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• Here’s what your phone can learn from the sound of your voice

  It can determine everything from who you are and where you come from, your current location, your gender and age, and what ...

  • The Conversation

• Yale teaches robots not to mess with people's stuff

  A group of computer scientists from Yale University created a machine learning paradigm for robots to understand the very ...

  • Tristan Greene

• DeepMind's AlphaZero AI is the new champion in chess, shogi, and Go

  DeepMind, has developed an AI named AlphaZero, which can learn and master games like chess, Go, and shogi just through basic ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google is fixing gender bias in its Translate service

  Google Translate has previously displayed signs of gender bias by assigning genders to certain adjectives and words describing occupations. Thankfully, the company’s rolling out an update to fix this. The company said that after the update, Google translate will provide both ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Don't believe the hype: There's nothing wrong with the space station robot

  Reports of belligerent AI with a mind of its own terrorizing astronauts aboard the International Space Station aren't exactly ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How Hive is raising a massive army to build AI-training datasets

  The thing people forget about artificial intelligence is that it’s exactly that -- artificial. Behind Facebook’s flesh-spotting algorithms and Mobileye’s pedestrian-avoiding machines are vast, complicated datasets, which are built and labeled by a vast human workforce. Have ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Waymo unveils first operating US driverless taxi service

  Waymo today unveiled "Waymo One," the company's first official commercial driverless car taxi service. It's currently only ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Experts warn AI could hardwire sexism into our future

  From Apple's Siri to Amazon's Alexa, voice recognition and AI assistants are typically female by default. Technology isn't ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Nvidia's new AI converts real-life videos into 3D renders

  We've often wondered while playing games or experiencing virtual reality: how can this be closer to the real world? Nvidia ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters

  Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...

  • Bryan Clark

• DeepMind's AI models new proteins for life-saving drugs in hours instead of years

  One of the best uses of AI is harnessing its power to tackle problems that require looking at large amounts of data. To that ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• Scientists work to accurately model human pain in robot brains

  Scientists have been figuratively poking robots with sticks for a few years now in hopes one of them will say "ouch" and ...

  • Tristan Greene