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• Meet the finalists for IBM's $200K Call for Code competition

  The 2019 Call for Code challenge is coming to a close as partners IBM and David Clark Cause are set to announce the grand ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Another Tesla crashes due to misuse of Autopilot [Updated]

  The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today revealed that faulty software and human error were to blame for ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Elon Musk seemed unhinged 'debating' AI with Jack Ma

  Tech moguls Elon Musk and Jack Ma took the stage last week at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Opinion: Facebook's brain computer interface will be the instrument of society's collapse

  Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea? If you missed it: Facebook's building a brain computer interface (BCI). In the company's words, the gadget will be: A non-invasive, wearable device that lets people type by simply ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Developer who started a church to worship AI indicted for stealing AI

  Anthony Levandowski, a former employee at Google sister company Waymo, today was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets after he allegedly stole more than 14,000 sensitive documents that eventually ended up in Uber's clutches. You might recognize the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition

  Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Dear Netflix: Please ditch the algorithm and focus on human-curated 'Collections'

  Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks – that's humans if you insist on dumbing it down. Dubbed 'Collections,' the new system works like every collection of anything did before about 10 years ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How an AI in China helped nab a suspected murderer - with a face scan

  We've read plenty of stories of how AI can be horrible, but it can also be surprisingly useful. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, a person accused of murder was caught by an AI after he tried to scan his dead girlfriend's face to get a loan sanctioned. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This AI-powered text generator is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen — and you can try it

  OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Intel takes on Google and Amazon with 2 new AI-focused chips

  Intel has unveiled two new processors as part of its Nervana lineup with an aim to accelerate training and inferences drawn ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have

  Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Scientists invent robotic biker shorts that help you walk and run

  A team of researchers recently developed a robotic exosuit that makes it easier to walk or run long distances. It could imbue ...

  • Tristan Greene