Ben Dickson

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• Here’s how you make your Google Docs secure

  Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other ...

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• This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really 'learning' science?

  Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that ...

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• 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 ...

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• Hype is killing AI – here’s how we can stop it

  Mystified and vilified at the same time. That’s how I would currently describe “artificial intelligence,” one of the ...

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• We might never achieve general AIs — but it's important that we try

  There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to ...

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• Why Alexa and Siri won't function as robot helpers

  “Alexa, are you ready to have a body?” Steady advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have ...

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• Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived

  For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...

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• 5 ways AI is revolutionizing the world of finance

  There are plenty of reasons to believe artificial intelligence will spur the next revolution in the way we handle wealth ...

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• Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

  In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...

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• No, viewing publicly shared Google Docs don't reveal your identity

  Every day, millions of people use Google Docs to share and collaborate on documents. And when it comes to working on documents ...

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• 5 European companies that are (really) advancing AI

  There’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending ...

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• Why tech giants are interested in regulating facial recognition

  Last week, Amazon made the unexpected move of calling for regulation on facial recognition. In a blog post published on ...

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