The team wanted to see just how quickly and easily an artificial intelligence algorithm could be abused, if it were set on a negative, rather than positive task.
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claims that it may be that today s large neural networks are slightly conscious, but didn t explain exactly what this means or which network achieved this.
Data from 15,300 patients in the US was used to train the AI by researchers from the University of Exeter, teaching it who would and wouldn t go on to develop dementia.
London-based Yoti s Age Estimation system - which may well soon be rolled out across social media - can tell how old users between 6-18 are to a 1.5-year margin of error.