Saphila: AI needs people

A computer does nothing without instruction, SAP's Peter Blignaut told the Saphila conference this week. JASON...

CSIR boosts rural health with AI

A machine learning-powered diagnostics system autonomously helps medical professionals diagnose diseases with better accuracy and speed.

Prepare for AI digital pandemic

Amid an artifical intelligence boom, do organisations have what it takes to fend off a cybersecurity...

When stakes are high, you need automated reasoning

"Verifiable outcomes" are key when lives and investments are at stake, AWS director of applied science...

The Metaverse is coming
to get you 

Data collected in VR can identify individuals with 90% accuracy, even when anonymised.

Tech in self-drive cars 
helps diabetes patients

Reinforcement learning, a machine-learning method used for self-driving cars, could improve lives of type-1 diabetes patients.

Generative AI revolution 
comes to business

Over the past two weeks, AWS, Cisco, Oracle and Lenovo have all announced major initiatives to...

Oracle comes out of the generative AI gates

A partnership with Cohere, a leading AI platform for enterprises, is intended to develop generative artificial...

Cisco goes all out on AI

Cisco has unveiled new solutions that bring generative artificial intelligence to security and productivity.

Dr Hook: We will all have 
to master AI ‘dark arts’

Using AI will soon become second nature, as with word processors or search, let alone becoming...

AI becomes world’s fastest-growing job category

The WEF says the fastest growth in demand will be for specialists in AI and machine...

The AI-driven smartbike has arrived

Acer's first mobility solution, the ebii was announced, among a range of devices, last week at...

AWS brings conversational
AI to enterprises

Cognigy's AI platform allows companies to deliver personalised service experiences at scale, on both voice and...

Scams rope in AI voice cloning

According to the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service, impersonation attacks increased by 264% for the first...

AI improves
human conversation 

Researchers have found that people have more efficient conversations and perceive each other more positively when...

Africa and Middle East will lead AI spending growth

Investment in artificial intelligence in the Middle East and Africa will reach $3-billion in 2023, according...

Heart FM debuts AI-generated presenter

Jay I, a radio presenter generated by artificial intelligence software, took to the airwaves in South...

AI more human to elders – and that’s bad news

According to a new study, older adults perceive artificial intelligence as more human-like than younger adults...

‘Smart bandages’ will
monitor wounds

Sensors test for molecules like uric acid and conditions like pH level or temperature that may...

Now AI can solve networking problems

Artificial intelligence can automate network configuration and handle optimisation, thus helping improve the customer experience, writes...