Ben Dickson

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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 how we handle money

  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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• Important security lessons learned from Apple's creepy FaceTime bug

  Earlier this month, I woke up to a disastrous security bug in Apple’s FaceTime that could let anyone easily eavesdrop on ...

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• 8 expert insights on what will happen with Bitcoin in 2019

  From the dramatic price plunge of Bitcoin and other digital assets to the regulatory crackdown on initial coin offerings ...

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• The challenges of moderating online content with deep learning

  Earlier in December, the internet was abuzz with news of Tumblr’s declaration that it would ban adult content on its platform ...

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• How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security

  In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to ...

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• The security threats of neural networks and deep learning algorithms

  This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. History ...

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• Don’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human language

  This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s ...

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