Tag: AI
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NCC, Judiciary, to jointly fight cybercrime
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday called for the cooperation and contributions of the judiciary to checkmate rising cases of cybercrime in the country. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, made the plea in Lagos during the “2018 Annual Workshop for Judges on Legal Issues in Telecommunication’’. He said that in…
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Google keys into Facebook’s machine learning initiative
Google has announced broadening, throughout its Cloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and services, support for PyTorch, keying into the Facebook’s open source Machine Learning (ML) framework. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports this is following the release of an updated version of the deep learning framework, PyTorch 1.0 Preview, by Facebook on Tuesday. With the release of PyTorch…
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Buhari approves agency for robotics and AI for South East
Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of an agency on robotics and artificial intelligence(AI) for the South East. Onu revealed this at a grand rally of the All Progressives Congress in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state. The rally which received defectors from the Peoples Democratic…
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FG to create national artificial intelligence ecosystem – Minister
The Federal Ministry of Communications has restated its commitment to support stakeholders in the ICT to create and strengthen a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem to achieve sustainable development. The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, said this at a press conference on Thursday, in Abuja. The event was to mark the 2018 World Telecommunication…
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Rebellion against military project by Google workers grows
An internal petition calling for Google to stay out of “the business of war” was gaining support Tuesday, with some workers reportedly quitting to protest a collaboration with the US military. About 4,000 Google employees were said to have signed a petition that began circulating about three months ago urging the Internet giant to refrain…
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4 ways AI can optimize learning, teaching in Nigeria
Dr. Winnie Tang, Honorary Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, has outlined four ways nations can adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to optimizing teaching and learning. TheNewsGuru reports AI holds tremendous promise to improve our educational systems and according to Dr. Winnie, AI can provide customized learning for students and give…
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How Google is turning self-driving cars from science fiction into reality
Today at Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, Dmitri Dolgov, CTO and VP of Engineering, shared details on how Waymo is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make fully self-driving cars a reality. TheNewsGuru report Waymo is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Google began testing self-driving cars in…
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Google reveals 13 ways you’re using AI in daily living
Artificial intelligence (AI) is behind many of Google’s products and is a big priority for us as a company, according to Google AI expert, Christine Robson, who, ahead of Google I/O, shared how AI affects daily life in ways not known, and how people from all over the world have used AI to build their…
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Artificial intelligence: Software engineer seeks policies to tackle effects
A software engineer, Mr Emeka Okoye, on Tuesday called on governments to formulate policies that would tackle the effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Okoye, the Chief Executive Officer, Cymantiks, a semantic web company, made the appeal at the 2018 Social Media Week Lagos. He spoke on the topic: “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work…
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Smart Grid: China releases report detailing results of national 5G network slicing project
China Telecom, China’s State Grid and Huawei have jointly released a report that details the results of their national 5G network slicing project, which was first announced last September. TheNewsGuru gathers the report sets out the challenges encountered during smart grid development, potential application scenarios of 5G network slicing in smart grids, and analysis of…