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Cybersecurity Analysis Neural Engine Whitepaper

A fundamental challenge with cyber security systems is the associated requirement toperform sophisticated data analysis at high speed. While machine learning (ML) is effectiveat addressing many Cyber problems, its computational complexity often makes its implementationinfeasible at line rates. Signature-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs) identifyknown attacks and fall into the misuse detection class. Machine Learning approaches […]

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FPGA-based Machine Learning Whitepaper

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology is eminently applicable to a large class of computing problems in general and machine learning in particular. Compared with other technologies including central processing units, digital signal processors, graphics processing units and application specific integrated circuits, FPGAs offer unique enhancement, Parallelism, Integration and Customisation (EPIC) opportunities, leading to improved latency,

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What has changed in AI in the last 25 Years

In the late 80’s and early 90’s I was pursuing a post-graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence. It was a bit of a renaissance for the field as some significant breakthroughs occurred in learning algorithms. The availability of cheaper computing also fuelled a range of new applications. So what has changed in the past 25 years?

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When NASA Got Artificial Intelligence

Hidden Figures I recently watched the movie “Hidden Figures”. From all reports it was reasonably accurate (given some poetic license on the directors part). Apart from the obvious equal rights messages the scenes describing the implementation of the IBM machine portrayed much human drama that is relevant to today’s debates on AI. The character Dorothy Vaughn

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Jobs Versus Robots (The Robotial Revolution)

There is a recent trend of various commentators to express their opinion about what jobs robots will take. These commentaries are mostly trifles as they can only speak with some authority about the jobs already being done by robots but the speculation in pieces such as the The 5 Jobs Robots Will Take Last by Shelly

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Ethical Conundrums for Artificial Intelligence

When we think about ethics it is traditionally in the context of decisions made by humans affecting other humans, animals or the environment. These decisions are made with the usual caveats that permeate the human consciousness such as greed, fear, lust, altruism, logic, love and the full range of human subjectivity. One would think that the greatest difference in

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Emotional Intelligence as a Service

sA recent event got me thinking about some benefits of Artificial and Emotional Intelligence that are on the flip-side to the scare-mongering I referred to in earlier posts ( What is AI?, The Dumbest Doomsday Scenario). Bad Mannered Uber Driver The event was report in the Sydney Morning Herald (and a myriad of other news outlets). It

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Artificial Intelligence, Emotion and Autonomy

This blog looks at what the current limitations of Artificial Intelligence with respect to Autonomy. What is Artificial intelligence Good at Now? Artificial Intelligence is good at some very specific things, like pricing a spare room in your house for Airbnb (see “The secret of airbnbs pricing algorithm”), sequencing your genome from a sample of

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The Driverless Car – Killer App for Artificial Intelligence?

Whilst the Driverless Car is yet to own the roads there are many examples of the use of Artificial Intelligence in technology products dating back to as early as 1947 when a DC4 Aircraft was piloted by a punch card driven computer to accomplished the first entirely automatic flight across the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Newfoundland

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The Dumbest Doomsday Scenario

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled The AI anxiety: our preoccupation with superintelligence references one of the most spectacularly dumb ideas about how an Artificial Intelligence could be a threat to humanity. The scenario, envisaged by a philosopher at the Future of Humanity institute in Oxford, Nick Bostrum, is quoted below: “Bostrom’s favourite apocalyptic hypothetical involves

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