Infodemic refers to the spread of fake news around coronavirus pandemic. While experts claim that false information around this topic is spreading faster than the virus itself, here is a strategy tech giants claim to be following to inhibit the spread of falsehood: Promoting good information: Highlighting the best information is paramount. Searching coronavirus on […]
AI has been glamorizing businesses with its gleaming promises. However, we ought to remind ourselves of recent cases where our algorithms did exactly opposite to what we had desired. Here is a list of some ill-fated initiatives that revealed dark side of Artificial Intelligence: Amazon‘s hiring tool meant to hire more women did just the […]
A mother had an emotional outburst after having ‘met’ her deceased seven-year-old daughter who died of a rare disease 4 years ago. The meeting was made possible via virtual reality by building a computer-generated model of the young daughter. However, in real world- Jang, the mother, was standing in a studio wearing a virtual reality […]
Amazon and Walmart have been using robots in warehouses for inventory management since years, but none of those devices were deployed at the stores yet. Enter retail service robots and they are meant to do just that by: roaming through grocery-store aisles to check for spill-overs from any packaged items. alerting store staff of incorrect […]
Nightmarish spread of deadly coronavirus has claimed more than 1000 lives so far- and that’s just the officially released figure! The actual number is expected to be much more than this. The world over is making use of technology to control the havoc in following ways: created by a bunch of French expats, an interactive […]