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AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology

Artificial intelligence sees things we don’t — often to its detriment. While machines have gotten incredibly good at recognizing images,…

Dec 10, 2021 Yves Mulkers 7.9M views 4 min read

AI and the question of explainability

Do we need to understand our models in order to trust them? The development of artificial intelligence and neural networks…

Apr 6, 2020 Yves Mulkers 69M views 4 min read

Why artificial intelligence doesn’t really exist yet

The processes underlying artificial intelligence today are in fact quite dumb. Researchers from Bochum are attempting to make them smarter.…

Oct 28, 2019 Yves Mulkers 115M views 3 min read

The AI arms race spawns new hardware architectures

As society turns to artificial intelligence to solve problems across ever more domains, we’re seeing an arms race to create…

Sep 25, 2019 Yves Mulkers 91M views 3 min read

A Very Short History of Artificial Neural Networks

“If you want to understand a really complicated device, like a brain, you should build one.” G Hinton, 2018. The…

Apr 24, 2019 Yves Mulkers 41M views 3 min read

Neural network implemented with light instead of electrons

Neural networks have a reputation for being computationally expensive. But only the training portion of things really stresses most computer…

Aug 6, 2018 Yves Mulkers 45M views 3 min read

What is Deep Learning and How Does It Work?

Deep Learning is a form of Artificial Intelligence, derived from Machine Learning. To understand what Deep Learning is, it is…

Jan 6, 2018 Yves Mulkers 45M views 3 min read

Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI’s Future

The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century. “Optical…

Jul 3, 2017 Yves Mulkers 39M views 3 min read

Big data getting deeper

Building a truly intelligent machine has been the holy grail of computer science since its very beginning. One of the…

Jun 3, 2017 Yves Mulkers 24M views 4 min read

What Deep Learning Can Do For Business

Every so often a new technology buzzword appears, to be picked up and repeated ad infinitum in presentations, pitches and…

May 28, 2017 Yves Mulkers 40M views 4 min read