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Facebook is testing facial detection tech to keep bots at bay (update)
In order to keep its social network free of malicious bots, Facebook keeps trying out new tactics.In its latest test, it's ...
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Remember that scary AI text-generator that was too dangerous to release? It's out now
OpenAI today published the final model in its staged release for GPT-2, the spooky text generator the AI community's been talking about all year. GPT-2 uses machine learning to generate novel text based on a limited input. Basically, you can type a few sentences about anything ...
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Nvidia's new AI can make anyone move like Jagger with just a single photo
Nvidia's research team has just developed a new AI that can use an existing video and just one image to make the person in ...
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WTF: A California teacher wore blackface in class to rap about AI
A white California high school teacher showed up for classes in blackface last week as part of his Halloween costume. Social media footage of the teacher's costume, and what appears to be an impromptu performance of him rapping about artificial intelligence and technology, has since ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Misaligned objectives
Welcome to the first article in TNW's guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we'll examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts. You can't have a discussion about killer robots without invoking the Terminator movies. The franchise's ...
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Microsoft is testing a smartphone-based AI system for driving license tests in India
Microsoft has partnered with a Regional Transport Office in the northern city of Dehradun India to roll out a smartphone-based system ...
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MIT's new robot blocks self-assemble just like a transformer
When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can identify each other. These robots, called M-Blocks 2.0, have a barcode-like system on ...
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This site dares you to literally 'give a shit for science'
A pair of startups yesterday launched a campaign to convince people to send them pictures of their poop. We bet you didn't think you'd read that on TNW today, but it's for a decent reason. The images will purportedly be used to create a database to train AI on the subtleties of human ...
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Mozilla and Element AI want to build 'data trusts' in the artificial intelligence age
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based Element AI ...
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Amazon prepares to strike back after Microsoft wins $10B JEDI contract
Microsoft's been awarded the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a $10 billion planned project to create and maintain an AI-powered, cloud-based weapons platform for the Pentagon. The company's stocks hit a record intraday high on the back of ...
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NVIDIA's new AI lets you recreate your pet's smile on a lion
NVIDIA has created a new AI model — dubbed "FUNIT" — that can take in a picture of an animal and recreate its facial ...
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Facebook's new AI tweaks video so you can't be identified by face recognition tech
Facebook's face de-identification tech modifies your face slightly in video content to thwart facial recognition systems. ...
