A Bay Area startup has been using machine learning to pull out data points like building geometry, roof condition information, and nearby tree cover.
When insurance companies offer quotes on homeowner’s insurance, they naturally want to know as much as they can about the property involved.
The robot detects brainwave patterns that are generated subconsciously.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can effectively learn to read people’s minds to understand when it’s made a mistake.
Machine learning is helping the insurance industry flag suspicious claims–and even crawl through social media accounts to find fraud.
From bogus claims to shady brokers, insurance fraud costs companies and their customers more than $40 billion a year, the FBI estimates. And that’s excluding medical insurance fraud, which is estimated by industry groups to cost tens of billions more.
Experts from the Future of Privacy Forum and the data management platform Immuta say the industry has yet to come up with a standard way to assess AI risks.
If you’re using machine learning in your organization, you probably should be thinking about how to manage the ethical, legal, and business risks involved if something goes wrong.
A survey of Black Hat security conference attendees found them pessimistic about privacy and security.
About 65% of surveyed current and former attendees at the annual Black Hat USA security conference say they’re limiting their use of Facebook or not using it at all after the recent controversies over the company’s security practices, Black Hat reports.
The Open AI Five bots simulate 180 years of play in a day. They’ll take on the world’s best Dota 2 players at The International esports tournament in August.
Come August, a matchup of epic proportions will go down between humans and bots playing the popular team battle game Dota 2. And the machine players, built by OpenAI, the research nonprofit cofounded by Elon Musk, may very well prevail.
The company’s bot is learning what Facebook ads look like so it can block them, even as Facebook tweaks its code.
The makers of Adblock Plus want you to submit screenshots of the ads in your Facebook feed so a new artificial intelligence system called Sentinel can learn to recognize them.
At least two Facebook patents describe listening to users’ TVs. Facebook says it will “never” deploy the technique, but other firms are using similar methods.
Amid persistent rumors that Facebook is spying on you through your phone’s microphone–rumors that the company has denied since at least 2016–reports emerged this week that the company has applied for a patent on technology that listens to “ambient audio” to detect what you’re watching on TV.
Digital attacks stealing funds from cryptocurrency exchanges appear to be rising quickly.
About $761 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from exchanges in just the first half of 2018, Reuters reports, citing blockchain security firm CipherTrace.
“We’ve never seen documents of this magnitude being sold on the Dark Web,” the report says.
Researchers at security firm Recorded Future have spotted a hacker selling sensitive documents about military drones, the company said in a report Wednesday.
Facebook essentially admitted that it doesn’t believe in shutting down pages on the site that repeatedly promote fake news.
In a Twitter clash with CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, Facebook essentially admitted today that it doesn’t believe in shutting down pages on the site that repeatedly promote fake news.
An Upper West Side concierge allegedly used rent checks in a forgery and fraud scheme that leveraged Snapchat and other apps to lure young participants.
The New York rapper Young Ash was indicted in Manhattan court this week for her role in a scheme in which she allegedly recruited people on social media to let fraudsters deposit $50,000 in counterfeit checks into their bank accounts.
Mariia Butina, 29, was arrested on Sunday and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government.
Mariia Butina, a 29-year-old Russian who recently received a master’s degree from American University, was arrested on Sunday and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government.
Miniature fulfillment centers could let customers place grocery orders and pick them up in as little as a half-hour.
Your local supermarket could soon be home to a miniature robotic warehouse.
A former Intel exec will be the first to hold the position at the ridehailing firm.
Uber is enlisting Ruby Zefo, Intel’s chief privacy and security officer, as its first-ever chief privacy officer, reports the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Zefo is also a member of that organization’s board.
AI leaders say they won’t contribute to the development or use of lethal autonomous weapons.
A group of top companies and researchers in the artificial intelligence field, including Alphabet’s DeepMind, Clearpath Robotics/Otto Motors, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and University of California at Berkeley Professor Stuart Russell have signed a pledge not to participate in or support the development of lethal autonomous weapons, colloquially called killer robots.
Despite reports from Homeland Security and intelligence officials that election hacking on the scale of 2016 has yet to be seen, experts caution Russia could still strike between now and Election Day.
As the 2018 midterm election season heats up across the country, U.S. government officials say they’ve yet to see digital attacks by Russia on the scale of the 2016 presidential election–but cybersecurity experts warn that it’s too early to tell, noting that it’s still early in the election cycle.
In an agreement with the Washington state attorney general, Facebook agreed to make changes and pay for legal bills but denied violating the law.
Facebook has agreed to take steps within 90 days to limit what the Washington state attorney general’s office said was “unlawful discrimination,” by ending the ability of advertisers to exclude certain ethnic and other identity groups from seeing certain ads.
The group says the facial recognition software falsely spotted 28 members of the House and Senate in a mugshot database, with a higher rate of false matches for people of color.
In a new experiment conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union, Amazon’s image recognition tool falsely matched 28 members of Congress to mugshots of other people who had been arrested for a crime, according to the ACLU.
Members of Congress expressed concern about Amazon’s facial recognition tech and its impact on civil liberties, particularly among people of color.
Two prominent members of Congress have asked to meet with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after Amazon’s Rekognition image recognition software incorrectly matched their images with other people’s mugshots in an American Civil Liberties Union test, BuzzFeed News reports.