Artificial Intelligence


Finance

Future of Life Institute to Launch Vitalik Buterin Fellowships Centered on AI Safety Research

The institute studies ways artificial intelligence can help mankind.

Vitalik Buterin on stage at RadicalXchange 2019. (Credit: Christine Kim/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Meets AI: Fetch.ai Launches ‘Intelligent Automation’ for Uniswap V2 and PancakeSwap

Users will be able to create up to five “DeFi Agents” with stop-loss triggers.

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Marchés

Nokia Launches Blockchain-Powered Marketplace for Data Trading

The marketplace is aimed at providing enterprises and communication service providers access to trusted datasets.

Nokia

Marchés

Fetch.ai Nabs $5M in Institutional Investment; Fireblocks to Add Support for FET Token

The funding will be used to build out the machine-learning platform's existing and future applications.

Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch

Marchés

Capital One Files Patent for AI That Would Slice, Dice Social Media to Find Crypto Trading Picks

“It would be impossible for human traders to track” crypto's 24/7 informational onslaught on their own, Capital One said.

"Unlike many other markets, cryptocurrencies trade 24/7, thereby requiring traders to make decisions at all times throughout the day," Capital One wrote in its filing. (Shutterstock)

Technologies

Crypto Needn't Fear GPT-3. It Should Embrace It

Rather than being scared of the GPT-3 language processor, the crypto community should harness its advancements in deep learning.

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Marchés

Blockchain Bites: PayPal, Mastercard Inch Closer to Crypto

Also, a longer look at crypto's reaction to GPT-3, "the biggest thing since bitcoin."

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Marchés

Capital One Patents AI Fact-Checker to Make Crypto Trading Safer

Capital One believes its patented artificial intelligence system can better assess whether crypto-related news and data are more reliable than humans for tradings, according to its patent filing.

Because crypto trades 24/7 and information can be posted anywhere – including Twitter or blog posts – it can be difficult for traders to keep up, a Capital One Services patent says. (Jer123 / Shutterstock)

Technologies

Spanish Researchers Working to Curb Coronavirus Spread With Blockchain App

As well as helping predict the spread of COVID-19, the app could act as a digital version of government certificates permitting citizens to go to work or the store.

Credit: Shutterstock/DimaBerlin

Technologies

Fake News on Steroids: Deepfakes Are Coming – Are World Leaders Prepared?

What 2018 and 2019 were to blockchain and cryptocurrencies on the WEF stage (met with a healthy mix of intrigue and skepticism), 2020 will be to synthetic media, also known by the ominous-sounding euphemism “deepfakes.”

Davos 2019 image via Aaron Stanley for CoinDesk