Shocking and unacceptable: Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said that the Greek Armed Forces will train children on the autism spectrum in skills suitable for military defense, such as image recognition required in AI systems and drones with the aim to identify targets. Dendias’ “vision” to equip children with autism to …
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Google extends the fire detection tool to Greece
With the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Google is providing detailed tracking of fire boundaries in Search and Maps, as well as through location-based push notifications. According to a Google update, the specific tool is expanding to 15 more countries across Europe and Africa, including Greece. The countries are: Andorra, …
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AI robot Sophia tours Athens, dressed in ancient Greek fashion
Sophia, the globally renowned humanoid AI robot, recently toured Athens and was captured in a photograph against the backdrop of the Acropolis. To add the icing on top of AI kitsch, robot Sophia was dressed in ancient Greek gown including a warm wool coat against the winter chills and wore …
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AI features creepy little monsters on Greece’s National Day parade
A real cringe child leads the students’ parade on Greece’s National Day on October 28. The boy has a deformed face and fingers and is holding a fake Greek flag on a bent pole.A bad joke combining Greece’s National Day and American Halloween? Or just a reckless product created by …
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Acropolis “melted” in the heatwave like strawberry ice cream
Athens Surreal captured the “impacts” of the heatwave in the Acropolis and other archaeological sites in an imaginative way. The “impacts” have been created with the help of artificial intelligence and have been posted on Instagram. In the pictures published by Athens Surreal, the Parthenon can be seen melting …
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AI recruited in effort to prevent forest fires
Artificial intelligence is being deployed in the battle for the prevention and management of forest fires through innovative programs developed and coordinated by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA). Forest fire risk is being assessed through the Deep Cube and SeasFire programs, which started in January 2021 and March 2022 …
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Controversial AI “lie detector” to be used at borders of Greece, Hungary and Latvia
A controversial system of Artificial Intelligence powered “lie detector” will be used at some borders in Greece, Hungary and Latvia to identify illegal migrants. The system sponsored by the European Commission is supposed to identify illegal migrants by analyzing their micro-expressions. The project that is to be used initially for …
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AI: European governments return nearly 10,000 Afghans to risk of death and torture
European governments have put thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to a country where they are at serious risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today in a new report. In their determination to increase the number of deportations, European …
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AI “Greek authorities cannot Photoshop their problems away
Amnesty International called on Greek authorities to investigate the accusations of torture of the four bank robbers also suspected of terrorism. Criticizing the publishing of the arrested’s pictures after being altered with digital means, AI stressed that problems of police abuse cannot be photoshopped away. “The Greek authorities cannot just Photoshop their problems …
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