The photovoltaic (PV) industry has long been at the forefront of sustainable energy solutions, harnessing the power of the sun to generate electricity. In recent years, a new player has emerged to further amplify the potential of solar energy: Artificial Intelligence (AI). The marriage of AI and PV technology is transforming the way solar energy […]
A supercomputer predicts 25% of life on Earth will soon be extinct
Europe’s best supercomputer says 1/4 of life will be gone by 2100©Provided by The Daily Digest Earth is currently going through its sixth mass extinction event, and at the beginning of 2023, Europe’s best supercomputer predicted most of the deaths of this event are probably going to occur between now and the turn of the […]
Innovation of AI – Powered Pest Control
Pests destroy up to 40% of the world’s crops each year, causing $220 billion in economic losses, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Trapview is harnessing the power of AI to help tackle the problem. The Slovenian company has developed a device that traps and identifies pests, and acts as an advance warning system […]
How Alexa Works
We can talk to almost all of the smart devices now, but how does it work? When you ask “What song is this?”, what technologies are being used? How does Alexa work? According to Adi Agashe, Program Manager at Microsoft, Alexa is built based on natural language processing (NLP), a procedure of converting speech into words, […]
Top 10 Programming Languages to Learn in 2023
Programming languages are means of communication used by humans to instruct computers to perform specific tasks. To create programs that perform specialized tasks, these languages use particular coding syntax. A career in software programming can be lucrative. Approximately 21% of programming jobs are projected to be created by 2028. There are around 700 programming languages, […]
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
How is artificial intelligence used in medicine? Artificial intelligence in medicine is the use of machine learning models to search medical data and uncover insights to help improve health outcomes and patient experiences. Thanks to recent advances in computer science and informatics, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming an integral part of modern healthcare. AI […]
New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it : ChatGPT
A new chatbot has passed one million users in less than a week, the project behind it says. ChatGPT was publicly released on Wednesday by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research firm whose founders included Elon Musk. But the company warns it can produce problematic answers and exhibit biased behaviour. Open AI says it’s “eager to […]
4 Simple Things You Can Do to Be More Secure Online
Every week brings news of yet another data breach. Schools, factories, websites, and even government agencies get caught with their protection down, and we all suffer. There’s nothing you can do to prevent these faraway breaches, but rather than bemoan that fact, get busy! There’s plenty you can do to protect your own devices, data, and […]
What is Google Bard? Here’s everything you need to know
When was Google Bard announced? Bard was unveiled on February 6 in a statement from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Even though Bard was an entirely new concept, the AI chat service that was launched was powered by Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), which was unveiled two years prior. How does Google Bard work? Google Bard […]
Human Interfaces
Background To date, the effort spent to define Cognitive Technology (CT) as a distinct field of inquiry, has emphasised the need to pragmatically understand the dialectic relationship between the use of augmenting artefacts and the process of cognitive adaptation resulting from exposure to fabricated environments1. The central position has been defined as the need to study human […]