible and ethical manner, new opportunities for human creativity and innovation can be unlocked.

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Worth the Visit

Ready to be connected in a kind of blended-reality state. The idea of the metaverse is yet to be defined and the absence of a clear definition makes it difficult to know how to navigate in a virtual world that is still taking shape.

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Willing to Act

Welcome to Earth Bits, a data-driven exhibition around the environmental crisis held at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon. The Executive Director of MAAT, Beatrice Leanza, takes us on a guided tour through the exhibition.

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Men That Become Machines, Machines That Become Men

Chess champion Gary Kasparov contemplating board, training for his May rematch w. smarter version of Deep Blue, IBM computer that spooked him last yr.

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Following AI Breadcrumbs

Artificial Intelligence has been driving the most recent technology advancements, but the fundamentals of computer science that inspired the most unusual inventions have been around for quite some time. Time to revisit some significant milestones.

Amazon Go convenience store entry entrance turnstiles, Chicago, IL December 14, 2018

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Cross-layer Learning

Walking into a store, picking up an item and walking out. No lines. No cash. This is just a glimpse of the revolution Deep Learning is leading in the retail area. The Head of Customer Intelligence & Analytics at Jeronimo Martins, Daniel Vieira, fills us in on the major changes underway.

A woman looks at a work of art created by an algorithm by French collective named OBVIOUS which produces art using artificial intelligence, titled "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy" (estimate: $7,000-10,000) at Christies in New York on October 22, 2018.

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Deep Learning, Artificial General Intelligence and Whole Brain Emulation

Although machine learning became proficient at many different tasks, deep learning models still learn in ways that are very different from the way humans do. Professor Arlindo Oliveira, a specialist in Computer Science, debates the future of AI and its main challenges.

Michael Harris posing for a portrait session

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Life before and after the Internet

For Michael Harris, author of “The End of Absence”, his generation is the last to remember life before the Internet, being the only translators of “before” and “after”.