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• Study: Facial recognition AI's alright, if you're cisgender and white

  I'm a cisgender white male. I can unlock my phone, sign into my bank account, and breeze through border patrol check points ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Autonomous 'Mayflower' to sail across the Atlantic 400 years after the original

  The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 carrying approximately 130 Pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean to The New World. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How AI could help dementia patients live more independently

  You might already have what’s often called a “smart home,” with your lights or music connected to voice-controlled technology ...

  • The Conversation

• 'The world’s most powerful supercomputer' will realize the full potential of AI

  The US Department of Energy has announced it's setting aside $600 million to build the world's fastest supercomputer called ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Listen to this AI spit out brutal death metal non-stop

  CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski turn to AI and neural network models for music creation, and have launched a YouTube channel that ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Why Facebook's AI guru isn't scared of killer robots

  “But until we have a hint of a beginning of a design, with some visible path towards autonomous AI systems with non-trivial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Watch this AI cop car fight an AI Jeep

  A machine learning developer named Sebastian Schuchmann recently developed a pair of neural networks. At first, they were ...

  • Tristan Greene

• UK passport program uses AI to create a virtual speed-line for white people

  The lighter your skin, the better AI-powered facial recognition systems work for you. The UK Home Office knows this, because ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI is now being used to shortlist job applicants in the UK — let's hope it's not racist

  AI-based video interviewing software such as those made by HireVue are being used by companies for the first time in job ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• California makes deepfakes illegal to curb revenge porn and doctored political videos

  To combat deepfakes, California passed two bills making it illegal to post any manipulated videos of political figures with ...

  • Cara Curtis

• The ethics of deepfakes aren't always black and white

  Chances are if you’ve seen a deepfake, such as this now infamous video of Obama ‘speaking’ Comedian Jordan Peele’s ...

  • Henry Ajder

• Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technology

  The short film "Slaughterbots" depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for ...

  • The Conversation

• How an AI trained to read scientific papers could predict future discoveries

  “Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing almost 70 years ...

  • The Conversation

• Good luck trying to crash this AI-powered smart drone

  Skydio today announced the the “Skydio 2” smart drone. It's a feature-packed 'flying film crew' capable of navigating ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Reddit and Gab's most toxic communities inadvertently train AI to combat hate speech

  A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI reads privacy policies so you don't have to — and it's actually pretty good

  Guard is an AI that reads privacy policies and uncovers their hidden dangers — but you still might want to do your own ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

  Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge.

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google’s Parrotron AI helps people with speech impediments talk freely

  Google's AI division has developed new speech-to-text software for people with verbal impairments which reduces word error ...

  • Mix

• Fraudsters deepfake CEO's voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000

  Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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

• 6 futuristic jobs that will soon exist in the financial industry

  AI and machine learning are entering the scene and causing great disruption in what used to be one of the most stable career ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Chinese face-swapping app goes viral, invites criticism over privacy clause

  Last week, a Chinese social app developer named Momo introduced a face-swapping app called Zao. The app, which lets you overlay ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 will reportedly go on sale for $3,500 next month (Update: later this year)

  Update (30/08/2019): A Mircosoft spokesperson said in a statement the company plans to ship the HoloLens 2 by the end of ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This app uses AI to add a Pixel-style night photography mode to your iPhone

  In the past couple of years, every major Android phone has had a night mode feature. While we might see Apple bring a night mode to its iPhones this year, it might be dependant on hardware. But an app called NeuralCam is trying to bring this feature to owners of current-gen and older ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • 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

• OnePlus will spend $138M on its new software R&D center in India over 3 years

  OnePlus today inaugurated its first Research & Development center in India, which will initially focus on software features ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague

  The age of man has ended: my new colleague is a robot writer.

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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

• Skills every ambitious tech professional will need in 2020

  Tech industry employment is a seller’s market firmly on the side of top talent, but competition for the best jobs remains ...

  • Anna Johansson

• 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

• NotJordanPeterson lets you generate uncannily realistic Jordan Peterson sound bites

  NotJordanPeterson is a mind-boggling voice AI that lets you say anything you'd like in the voice of Canadian psychologist ...

  • Mix

• Implanting AI chips in your mind could cause you to lose yourself, says scientist

  AI-based enhancements could be used to supplement neural activity, but if theyreplace normal functioning neural tissue, this ...

  • Cara Curtis

• This startup's 'AI' to build your apps is just a bunch of human devs

  AI is one of the most common buzzwords of the current startup generation. Companies often claim to have revolutionary AI ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Humans have been listening to our 'AI-transcribed' conversations for over a decade

  This ain't new. AI is a con job.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The android Turing Test can tell us whether a robot is effectively a person

  Alan Turing was recently announced as the face of the new £50 note for his code breaking contributions in World War II and ...

  • The Conversation

• How AI, blockchain, and wearables are changing the face of healthcare

  Several major classes of technology stand a good chance of changing healthcare as we know it. Home healthcare, in particular, ...

  • Nathan Sykes

• Here’s how researchers are making machine learning more efficient and affordable for everyone

  The research and development of neural networks is flourishing thanks to recent advancements in computational power, the ...

  • Binary District Journal

• I let Izotope's AI handle the mixing in my recording studio and now I'm on the machines' side

  Izotope's Neutron 3 Advanced audio software is an AI-powered mixing assistant you inject into your favorite DAW. It uses ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie

  The machine learning models that can detect our face and movements are now part of our daily lives with smartphone features ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 most feared, revered and hated buzzwords of the tech industry. I was reminded of this fact earlier this week, when I stumbled on an interesting Medium post ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Watch Samsung's AI render photorealistic scenes from video

  A trio of Samsung AI researchers recently developed a neural network capable of rendering photorealistic graphical scenes ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 them, the more difficult they seem. In 1956, scientists John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky proposed that a “2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence” ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This AI tool is smart enough to spot AI-generated articles and tweets

  Researchers from Harvard University and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created a new tool that aims to detect whether a specific ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Listen to this AI chat up a frustrated telemarketer for 15 minutes

  Telemarketers are the bane of our existence. With the rise of robocalls and automated bots meant to call hundreds of numbers ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook releases AI-powered tools to map the world

  Facebook today released a bunch of machine learning-powered tools to help create maps of the world. The company's tools, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why US public schools' creepy use of surveillance AI should frighten you

  Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent ...

  • Tristan Greene

• TikTok's parent company appears to have acquired AI music startup Jukedeck

  TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, appears to have acquired a startup that makes AI-generated music called Jukebox, an ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Microsoft sinks $1B into OpenAI to build 'supercomputer AI' for Azure

  Microsoft has invested $1 billion in Elon Musk-founded company OpenAI in an effort build supercomputer AI technologies for ...

  • Mix

• This site turns your selfies into Renaissance portraits with AI

  First came Instagram filters. Then came the Snapchat masks. Now AI renders are the latest way of using technology to change ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with it

  You're outta here! Professional baseball's first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn't take long ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI fails to recognize these nature images 98% of the time

  You can't fool all the people all the time, but a new dataset of untouched nature photos seems to confuse state-of-the-art ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI magically removes moving objects from videos

  Researchers used AI to build software that lets you effortlessly remove moving objects from video – just like Adobe's After ...

  • Mix

• Why empathy won’t get automated anytime soon

  Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to put us all out of a job or create more jobs. Either way, tech education is ...

  • Qamar Zaman

• Elon Musk's Neuralink wants you to type on your iPhone using your brain

  One of the first applications that Neuralink has envisioned for its brain-computer interface is a way to let people control ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• There’s a secret hidden inside the binary code on Alan Turing’s new £50 note

  The Bank of England slipped a hidden binary code in the design of the new £50 bill which features computer pioneer Alan ...

  • Mix

• To prepare today's workforce for AI, they must understand it's not a threat

  All entrepreneurs and business leaders talk about: What does a future with AI look like? What are the gains that AI can make ...

  • Alex Adamopoulos

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Nations must double down on AI R&D — or risk falling behind

  There’s a clear comparison between the space race of the 1960s and the present-day surge in national AI development.

  • Alex Bates

• Steam sequesters strange AI experiments into a new 'Lab'

  Steam bounced back from a rather confusing game sale by starting its own mad science space to play with AI and machine learning ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Fears of AI-powered hacking are misplaced as criminals are doing fine without it

  AI is captivating tech news audiences. But, growing expectations for AI’s impact on legitimate business have spawned a ...

  • Eric Murphy

• Hey look, AI ruined Garfield

  AI can do a lot of things — it fuels our voice assistants, understands pizza, and might even steal our jobs! And you ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities

  Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform - but it remains to be seen how ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives

  Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A beginner's guide to AI: Supervised and unsupervised learning

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• There's now an AI to prevent cats from bringing dead animals into your house

  I came across this fascinating model creator by an engineer named Ben Hamm that stopped his cat from bringing dead preys ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Humans and AI will work better when they start learning from each other

  In the age of big data and breathtaking advances of artificial intelligence, social infrastructure promotes digital engagement ...

  • Zona Kostic

• IBM's Call for Code Starter Kits are a perfect intro to coding and AI

  IBM recently debuted technology Starter Kits to aid those joining the company's Call for Code challenge. Anyone interested ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why Google Duplex might make my design job redundant

  A year ago, Google blew the world away with Duplex, an AI assistant that can make phone calls for you. The demo went viral ...

  • Tony Aube

• This AI is so goddamn smart, it can name other AIs

  But we have to admit, these models don't have sassy names. So, research scientist Janelle Shane has developed a neural ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Virginia outlaws deepfakes in its efforts to curb revenge porn

  To combat "deepfakes," Virginia just became one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties on the distribution ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Tacoma convenience store's facial recognition AI is a racist nightmare

  A convenience store in Tacoma has installed a facial recognition security system to deny customers entry unless they're approved ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This new photo AI lets you add, delete, and edit objects with one click

  But this new AI made by the researchers from MIT and IBM lets you add, edit, or remove an object just with a click.

  • Ivan Mehta

• Zuckerberg isn't ready for deepfakes

  Faced with a potential crisis, the magnitude of which the world has never seen, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to slow down. Crises, however, wait for no one. And Facebook’s latest problem, that of altered or faked video, brings with it the democracy destroying power ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Deepnudes developer shuts it down, but the damage is done

  There's no positive use case for developing an app with the sole purpose of using AI to predict what a clothed woman, in an image, would look like nude – full stop. Developing such an app, as did the person(s) responsible for Deepnudes, is an act of hate and an attack on women. At ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The first AI capable of simulating the universe works so well it's scary

  A team of researchers recently pioneered the world's first AI universe simulator. It's fast; it's accurate; and its creators ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site

  The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Hackers are turning our AI security systems against us — but they can be stopped

  With the use of AI growing in almost all areas of business and industry, we have a new problem to worry about – the “hijacking” ...

  • Isaac Ben-Israel

• MIT built a neural network to understand pizza

  A group of MIT researchers recently developed an AI model that takes a list of instructions and generates a finished product. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• MIT researchers taught robots to link senses like sight and touch

  MIT researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a predictive AI that allows ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The unforeseen trouble AI is now causing

  AI has come a long way in recent years — but as many who work with this technology can attest, it is still prone to surprising ...

  • Jordan French

• AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon

  Assigning blame can often be a complex task. A person’s actions, intentions, and state of mind all come into consideration ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Breakthrough research demonstrates AI can predict a psychotic break

  A trio of researchers have developed an experimental machine learning method that allows AI to listen for the early whispers ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Big tech's AI runs on datasets labeled by marginalized people

  Capitalism has a nasty habit of anchoring those beholden to it in an equilibrium where both the very poor and the very wealthy ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 5 of the smartest people in AI teamed up to make awesome robots

  An all-star team consisting of five of the brightest minds in AI today revealed the launch of Robust.AI, a new startup devoted ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed

  Startup Resume Worded is an AI-powered platform that provides ‘tailored feedback’ on your resume and LinkedIn profile. ...

  • Gwen van der Zwan

• Stanford's new AI can help doctors spot brain aneurysms

  Stanford researchers have developed a new AI tool that makes use of deep learning model called HeadXNet todetect brain aneurysms. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Developers: Meet your new AI intern

  Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

  • Ian Huston

• This feminist chatbot challenges AI bias in voice assistants

  Our future will be drived by AI so it's in everyone's interest to make sure it's not built on biases. AI chatbots are characterized ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Here's what the Vatican, US Evangelicals, and Satanists say about AI

  The religious have been contemplating the existential threat of artificial intelligence for millennia. Long before Alexa ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to prevent an AI-induced mid-career crisis

  At this point, it feels like I’ve heard countless stories about workers who are restless about the effects that AI will ...

  • Ed Sappin

• Zalando's Director of Engineering on AI and the future of fashion

  Last week's TNW Conference featured an amazing lineup of speakers, all sharing their unique knowledge and insights into ...

  • Ailsa Sherrington

• This AI-powered bot is learning how to tweet like Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

  Meet Vitalik Boterin, a new form of artificial intelligence that mimics Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with alarming ...

  • David Canellis

• Research indicates the only defense against killer AI is not developing it

  A recent analysis on the future of warfare indicates that countries that continue to develop AI for military use risk losing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to remove hiring bias through gamification

  Gamification is getting ready to save us from that awkward pause after a recruiter sits back and says, “So tell me about ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Hyperdimensional computing theory could lead to AI with memories and reflexes

  A team of scientists from the University of Maryland recently came up with a take on the hyperdimensional computing theory ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Microsoft's AI hallucinates unique whisky flavors

  When whisky is made in Scotland it's called scotch. When it's made in Kentucky it's called whiskey – the Irish also add ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines now

  Journalism is hard. Hours of research and writing culminate with publishing a piece with little more than blind faith that ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game

  Since the 80s, fighting games have been a raucous good time, a way to blow off some steam while digitally beating an AI opponent ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important

  Google and Microsoft have designed a variety of assistive tools and services that allows differently abled people lead a ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google's new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice

  Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Grand theft consciousness: How quantum algorithms will backdoor human-level AI

  The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as the legend goes, was invented when two oblivious young people walking around eating boring ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to use AI to redefine the way we create art

  The Mill's Rama Allen explains how we can leverage artificial intelligence to turn machines from tools into creative partners. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• AI avatars could be the next generation's favorite entertainers

  Media houses and companies are already looking towards the next solution for producing content to keep up with the trend: ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The Mill's Rama Allen is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!

  Rama Allen, Executive Creative Director at London-based VFX and creative studio The Mill, is on stage next at TNW2019 with ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• These idiots shot a porno in an Autopilot-enabled Tesla and Elon Musk deserves some blame

  Taylor Jackson is a pioneer, of sorts. The adult actress, to our knowledge, is the first to shoot a pornographic scene in ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Who are the creators of AI-generated art — programmers or machines?

  The Art of Tech track at #TNW2019 will explore whether computer algorithms can truly create art, and how AI has been affecting ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI

  A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• How today's AI can solve most of our traffic problems

  While driverless cars and flying taxis hold the far-future promise of alleviating traffic congestion, today's problems require ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying

  Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• AI is already changing how cancer is diagnosed

  We take a look at how artificial intelligence is impacting the ways in which cancer is diagnosed, and treated.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’

  Cross-border payments, tokenization, and some smart contract stuff. These are blockchain's potential use-cases, according ...

  • David Canellis

• How AI can help close the gender pay gap and eliminate bias

  We’ve learned how to build self-driving cars and smartphones but somehow still didn't figure out how to pay men and women ...

  • Andrea Hak

• AI won’t destroy us, it’ll make us smarter

  A number of academics and tech entrepreneurs agree: computer intelligence will one day meet and exceed human intelligence. ...

  • Alex Bates

• Here's what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)

  In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 'You Can't Take My Door' is both country music and AI's greatest achievement

  We know there's no justice in the world because the Country Music Awards, held earlier this month, didn't issue the evening's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Deep learning can help us eradicate suicide – but only if we let it

  Humanity's mental health crisis has reached pandemic proportions. Bluntly put: we don't seem capable of solving the problem ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Women in AI need better allies. Here’s how we can all help

  Lin Classon, Director of Public Cloud Product at managed cloud provider Ensono and former Googler, has spent her entire career ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Emotionally intelligent AI will respond to how you feel

  Artificial intelligence offers us an opportunity to amplify service and the integration of technology in everyday lives many ...

  • Alex Potamianos

• IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville

  One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Autumn is coming: Expert says hype cycle will give way to 'rich harvest' of useful AI

  Winter isn't coming. At least not for the world of artificial intelligence. Jeff Bigham, program director of the Human-computer ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Dota 2 players can sign up to compete against OpenAI’s champion-crushing bots this week

  OpenAI has been training its bots to learn to play Dota 2 for years. It's gotten awfully good at it, and you can now test ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• AI rejects conservative human views on furniture, designs wacky chair

  If you're lucky enough to be in Italy for Milan Design Week this year, do yourself a favor and check out the world's first ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Brands know they need to personalize — but many haven’t figured out how

  These days, everybody seems to be jumping on the personalization bandwagon, which is great, but I've noticed that brands ...

  • Drew Burns

• Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening

  Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Google takes a break from being evil to announce AI Platform

  Weather alert: be on the lookout for flying pigs. Google's new AI Platform looks to make good on the company's promise to ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Meet the nonprofit that’s already fighting for the rights of sentient robots

  Movies like Blade Runner and other science fiction tend to depict robots as self-aware machines, capable of making their ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Amazon's plan to rival Apple AirPods is about more than selling you earphones

  Bloomberg reports that Amazon is working on wireless earphones, similar to Apple's AirPods - but with support for the Alexa ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook's AI prevents deceased users' profiles from popping up in your suggestions

  It's hard to cope with the loss of a loved one, and it's harder when their profile pops up on Facebook as a suggestion, as ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Ian Goodfellow's hiring hints at what Apple's next 'one more thing' could be

  Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Researchers developed algorithms that mimic the human brain (and the results don't suck)

  Researchers are kicking it old school with new biologically-feasible algorithms that appear to be able to hold their own ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Tech companies still care more about AI and IoT than blockchain

  Blockchain might be the hot buzzword of the moment, but according to new research, it's being bested by the Internet-of-Things ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• How AI will save us from the mess of big data

  We are drowning in data that’s supposed to help us. The big data revolution has come from inexpensive data storage and ...

  • Elad Walach

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This company changes the DNA of investing — through machine learning

  While the largest financial institutions in the world are using machine learning to create advanced investment practices, ...

  • eToro

• The Slack AI assistant automating creative tasks and driving data-driven decision making

  As Adobe revea Project Expert Assist, audiences ponder if an AI assistant become a virtual bridge between the company's dataset ...

  • Neil C. Hughes

• AIs are being trained on racist data – and it’s starting to show

  Machine learning algorithms process vast quantities of data and spot correlations, trends and anomalies, at levels far beyond ...

  • Binary District Journal

• AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls

  Your first reaction is probably no, but you should reconsider, and here’s why. 911 call centers are overwhelmed and have ...

  • Nathaniel Gates

• Nvidia's new $99 pocket-sized AI computer is designed for DIY projects

  Nvidia has just released a $99 pocket-sized computer named the Jetson Nano, targeted towards “embedded designers, researchers, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• What can psychopaths teach us about AI?

  What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI can help fight climate change by optimizing energy efficiency

  Henrik Brink of Ento Labs discusses AI's role in fighting climate change and why better data is essential for the future. ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing

  Meetup Music (or 音遇) is a Chinese, turn-based singing game that has been lighting-up the country's app stores. We've ...

  • Callum Booth

• The US Army wants us to pretend autonomous tanks aren't killer robots

  Killer robots? Are you going to throw that in the Army's face everytime you have an argument? You're being irrational. Look, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Deepmind teaches AI to follow navigational directions like humans

  Deepmind paves the way for a better driverless car experience. Because, what good are taxis if you have to be sober enough ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?

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