All stories by Tristan
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Stanford team behind BS gaydar AI says facial recognition can expose political orientation
Stanford researcher Michael Kosinski, the PhD behind the infamous “Gaydar” AI, is back with another phrenology-adjacent (his team swears it's not phrenology) bit of pseudo-scientific ridiculousness. This time, they've published a paper indicating that a simple facial recognition ...
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Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms
Everyone's always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn't use a five or six month break after 2020 before we commit to an entire new calendar year? It's not you 2021; it's ...
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Google's new trillion-parameter AI language model is almost 6 times bigger than GPT-3
A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as far as we're aware, is OpenAI's GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters. Background: ...
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Games to play on date night: Rule the galaxy together in Stellaris
Games to play on date night is a series that focuses on finding the best video games for small groups to play together. The ...
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Hundreds sign letter demanding answers after GitHub fires Jewish employee for calling insurrectionists Nazis
GitHub allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying “there are Nazis about” in reaction to the insurrectionist occupation ...
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Trump admin launches National AI Initiative Office
The White House today announced the launch of its National AI Initiative Office, marking what should be President Trump's ...
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The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system
The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, the US Army's corporate research department, last week published a pre-print paper documenting the development of an image database for training AI to perform ...
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Here's why the US State Department website says Donald Trump's 'term ended' on 11 January
In yet another apparent case of giving (perhaps) too much power to a single person, an unnamed US State Department employee ...
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Scientists use supercomputers and AI to determine how good (or deadly) your street drugs are
A team of researchers from the University of Victoria have developed an AI system capable of determining the expected chemical makeup of drugs. While it involves supercomputers and a robust cocktail of cloud-based machine learning technologies, the ultimate goal is to make it dead-simple ...
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Here's what happened in the world of artificial intelligence in 2020
The year 2020 was long and treacherous, but the biggest bright spot for me was the official launch of Neural. That's our AI sub-brand here at TNW and the section you're reading this article in. More specifically, Neural is me (Tristan Greene), Thomas Macaulay, Ivan Mehta, and the ...
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Neural's AI predictions for 2021
It's that time of year again! We're continuing our long-running tradition of publishing a list of predictions from AI experts who know what's happening on the ground, in the research labs, and at the boardroom tables. Without further ado, let's dive in and see what the pros think ...
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Adios pandemic pals
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
