by admin | Nov 14, 2024 | AI, Meta, Military, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Meta will make its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to the United States’ government, the tech giant has announced, in a controversial move that raises a moral dilemma for everyone who uses the software. Meta last week revealed it would make...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024 | AI, artificial intelligence, News, Other Tech News, Technology, The Conversation
Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves. In...
by admin | Nov 12, 2024 | Energy, green energy, Jobs, News, Other Tech News, skills, South Africa, The Conversation
Globally, there’s a shortage of people with the expertise and skills needed to drive the transition towards a green economy – known as green talent. The pool of green talent needs to be doubled by 2050 if the world is to move away from fossil fuels. In South Africa,...
by admin | Nov 11, 2024 | AI, Aliens, language, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues,...
by admin | Nov 11, 2024 | facial recognition, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Facial recognition technology is becoming more widely used, but this has not been matched by wider acceptance from the public. Controversies continue to hit the media, with both public and private sector organisations frequently outed for flawed deployments of the...
by admin | Nov 10, 2024 | Africa, electric vehicles, EVs, Motoring News, News, South Africa, The Conversation
In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. Vehicle emissions also contribute to global warming. Electric vehicles could help solve these...