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GCHQ partners with researchers to tackle fake news & AI threats

Homeland August 14, 2020

GCHQ are to launch a fellowship scheme to research national security priorities such as deep fakes, fake news and Artificial Intelligence. The new partnership programme – named the Research Fellowship Programme for National Resilience will offer applicants from academia, science and industry the opportunity to work with on some of the ...

BAE Systems to provide transparency and trust in machine learning

Homeland July 16, 2020

BAE Systems recently delivered software to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a contract under the agency’s Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program. The delivery of the MindfuL software is the first milestone in the program to improve the transparency of machine learning systems. Transitioning artificial intelligence-based systems from ...

Government launches artificial intelligence and data science conversion courses

Homeland June 15, 2020

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced graduates will have the opportunity to apply for a place on new artificial intelligence (AI) and data science masters courses starting in autumn 2020. The move will enable 2,500 people to develop new digital skills or retrain to help find new employment in the UK’s cutting-edge ...

Patriot One collaborates with AWS and Vancouver Hospital on Covid-19 project

Homeland June 1, 2020

Patriot One Technologies wholly-owned subsidiary Xtract Technologies (“Xtract AI”) is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and SapienML among others in the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to help radiologists identify the increased risk of the COVID-19 virus. The project ...