Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that studies intelligent systems (i.e. software, computers, robots, etc.). Alternatively, it may be defined as "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".
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After firing Timnit Gebru, Google is now investigating another researcher in its ethical AI division
Google has suspended ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell's corporate account after she reportedly shared internal files with ...
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New self-supervised AI models scan X-rays to predict prognosis of COVID-19 patients
Researchers from Facebook and NYU Langone Health say their system forecasts COVID-19 mortality more accurately than radiologists. ...
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AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
Top football leagues and teams around the world have TV crews and streaming services at their disposal to broadcast matches ...
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This cute AI pet will fill the deep, dark void in your life
Moflin is an AI robot pet with "emotional capabilities that evolve like living animals."
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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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This app is helping reunite dogs with their owners using AI
It’s hard to imagine the stress that pet owners go through when their furry friends go missing. A US government survey ...
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Chatbot shut down after saying it 'really hates lesbians' and using racist slurs
A South Korean Facebook chatbot has been shut down after spewing hate speech about Black, lesbian, disabled, and trans people. ...
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Surveillance group exposes disturbing Huawei patent for AI-powered Uighur detection
Researchers from IPVM revealed that Huawei and a range of other Chinese tech firms have filed patents for spotting Uighurs ...
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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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How PR people should (not) pitch AI projects
These are exciting times for the artificial intelligence community. Interest in the field is growing at an accelerating pace, registration at academic and professional machine learning courses is soaring, attendance in AI conferences is at an all-time high, and AI algorithms have ...
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Containment algorithms won't stop super-intelligent AI, scientists warn
Computer scientists used theoretical calculations to show it would be impossible to build an algorithm that could control ...
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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 final manipulation of the country's gutted Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). According to an OSTP press release: The Office is charged with overseeing ...
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DeepMind’s mounting losses show why it’s hard to run an AI research lab
Last week, on the heels of DeepMind’s breakthrough in using artificial intelligence to predict protein folding came the ...
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Want to return your last online purchase? Amazon says don't bother
When you receive a faulty or unwanted item, Amazon usually asks you to initiate a return for a refund or replacement. However, ...
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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 ...
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AI devs claim they've created a robot that demonstrates a 'primitive form of empathy'
Columbia University researchers have developed a robot that displays a "glimmer of empathy" by visually predicting how another machine ...
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Sony's new AI-powered TVs 'mimic the human brain'
Sony has unveiled a new lineup of AI-powered Bravia TVs that use "cognitive intelligence" to replicate how the human eye ...
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Here's how OpenAI's magical DALL-E image generator works
It seems like every few months, someone publishes a machine learning paper or demo that makes my jaw drop. This month, it’s ...
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How startups are using XR to disrupt how we work, learn, and play
LUMO Labs' Andy Lurling shares 5 examples across industries of startups that are harnessing the power of XR to solve some ...
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Say hello to OpenAI's DALL-E, a GPT-3-powered bot that creates weird images from text
The 12 billion parameter version of OpenAI's GPT-3 text-generator explores the structure of language to generate original ...
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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 ...
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Watch: This AI is playing an infinite bass solo on YouTube
Music-hackers Dadabots produced the output with a recurrent neural network trained on a two-hour bass solo by Adam Neely. ...
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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 ...
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Psst, mobility nerds, here are the 4 books you HAVE to read
Are you interested in the future of mobility and the tech and infrastrucutre that's influencing it? Then you need to read ...
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Sony AI launches its Gastronomy Flagship Project to make the world a bit tastier
Sony AI recently announced its Gastronomy Flagship Project, an AI-powered initiative built on “enhancing the creativity ...
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Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit — it didn't end well
A GPT-3-powered bot has been caught posing as a human on Reddit after more than a week of rampant posting about some seriously ...
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Snowden warns: The surveillance states we're creating now will outlast the coronavirus
Governments around the world are using high-tech coronavirus surveillance measures to combat the outbreak. But are they worth ...
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New MIT algorithm automatically deciphers lost languages
An MIT CSAIL AI system that can automatically decipher extinct languages offers hope of preserving a wealth of historical ...
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Google Photos' new AI-powered feature turns your 2D snaps into cinematic 3D images
Google Photos is rolling out a "Cinematics photos" feature in Memories that gives your snaps a 3D makeover, as well as new ...
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Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news — what could go wrong?
Facebook has been trying to get a foothold in the news space for many years. Last year, the company launched a dedicated ...
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New AI Scrabble mod only allows words that don't exist
The BLABRECS system could help you defeat the expert Scrabble players in your family over the festive season.
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Famed footballer cuts ties with Huawei over AI 'Uighur alert'
France forward Antoine Griezmann has ended his sponsorship deal with Huawei after it reportedly tested facial recognition ...
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Backlash intensifies: Pichai's promises do little to quell outrage over Timnit Gebru's firing
Google's CEO has apologized for the fallout, but the star AI researcher's exit has deepened concerns about internal ethics ...
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Stripchat's AI-powered 'anal-ytics' helped it reach nearly 1B new users in 2020
Stripchat today released its end of the year data report for 2020 and good-golly is it packed full of more information than ...
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Why IBM's AI Fact Sheets should be the industry standard
Every once in awhile an idea comes along that's so good it makes you wonder why it took so long for someone to think of it. IBM's ...
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Former Salesforce science boss founds You.com to take on Google Search
A new challenger enters the arena! Richard Socher, the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, today dropped the figurative ...
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How banks use AI to catch criminals and detect bias
Imagine an algorithm that reviews thousands of financial transactions every second and flags the fraudulent ones. This is ...
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Iranian nuclear scientist allegedly assassinated via killer robot
A top nuclear scientist with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran's military services, was assassinated ...
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Study shows how AI exacerbates recruitment bias against women
An experimental hiring algorithm developed at Melbourne University reflected the gender biases of human recruiters.
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How AI-powered video compression could make an honest man out of Elon Musk
“LIDAR is a fool’s errand. Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed. Doomed! Expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s ...
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These new metrics help grade AI models' trustworthiness
Whether it’s diagnosing patients or driving cars, we want to know whether we can trust a person before assigning them a ...
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3 ways leaders should pursue breakthrough innovation during a crisis
To see a similar success story, you must emphasize transformation over restriction. You can do this by following this three-step ...
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How DeepMind’s protein-folding breakthrough could transform drug development
A DeepMind AI system that accurately predicted how proteins fold into shapes could drive a range of new scientific discoveries. ...
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Here’s what the future of search and navigation looks like, according to experts
For many of us, the portal to the rest of the internet begins with a search. Whether it’s a random trivia hunt or detailed ...
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Why AI is the future of home security
The future of home security is going to involve a lot of AI and cloud computing — in this piece we explain what you can ...
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Study: Security flaw could allow hackers to trick lab scientists into making viruses
Cyber-security researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev recently discovered a computer attack that could allow ...
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AI reveals vast racial inequities in NYC homeownership
SAS and the Center for NYC Neighborhoods analyzed housing data to uncover insights that could help design programs that ...
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Google's new AI tool turns your terrible drawings into hideous monsters
The Chimera Painter app uses GANs to convert sketches of animals into fantastical creatures.
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Nvidia teaches AI to create new version of Pac-Man just by watching gameplay
Nvidia researchers have used generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create a new version of Pac-Man without studying ...
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This AI turns your blurry photos into creepy HD faces
Duke University researchers have inventioned an AI tool that turns blurry photos into computer-generated HD faces. I tried ...
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This AI tool generates your creepy lookalikes to trick facial recognition
A free new tool called Anonymizer uses GANs to transform your profile photos into AI fakes.
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7 digital health trends that will dominate the globe in 2021
Digital health has the potential to vastly improve healthcare services, but up until recently, it hasn’t been much of a ...
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Researchers taught AI how to judge a video game by its cover
Have you ever seen the promo art or box cover for a video game and thought “what the hell is this even about?” Well, ...
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YouTube is testing AI-generated video chapters
The feature could save YouTube creators from having to manually add chapters to the descriptions of their videos.
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DoNotPay, the AI lawyer for your inbox, now lets you report businesses for tax fraud
Here's a cool one: DoNotPay, the legalese-trained email crawler that scours your inbox for ways to save you money (or earn ...
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Could AI analysis of social media posts help prevent violence?
In the summer of 2012, a devastating gun violence epidemic was sweeping through Chicago. / Violence scarred the city of ...
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Are you a poet? / Google's new AI will help / Rewrite your shit prose
The Verse by Verse app turns classic poets into AI muses.
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We should hold animals accountable for their crimes. Here's how AI can help
The setup's hilarious: Two park rangers hiding behind a tree pointing a camera at a bear in the distance so they can use ...
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This AI is unimpressed by Gillian Anderson's casting in The Crown
An AI scoring system designed by Largo Films has predicted which stars of The Crown will shine — and which will fade into ...
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TL;DR: This AI summarizes research papers so you don't have to
Reading scientific papers is a tough job. It might contain language and sections that you might not understand, and not all ...
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MIT study: The US increasingly has immigrants to thank for its algorithmic dominance
MIT CSAIL researchers analyzed the institutions and birth countries of the developers of the world's most fundamental algorithms. ...
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This AI jacked Eminem's flow to make a Zuckerberg diss track
Eminem has written plenty of diss tracks aimed at celebrities ranging from Donald Trump to Machine Gun Kelly. But what happens ...
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A beginner’s guide to ensemble learning
The principle of “the wisdom of the crowd” shows that a large group of people with average knowledge on a topic can provide ...
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Neural's guide to the glorious future of AI: Here's how machines become sentient
Welcome to Neural's guide to the glorious future of AI. What wonders will tomorrow's machines be capable of? How do we get ...
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AI helps create the Milky Way's family tree — tracking eons of galactic mergers
A team of astrophysicists has used computer simulations and an artificial neural network to identify the mergers that formed ...
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UK city launches 'smart junctions' that prioritize cyclists and pedestrians
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced the rollout of 20 ‘smart junctions’ across the city. They use sensors ...
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This AI tool traced the development of Pizzagate. Next up? QAnon
The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments ...
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Researchers developed 'explainable' AI to help diagnose and treat at-risk children
A pair of researchers from the Oak Ridge Laboratory have developed an “explainable” AI system designed to aid medical ...
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New EU-funded project will use AI to capture the key scents of historical Europe
The Odeuropa team will use AI to extract information about smells from historical documents and images — and then recreate ...
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AI discovered an old arthritis drug that can help elderly people survive COVID-19
A new study found a medication identified as a potential COVID-19 treatment reduced deaths by 71% in elderly patients with ...
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This open-source AI tool can make your video spectacular with sky replacement effects
Sky replacement tools are extremely popular in the current crop of photp-editing apps. Mobile apps such as Lighttricks' ...
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How to tell the difference between AI and BS
Artificial intelligence is as important as electricity, indoor plumbing, and the internet to modern society. ...
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We currently have no smart cities — by 2025 there’ll be 26
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Inside the world's first AI-powered satellite — and its fight against clouds
Intel, Ubotica, and the ESA recently launched the first AI-enabled satellite into Earth's orbit. The team told TNW about ...
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This AI-powered ‘electronic nose’ can sniff out rotten meat
Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a barcode-scanning AI app that accurately assesses the freshness of meat.
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Meet the photography scaleup helping brands go digital
BOOM Image Studio aims to be the Amazon of commercial photography — by attempting to develop the world’s most efficient ...
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Neural's market outlook for artificial intelligence in 2021 and beyond
The year is coming to a close and it's safe to say Elon Musk's prediction that his company would field one million “robotaxis” ...
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10 books that’ll help you become a better software engineer
Today I’m answering one of your questions: what are the books I’d recommend to learn more about programming? Before jumping ...
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How to build an AI stylist inspired by outfits on Instagram
Last year, in a universe where it still made sense to owns pants, I decided to hire a personal stylist. In our first appointment, ...
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How to make AI work for your business
The news about artificial intelligence is mostly dominated by sensational stories such as the ominous threat of deepfakes, ...
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Meet the AI-generated bipartisan president of the US
A Dutch artist known as Most used AI to create a range of unifying political slogans and then fused them with a morph of ...
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MIT AI analysis of Reddit shows anxiety levels are sky-high since pandemic
The first wave of COVID-19 increased discussions about anxiety and suicide on Reddit, according to a new study by MIT and ...
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Here’s how AI is helping cities improve traffic management
This article was originally published by Federico Cheli on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and ...
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5 tech trends that will redefine finance in the next 5 years
As one of the most ancient tenets of human societies, money and finance have been constantly evolving with advances in technology ...
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How AI is helping Indian cotton farmers reduce pesticide use
There are more than 5.8 million cotton farmers in India according to the country's Textile Ministry. Every year, they face ...
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AI to help world's first removal of space debris
The European Space Agency will soon use deep learning algorithms to help clean up the junk orbiting earth.
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Google's new AI automatically turns webpages into videos
If you have a product webpage, you'd wish that you could create a handy video to show to clients with all the info. However, ...
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How Nvidia’s Maxine uses AI to improve video calls
One of the things that caught my eye at Nvidia’s flagship event, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), was Maxine, a platform ...
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Neuromorphic computing chip could 'smell' explosives, narcotics, and diseases
An emerging form of AI known as neuromorphic computing has been used to successfully detect scents emitted by explosives, ...
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Should a conscious robot get the same rights as a human?
In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Measure of a Man" Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is ...
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Facebook's chief AI scientist says GPT-3 is 'not very good' as a dialog system
A new study on GPT-3's potential uses in healthcare suggests some expectations for the model are wholly realistic.
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Institutional bias and lower acceptance rates for women: Inside the AI conference review process
With the past decade seeing renewed interest in artificial intelligence, research and publication in the field has grown ...
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What the hell is reinforcement learning and how does it work?
Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning. It enables an agent to learn through the consequences of actions ...
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Zombify your face for Halloween with this creepy AI app
Two new AI apps that transform faces into evil dolls and zombies have been released in time for Halloween.
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Microsoft unveils FREE app to create AI models without writing any code
Microsoft has released a public preview of an app called Lobe that lets people with no data science experience create AI ...
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New AI tool that detects star flares could help us find habitable planets
Scientists have developed a neural network that finds stellar flares, which can destroy the atmospheres of nearby planets. ...
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How to create an AI that chats like you on WhatsApp
The goal of this guide is to build a system capable of chatting like you, using your own WhatsApp and Telegram chats ...
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Why contact-tracing apps haven’t lived up to expectations
During the first wave of COVID-19, researchers at Oxford University built a computer model that suggested if 56% of the UK ...
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How corporations and SMBs can turn competition into collaboration
We can finally live out our Jetsons fantasies – almost. Pandemic permitting, in a few years we should be able to hire an ...
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This GPT-3-powered tool generates new ideas for your terrible blog
The Blog Idea Generator uses OpenAI's GPT-3 text generator to produce new ideas for content marketers and uninspired writers. ...
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What exactly is an algorithm and how does it work?
The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. ...
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Adobe’s new AI experiment syncs your dance moves perfectly to the beat
TikTok has made on-beat dances and movements mainstream. But what if you went offbeat or the video you recorded had some ...
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New AI-powered sensor measures starlight distortion to help discover new planets
The "photonic wavefront sensor" helps correct the distortion of starlight caused by observing planets through optical telescopes. ...
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How Photoshop's new Neural Filters harness AI to generate new pixels
Adobe has launched a new AI-powered workspace for Photoshop that applies a range of different effects and filters to photos ...
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Facebook’s new AI model translates 100 languages — without going through English first
Facebook has open-sourced the first AI model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without first translating ...
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Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d be having 15-hour workweeks by the end of the century. But by the time it ...
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Why training neural networks comes with a hefty price tag
In recent years, deep learning has proven to be an effective solution to many of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. ...
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Google Search is getting a new AI-powered spell checker
Google has announced a range of AI-powered enhancements to its search engine, including a new algorithm that improves spelling ...
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US Library of Congress launches AI tool that lets you search 16 million old newspaper pages for historical images
The AI lets you search through 16 million historical newspaper pages for images that help explain the stories of the past. ...
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What is machine learning data poisoning?
It’s not hard to tell that the image below shows three different things: a bird, a dog, and a horse. But to a machine ...
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How to build a machine learning model in 10 minutes
I like to divide my machine learning education into two eras: I spent the first era learning how to build models with ...
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This Philosopher AI has its own existential questions to answer
A new text-generating system called the Philosopher AI will answer your questions about the meaning of life — unless they're ...
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Alphabet X has built a ‘plant buggy’ — a cute AI farmer
The crop-inspecting robot is part of a new Alphabet X "computational agriculture" project called Mineral.
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Remote exam software is crashing when the stakes are the highest
Molly Savage never expected she’d be taking the Michigan state bar exam remotely after graduating this year from Wayne ...
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The future of AI depends on 9 companies — if they fail, we’re doomed
If artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, it probably won’t be through killer robots and the ...
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Study reveals big regional divides in views on AI risks
New research on opinions about using AI in decision-making suggests concerns are highest in Latin America and the Caribbean ...
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AI helps produce world's largest 3D map of the universe
Scientists at the University of Hawaii's Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) used AI to create a catalog of stars, galaxies, ...
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This AI lyrics generator strings your random words into songs
Could keyword2lyrics provide a new cure for songwriter's block?
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These AI-generated resumes will make your job search even more painful
A new website uses machine learning to produce fake resumes that could get you the job of your nightmares.
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Australia wants AI to handle divorces — here's why
An online app called Amica is now using artificial intelligence to help separating couples make parenting arrangements and ...
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Can AI develop a sense of right and wrong?
Can artificial intelligence learn the moral values of human societies? Can an AI system make decisions in situations where ...
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TIL: Dubai uses AI to plan its bus routes
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Moving past mobile — why innovation must happen beyond smartphones
TV screen, grocery store, or virtual party zone: these days, our smartphones are whatever we want them to be. Smartphone ...
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Why AI needs a physical body to emotionally connect with humans
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, ...
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How ‘less-than-one-shot learning’ could open up new venues for machine learning research
If I told you to imagine something between a horse and a bird—say, a flying horse—would you need to see a concrete example? ...
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Nvidia uses AI to make video calls way better
Nvidia today announced a video calls platform for developers that slashes bandwidth and offers gaze correction, super-resolution, ...
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Nvidia is building the UK's fastest supercomputer to use for AI research in healthcare
Nvidia says the Cambridge-1 will deliver 400 petaflops of AI performance, making it one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. ...
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A beginner's guide to the math that powers machine learning
How much math knowledge do you need for machine learning and deep learning? Some people say not much. Others say a lot. Both ...
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Test your Python skills with these 10 projects
Did you know Python is known as an all-rounder programming language? Yes, it is, though it shouldn’t be used on every ...
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Twitter analysis suggests late nights make Trump angrier — and hurt his reelection odds
Columbia University researchers found correlations between the timing of Trump's tweets and his mood and reelection odds ...
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Digital governance is the ‘new normal’ — here’s how we can keep it ethical
If the last decade has taught us anything about the digital world, it’s that progress and ethics are not inextricably linked. ...
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Google Photos' new AI-powered editor will retouch your images for you
In addition to the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G, Google is also rolling out a new editor for Google Photos that leverages AI to beautify ...
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Elon Musk put a computer interface in a pig's brain. Could future AI turn animals against us?
It's been a month since Elon Musk and Neuralink trotted out a cyborg pig to show off the company's progress toward a brain ...
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Dutch predictive policing tool 'designed to ethnically profile,' study finds
An Amnesty International investigation found that the predictive policing system deliberately targets Eastern Europeans.
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This AI advised me to read The Hunger Games to survive this 'cruel world'
The AI tool uses GPT-3 to recommend books based on your mood.
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Here’s what happened when neural networks took on the Game of Life
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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The promise of voice AI lies at work, not at home
The next frontier for voice AI lies beyond your doorstep. From education to workforce automation to retail, the scope for ...
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Flawed algorithm used to determine UK welfare payments is 'pushing people into poverty'
A design flaw in the algorithm that determines the welfare benefits received by people in the UK is causing hunger and debt, ...
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Trump's 2016 campaign targeted ads to deter 3.5M Black Americans from voting, leaks reveal
Team Trump reportedly worked with Cambridge Analytica to dissuade millions of Black voters by targeting them with anti-Hillary ...
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Our goal shouldn't be to build merely 'trustworthy' AI
Mariarosaria Taddeo, Deputy Director of the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab, explains why AI ethics must ...
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Amsterdam and Helsinki become first cities to launch AI registers explaining how they use algorithms
The AI registers track how the municipalities use algorithms in their public services.
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Honey traps and bribery: Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO slapped with 7-year directorship ban
A British government agency said Alexander Nix had allowed staff to offer clients an array of unethical services.
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Why AI writing assistants are the next generation of style guides
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. Style guides have a long ...
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GPT-3's bigotry is exactly why devs shouldn't use the internet to train AI
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” ...
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England and Wales finally get contact-tracing app after months of delays — bit shit, but it'll do
The revamped contact-tracing app looks a marked improvement on the government's previous efforts, but privacy and effectiveness ...
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C-list celebs slammed for promoting digital blackface app
The "stars" posted ads for an app called Gradient that uses AI to modify ethnicity in user photos.
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Facebook removes Chinese network of fake accounts that used AI-generated faces
The operation reportedly used AI-generated Facebook profile photos to spread government propaganda about Beijing's interests ...
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YouTube's new AI will block videos that are inappropriate for kids
YouTube will start using AI to automatically add age restrictions to videos "over the coming months," the company announced ...
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AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer parameters
AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator capable of ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots
Welcome to the fifth article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of the most popular doomsday ...
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Majority of Europeans would consider human augmentation, study finds
Almost two-thirds of Europeans would consider human augmentation, but the north is far more enthusiastic than the south, ...
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Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube's recommendation algorithm
A new browser add-on called RegretsReporter invites users to report dubious YouTube recommendations so Mozilla can investigate ...
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Trump accuses Twitter of promoting negative stories about him
Trump claims Twitter is tweaking the algorithms behind its trending topics to make him look bad. It's surely the only possible ...
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AI-powered ship sets sail for sea trials and environmental research missions
The AI vessel went seaborne on the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage to the New World.
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This AI spots local COVID-19 outbreaks before they've spun out of control
A new machine learning-based tool identifies potential COVID-19 outbreaks in different US counties by estimating how long ...
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Harvard researchers developed an AI to determine how medical treatments affect life spans
Harvard researchers say the AI accurately forecast the impact of life-extending treatment or diets on mice.
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Sony's new AI agent achieves superhuman Gran Turismo Sport scores
One of the best things about computers is that they can learn just as much from a simulation as they can from so-called 'real ...
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This COVID-19 newsletter was written by a human
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says
If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network ...
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Facebook algorithm 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content, study finds
Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a counter-extremist group, found Facebook’s algorithm recommends ...
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A realistic picture of how AI fits into today’s economy
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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COVID-19 made your data set worthless. Now what?
The COVID-19 pandemic has perplexed data scientists and creators of machine learning tools as the sudden and major change ...
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Nvidia confirms it's buying Arm for $40B to expand its AI efforts
Graphics hardware and AI giant Nvidia has confirmed its long-rumored acquisition of UK-based chip design firm Arm in a $40 ...
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A beginner's guide to AI: Separating the hype from the reality
An advanced artificial intelligence created by OpenAI, a company founded by genius billionaire Elon Musk, recently penned ...
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AI to take on human pilots in real-world fighter aircraft trials
The Pentagon will pit AI against human pilots in real fighter aircraft, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper revealed on Wednesday. ...
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This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?
Musiio, a startup that uses AI to scan, tag, and categorize music, has deployed its tools to craft the perfect TikTok hit. ...
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Portland becomes first US city to ban companies from using facial recognition in public places
Portland is the first city in the US to bar both businesses and public agencies from using facial recognition. Will the rest ...
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How programmers are using AI to make deepfakes — and even detect them
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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Scientists demonstrate first 'plug and play' brain prosthesis in a paralyzed person
The participant used the system to control a cursor on a screen using just their brain, and without requiring extensive daily ...
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IBM bets on AI and robotics to speed up drug discovery
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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Watch: This AI mashup of movie characters singing 'All Star' is the best DeepFake ever
Unpopular opinion: All Star, by Smash Mouth, is the greatest rock song ever created. Okay, that's a lie. But it does ...
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The Guardian's GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype
The Guardian today published an article purportedly written "entirely" by OpenAI's GPT-3. But the the newspaper's grand ...
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The fourth generation of AI is here, and it’s called 'Artificial Intuition'
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, but it’s not nearly as new as you ...
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Google blames faulty algorithm for blurring Hong Kong protest graffiti on Street View
Google blamed its automated systems for obfuscating a banned political slogan and a call for Xi Jinping's death on the Street ...
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Here are the biased algorithms the UK government uses to make high-level decisions
The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much ...
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This AI analyzes placentas to predict complications in the next pregnancy
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have used machine learning to analyze placenta samples for signs of health risks ...
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8 developer roles that are in high demand in healthcare
With the demand for tech skills continuously growing across the board, there’s no shortage of new domains where software ...
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Stop confusing facial recognition with facial authentication
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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This AI predicted who will play the next James Bond (Hint: Toss a coin to him)
AI software firm Largo predicted who will play the next Bond by forecasting which of the contenders could outperform Daniel ...
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Facebook unveils prototype AR glasses that give you 'auditory superpowers'
Facebook has produced a set of AR glasses that give users "perceptual superpowers" by amplifying what they want to hear ...
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NASA's impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies
NASA has developed a machine learning model that, in tests, predicted when a hurricane will intensify more accurately than ...
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OpenAI reveals the pricing plans for its API — and it ain't cheap
OpenAI has revealed the initial pricing plans for its API, which lets developers access the company's powerful GPT-3 language ...
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Why you shouldn't mistake AI for automation
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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Trump plans to collect DNA, eye scans, and voice prints from immigrants
The Trump administration's plans to expand the collection of biometric data from immigrants would let the government "surveil ...
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Transformative AI, no-code, or low-code? The best approaches to deploying AI in your business
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID
In a globalized world, we’ve become accustomed to doing business, buying products, and traveling across the globe at lightning ...
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Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface
Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music players and make ...
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A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can't imitate human writing
So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...
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Google says it's going to sell ethics advice to AI companies
Google's working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions. According to a ...
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New algorithm can identify misogyny on Twitter
Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have developed an algorithm that detects tweets ...
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This AI tool shows which politicians and issues are getting the most TV time
Stanford University researchers have created an AI-powered TV analyzer that shows you how much screen time different public ...
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AI Jesus will help you embrace the apocalypse
The AI spat out some baffling new verses after studying the King James Bible.
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This AI makes peanut butter and banana sandwiches that are fit for the King
Data scientist Ethan Rosenthal has developed an AI system that calculates the optimal arrangements of banana and bread.
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New microscopic robots could one day be injected into human bodies
Scientists from Cornell University made more than a million of the robots from four inches of silicon.
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YouTube removes record number of videos after increasing role of AI in content review
YouTube says it took down a record number of videos in the second quarter of this year due to an increased use of AI in ...
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Hey employers, forcing your machine learning hires to have fancy degrees is dumb
So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...
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Will the UK's housebuilding algorithm join the government's growing AI graveyard?
British councils have joined the immigration department and exam boards in ditching algorithms. The government's housebuilding ...
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This AI just found 50 new planets in a huge NASA dataset
An algorithm has confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world-first for machine learning in astronomy.
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Two left feet? Facebook’s new AI dance choreographer can teach you some brand new moves
Facebook's AI boffins have developed a new system that creates original dance routines for any music that you feed it.
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Practical Natural Language Processing: A must-read for anyone who wants to become seriously involved in NLP
So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...
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Why the nonprofit OpenAI made GPT-3 a commercial product
So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...
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Elon Musk may announce human trials at the Neuralink demo. Here's why that's awesome
I'm reticent to use the phrase “iPhone moment for brain surgery” in the first sentence here, but Elon Musk and the team ...
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5 esoteric science papers to take your mind off the global hellscape
Experiencing 2020 from the POV of a rational-minded person is exhausting and scary. It sometimes feels as though we've ended ...
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An AI just embarrassed the US Air Force in a virtual dogfight
The battle was the grand finale of DARPA's AlphaDogfight Trials, a series of virtual dogfights that sought to test how AI ...
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How Intel helped give the 'world's first' cyborg a voice
When Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with MND, he devised a plan to become a cyborg, through a combination of AI, robotics, ...
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Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared
Human-level performance. Human-level accuracy. Those are terms you hear a lot from companies developing artificial intelligence ...
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How will GPT-3 change our lives?
“GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It’s something else: a statistically abstracted representation ...
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How Intel's neuromorphic chip could make wheelchair-mounted robotic arms more accessible
Intel scientists are using neuromorphic computing to power a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm that helps patients with spinal ...
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New polymer coating could help brains merge with machines — cyborgs incoming?
Scientists have developed a new bio-synthetic coating for electronic components that could help merge AI with the human brain. ...
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The AI version of the Weeknd and I are now BFFs — deal with it
Spotify has created an AI-powered microsite that lets you hear the Weeknd's thoughts on your listening habits. I checked ...
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How IoT revolutionized medical care during the pandemic
Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented situation. It even gave birth ...
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Vroom vroom: AI reveals F1's fastest drivers of the past 40 years
F1 and AWS have used an algorithm to rank the fastest drivers of all time, but not everyone is convinced by the system's ...
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England ditches its shitty exam result algorithm after it penalized poorer students
English exam results will now be based on teacher predictions after the government scrapped a controversial algorithm that ...
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How Facebook's Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence
Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told TNW about the latest developments at FAIR, the social network's research lab. ...
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British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood
Lincolnshire police plan to test facial recognition and behavioral tech that infers people's moods and expressions by analyzing ...
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Google Sheets can improve your app with machine learning — here's how
In this post, I’ll show you how to use beginner-friendly ML tools – Semantic Reactor and TensorFlow.js – to build an ...
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This AI simulation of Roger Federer helps him overcome his Wimbledon SHAME
A new AI system generates stunningly realistic controllable graphics of Roger Federer and his tennis rivals to recreate classic ...
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How to protect AI systems against image-scaling attacks
We usually don’t expect the image of a teacup to turn into a cat when we zoom out. But in the world of artificial intelligence ...
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England's new contact-tracing app has a big distance problem
Trials of England's latest contact-tracing app begin today, but tests show that the system struggles to precisely measure ...
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Algorithm downgrades nearly 40% of English exam results, hitting poorer students hardest
An algorithm that determined A-level grades in England has downgraded 39% of predicted results -- with disadvantaged students ...
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GPT-3 writes climate change protest letters to Trump, Xi, and Putin
A new AI art project uses GPT-3 to generate epistles about climate change on behalf of planet Earth.
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A US Air Force pilot is taking on AI in a virtual dogfight — here’s how to watch it
An AI-controlled fighter jet will battle a US Air Force pilot in a simulated dogfight that's the final trial of DARPA's AlphaDogfight ...
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Researchers use AI to determine which face masks work best for COVID-19
A technique developed at Duke University measures which face masks best protect against COVID-19 by counting the droplets ...
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UK court rules police use of facial recognition was 'unlawful'
In a landmark decision, judges said South Wales Police's use of facial recognition breached human rights and data protection ...
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Facebook blames COVID-19 for reduced action on suicide, self-injury, and child exploitation content
Facebook says that COVID-19 has hindered its ability to remove posts about suicide, self-injury, and child nudity and ...
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Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G 'red-handed'
Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site, using Morse code to catch the ...
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COVID-19 canceled doctors' office visits — these startups are bringing the doctor to you
What do you do when you can’t go to the doctor’s office? As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people around the world ...
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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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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 ...
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What herd immunity looks like in a maximum security prison
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This startup is fighting air pollution with AI
This year’s Startup Games event, from Germany’s Digital Hub Initiative and hosted by TNW, welcomed ten of Germany’s ...
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Why 'human-like' is a low bar for most AI projects
Show me a human-like machine and I'll show you a faulty piece of tech. The AI market is expected to eclipse $300 billion ...
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Depictions of AI are overwhelmingly white -- and that's a serious problem
Cambridge University researchers warn portrayals of AI as white are erasing people of color from visions of the future and ...
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'World's first' AI-generated arts festival program opens this Friday
An AI system called ImprovBot has created a range of new shows for a virtual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn
Deepfake videos and audio are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University ...
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Roborock's S6 MaxV robot vacuum is too smart to do the dirty work
I haven't had to do much hoovering over the past three months — and I've got the Roborock S6 MaxV to thank for that. But ...
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How to name your baby using machine learning
When I was young, I always hated being named Dale. This is mostly because my primary image of what Dales looked like was ...
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This app uses AI to make your selfies look fabulously ridiculous
Artificial intelligence has emerged in the past decade as a bedrock technology. We use it for important endeavors such as ...
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Scientists use AI to predict what makes a successful relationship
A new AI study led by Western University uses machine learning to work out what makes a happy relationship.
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This AI turns your home videos into cute cartoons
Cartoonizer is based on a research paper by University of Tokyo researchers Xinrui Wang and Jinze Yu. It joins a growing ...
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This AI generates hilariously realistic startup acquisition announcements
The Acquisition Blog Post Generator leverages AI to create realistically sounding startup acquisition announcements — and ...
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This spooky deepfake AI mimics dozens of celebs and politicians
From Donald Trump and Barack Obama to John Oliver and Tupac, Vocodes can generate eerily realistic deepfake soundbites of ...
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TikTok owner ByteDance's AI chief to leave as US pressure rises
ByteDance's head of AI research is leaving the Beijing-based firm amid mounting scrutiny of the company's video app TikTok. ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Humanity joins the hivemind
Welcome to the latest article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we’ll examine some of the most popular ...
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This AI tool can identify individual birds with 90% accuracy
An AI tool trained on images of great tits, sociable weavers, and zebra finches could accurately identify the birds in new ...
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This AI uses emoji to protect BLM protestors from facial recognition
Stanford Machine Learning researchers have develop an anonymization tool called the BLMPrivacyBot that covers the faces of ...
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Here's why AI didn't save us from COVID-19
When the COVID-19 pandemic began we were all so full of hope. We assumed our technology would save us from a disease that ...
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Facebook built a powerful AI model to simulate entire social media networks in action
When it comes to live-fire high-wire acts in the tech industry, there can be few endeavors more daunting than executing a ...
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AI researchers say we've squeezed nearly as much out of modern computers as we can
Deep learning's reached the end of its rope. At least according to a group of researchers from MIT, Underwood International ...
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Elon Musk claims his brain chip can stimulate your pleasure center
Neuralink's mission has never quite been clear. We know it's working on a chip designed to be surgically inserted into the ...
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Everything you need to know about transfer learning in AI
Today, artificial intelligence programs can recognize faces and objects in photos and videos, transcribe audio in real-time, ...
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Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people
These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Artificial stupidity
Welcome to the latest article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we’ll examine some of the most popular ...
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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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What is the difference between artificial neural networks and biological brains?
What is the master algorithm that allows humans to be so efficient at learning things? That is a question that has perplexed ...
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How an AI graphic designer convinced clients it was human
Art. Lebedev Studio has built an AI designer that creates original company logos. Sergey Kulinkovich, the company's art director, ...
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An introduction on how to export and import JavaScript modules
There seems to be some confusion when it comes to JavaScript modules. Some developers are unsure of how they work and why ...
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Here's what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding
The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human ...
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This AI spit outs endless new My Little Pony characters
An AI system called This Pony Does Not Exist uses a generative neural network (GAN) to create infinite new pony portraits. ...
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AI finds 250 foreign stars that migrated to our galaxy
Astronomers have used deep learning to discover 250 new stars in the Milky Way, which they believe were born outside the ...
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How Barcelona is using AI on its subway trains to curb spread of COVID-19
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall
The White House has struck a deal with Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the US-Mexico ...
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Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics
A study by data science firm Anaconda found a "concerning" absence of AI ethics initiatives in both academia and industry. ...
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Can AI convincingly answer existential questions?
A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to existential questions than history's most influential ...
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New AI project captures Jane Austen's thoughts on social media
A new AI project from magician and novelist Andrew Mayne creates simulated conversations with historical figures including ...
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Python is great, but stop using it for every damn project
Recently, I had a discussion on Reddit about why someone would opt to use Python over other programming languages. The discussion ...
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Inside China's plan to lead the world in AI
China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still ...
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MIT removes huge dataset that teaches AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
MIT has taken offline a massive and highly-cited dataset that trained AI systems to use racist and misogynistic terms to ...
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What is the AI brain drain?
Twenty years ago, the people interested in artificial intelligence research were mostly confined in universities and non-profit ...
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MIT's coronavirus-killer robot uses UV-C light to disinfect warehouses
A new MIT robot that uses UV light to kill the coronavirus could be used to disinfect warehouses, schools, and offices. ...
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What is generative adversarial network (GAN) — and how it makes computers creative
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try) to disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Moments ...
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Research: Artificial neural networks are more similar to the brain than we thought
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial ...
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This AI detects political affiliation just by reading tweets about COVID-19
A new AI tool has shown how fractured the rhetoric of politicians has been on COVID-19 by analyzing their tweets about the ...
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Our fragile 40-years-old Banking infrastructure can only be saved with AI
IT failures are more common than we think. Admitting that you have a problem means there is a risk in doing business with ...
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What you should know about investing in AI during economic downturn
Over the past few months, the COVID-19 virus has had a huge impact on the globe. As of April 28, according to the World Health ...
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NASA enlists AI in the hunt for ET
The ExoMars mission to find life on Mars moved closer to take-off this week after NASA unveiled the first results of an ...
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How machine learning finds anomalies to catch financial cybercriminals
In the last few months, millions of dollars have been stolen from unemployment systems during this time of immense pressure ...
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Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia team up to develop next-gen autonomous car computers
This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information ...
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Stop calling it bias. AI is racist
Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested earlier this year in Detroit, Michigan on suspicion of stealing five watches from ...
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Trump's latest immigration ban is bad news for US AI ambitions
Trump's suspension of the H-1B visa program for highly-skilled workers will cut off US access to international AI talent. ...
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How an AI learned to stitch up patients by studying surgical videos
The algorithm -- known as Motion2Vec -- was trained on footage of medics using da Vinci surgical robots to stitch up wounds ...
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The advantages of self-explainable AI over interpretable AI
Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm that works eerily well, making accurate decisions 99.9% of the time, ...
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AI is tracking down the UK's biggest foe: Japanese knotweed
Scientists are using AI to find invasive species of plants, including the scourge of British homes and gardens: Japanese ...
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Sci-fi perpetuates a misogynistic view of AI -- Here's how we can fight it
Sci-fi has reinforced stereotypes in tech. Promoting marginalized voices will make the industry and its products more diverse ...
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How AI helps scientists find reliable coronavirus research
As the world unites in the fight against COVID-19, scientists and researchers around the world are studying the novel coronavirus ...
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Study: Artificial brains need rest too
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory found that the artificial brains benefitted from a digital analog of sleep ...
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Microsoft's AI editor uses photo of wrong mixed-race popstar in story about racism
Microsoft's AI editor uses photo of wrong mixed-race popstar in story about racism
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AI conference NeurIPS extends paper submission deadline amid BLM protests
The deadline for AI mega-conference NeurIPS has been extended by 48 hours, to give people affected by protests in the US ...
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New AR app will let you model a virtual companion on anyone you want
A smartphone app called Hybri is adding an unsettling touch of reality to VR, by scanning photos of real people onto an avatar's ...
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This German town replicated itself in VR to keep its tourism alive
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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US joins G7 AI alliance to counter China's influence
The US is joining the rest of the G7 in the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, in an effort to contain China's ...
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Scientists claim they can teach AI to judge 'right' from 'wrong'
Scientists claim they can "teach" an AI moral reasoning by training it to extract ideas of right and wrong from texts
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AI algorithms are puzzled by our online behavior during the coronavirus pandemic
At some point, every one of us has had the feeling that online applications like YouTube, Amazon, and Spotify seem to know ...
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Researchers use drones and AI to detect Soviet 'butterfly' landmines
Scientists have developed a method of automatically detecting hidden landmines by using AI to scan images captured by drones ...
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Scientists are using AI to predict which lung cancer patients will relapse
A new AI tool could predict which lung cancer patients will suffer a relapse by analyzing genetic data and pathology images ...
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Researchers used AI to crack Microsoft Outlook's CAPTCHA
Not only are they super annoying, but it turns out text-based CAPTCHAs are also potentially a security risk — even those ...
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Google pledges not to build more custom AI for fossil fuel extraction
Google says it won't create new custom AI for fossil fuel extraction, unlike its cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon ...
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Democrats demand answers from Google on diversity training cuts
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have demanded answers from Google on reported cuts to its diversity and inclusion ...
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New AI from DeepMind and Google can detect a common cause of blindness
DeepMind and Google Health have developed an AI that can predict who'll get one of the world's most common causes of blindness. ...
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This AI tool automatically identifies different types of brain injury
Scientists from Imperial College London and Cambridge have developed an AI tool that can identify different brain injuries ...
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In the AI era, universities need to strengthen students' creativity
Advances in artificial intelligence in the early 2010s, particularly in deep learning, triggered a new wave of panic and ...
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Uber introduces AI to make sure its drivers wear face masks
Uber is making face masks mandatory in the US, Canada, India, and most of Europe and Latin America -- and will use AI to ...
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Confetti, koalas, and candles of love: Backstage at Eurovision's AI song contest
Eurovision may have been cancelled by the coronavirus, but an AI song contest went ahead in the place. Here's how it went ...
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This AI tool predicts who's got COVID-19 without testing
A new AI diagnostic tool trained on crowdsourced data from the COVID Symptom Study app predicts who's got COVID-19 without ...
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This AI spits out an infinite feed of fake furry portraits
It started with delicious AI-generated food that didn't exist, then it was people, then it was cats, Airbnbs, memes, feet ...
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Computer vision is transforming healthcare with rapid cell counting and patient identification
AI in healthcare has been a hot topic for years and with advances in deep learning, it’s being successfully implemented ...
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Corpse-detecting robots will use AI to recover bodies from the Korean War
South Korea is developing autonomous robots that scan underground the DMZ to recover the remains of soldiers killed in the ...
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Democrats counter Trump's fake coronavirus news with AI that fought ISIS propaganda
An anti-Trump PAC is using AI originally designed to tackle Islamic State propaganda to counter coronavirus disinformation ...
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Streaming service Deezer built an AI to catch the explicit lyrics human censors miss
Streaming service Deezer has developed an AI technique that automatically detects explicit lyrics -- just by analyzing ...
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Is AI already conscious?
The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, ...
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Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic
BenevolentAI's discovery of a potential coronavirus treatment show's that drug discovery is one application of AI that's ...
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The Artist in the Machine: The bigger picture of AI and creativity
Will machines ever be able to replace or replicate human creativity? That is a question that we repeatedly ask ourselves ...
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Facebook's teaching AI to lie like a human
Facebook AI researchers today announced Blender, a set of state-of-the-art open-source chatbot models. These new models are ...
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This AI-driven meme generator delivers the avant-garde content you need
Are memes art? And are computers capabale of producing it? The answer is yes, because we've discovered this AI meme generator. ...
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Here's your stupid horoscope made by smart AI
Apparently there are still some people who believe that horoscopes are legitimate. I'd like to sell each of them a share ...
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Don't drink bleach
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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UK spies must ramp up use of AI to fight new threats, says report
UK spies must use AI to counter cyber attacks and augment intelligence analysis, according to a new study commissioned by eavesdropping agency GCHQ ...
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This AI wrote such emo lyrics that humans thought it was My Chemical Romance
AI lyrics created by a text-generating machine called GPT-2 are so emo that people think they were written by My Chemical ...
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AI study of Twitter bots reveals boredom is what separates us from machines
Our horrible attention spans distinguish us from bots, according to University of Southern California study of human and ...
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AI isn't going to save you from yourselves
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...
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The NHS is using AI to predict coronavirus ventilator and ICU demand
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is using AI to predict demand for intensive care beds and ventilators during the ...
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This AI-powered port in Japan prevents ship collisions better than humans
Computer manufacturer Fujitsu and the Japan Coast Guard have successfully proven the effectiveness of AI in preventing collisions ...
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Everything you need to know about narrow AI
In 1956, a group of scientists led by John McCarthy, a young assistant-professor of mathematics, gathered at the Dartmouth ...
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MIT's AI-powered device lets doctors monitor coronavirus patients remotely
A new device that uses AI to monitor coronavirus symptoms is helping doctors treat patients beyond the reach of infection ...
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AI, you have some explaining to do
You never know what goes on behind closed doors. When it comes to your next-door neighbors, maybe it’s better that way. ...
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Check out these gorgeous visualizations of popular neural networks
OpenAI today released 'Microscope,' a database of complex AI visualizations designed to aid researchers in developing techniques ...
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Google's AutoML Zero lets the machines create algorithms to avoid human bias
It looks like Google's working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language 'AutoML.' According ...
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Google Duplex arrives in Australia, Canada, and the UK
Google Duplex, an AI phone assistant, is now available in Australia, Canada, and the UK, according to the company's support ...
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AI predicts where coronavirus cases will spike next
Six regions of the UK will soon suffer coronavirus outbreaks, according to an AI that predicts where cases will spike next ...
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These AIs think they can translate your dog’s barks
If you're worried about what's going on inside your dog's mind, a new AI system will tell you -- just by listening to it ...
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Will product designers survive the AI revolution?
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the ...
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AI predicts results of English Premier League matches canceled by coronavirus
Opta has finally answered the question plaguing every soccer fan's mind: How would my team have done if coronavirus hadn't ...
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Facebook apologizes after AI blocks posts about DIY coronavirus masks
Facebook's AI moderators claimed another innocent victim this week when an algorithm blocked content on DIY masks that protect ...
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Researchers want your voice to train coronavirus-detecting AI
Researchers behind an AI app that detects coronavirus in your voice have asked for volunteers to upload audio of them coughing, ...
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MIT researchers use AI to turn the coronavirus into a haunting melody
An AI system that turns the coronavirus' structure into music could help scientists spot details about COVID-19 that a microscope ...
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AI reveals that mice's faces express a range of emotions -- just like humans
AI has revealed that mice's faces have a range of expressions showing how they feel, offering clues about how emotional responses ...
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How AI can determine which coronavirus patients require hospitalization
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world, governments and hospitals are being overwhelmed ...
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This startup made a coronavirus knowledge graph to help doctors with diagnosis
As coronavirus infections continue to spread, doctors and researchers are looking for new tools that can help them with better ...
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DeepMind's new AI can beat humans at 57 Atari games
Google subsidiary DeepMind has unveiled an AI called Agent57 that can beat the average human at 57 classic Atari 2600 games ...
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Claims that AI detects coronavirus in X-rays aren't convincing medical experts
Tech firms are making bold claims that AI detects coronavirus, but the healthcare professionals have doubts about the benefits ...
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Entrepreneurs must warm up to AI — or risk their own 'AlphaGo loss'
Evolutionary AI can help people find the best strategies and find the optimum solutions. No longer relying on human input, ...
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Scientists use AI system to translate brain activity into text
A new AI system that can translate brain activity into text could transform communication for people who can't speak or type. ...
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Dubious claims that AI outperforms doctors pose risk to 'millions of patients,' study finds
Many of the studies claiming AI outperforms doctors at interpreting medical images are poor quality and "arguably exaggerated," ...
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Facial recognition and AI will invade public privacy — but it can be done ethically
We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost any information we need. With the emergence of new technology ...
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Speech recognition technology is racist, study finds
Study finds that speech recognition developed by Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and IBM make almost twice as many errors ...
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Israel builds survey-reading AI that predicts coronavirus outbreaks
Researchers in Israel are predicting where the coronavirus will spread to next by analyzing responses to questionnaires with ...
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Why every online store needs a customer service chatbot
In recent times, organizations have been competing with one another to implement chatbots for various reasons, including ...
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Darktrace's co-CEO on trusting AI to fight cyberattacks on our behalf
Darktrace had to take customers on a journey to help them trust algorithms in the fight against cyber attacks, the company's ...
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AI analyzes biology studies to find out we're getting better at wildlife conservation
A new AI system has revealed that we're finally getting better at wildlife conservation after evaluating thousands of academic ...
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This AI system listens to coughs to learn where the coronavirus is spreading
A new AI-powered surveillance system called FluSense monitors coughing sounds to understand where the coronavirus is spreading ...
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Introducing our new newsletter, Coronavirus in Context
Today we're introducing our brand new newsletter: Coronavirus in Context. In this weekly email, we'll bring you ...
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Understanding the limits of convolutional neural networks — one of AI's greatest achievements
After a prolonged winter, artificial intelligence is experiencing a scorching summer mainly thanks to advances in deep learning ...
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Social media firms will use more AI to combat coronavirus misinformation, even if it makes more mistakes
Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube will be using more AI to tackle coronavirus misinformation, which they admit will ...
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White House asks Silicon Valley for AI solutions to coronavirus
White House officials called on the tech sector to help combat the coronavirus with AI in a meeting with Silicon Valley heavyweights ...
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White House's 29,000 coronavirus papers will be fed to AI experts for analysis
The White House has urged AI experts to analyze a dataset of 29,000 scholarly articles about Coronavirus that could answer ...
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This AI traffic monitoring system can spot road incidents with near 100% accuracy
An AI traffic management system that identifies cars, accidents, gridlocks, and dangerous driving, reached near 100% accuracy ...
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This stance-detecting AI will help us fact-check fake news
Fighting fake news has become a growing problem in the past few years, and one that begs for a solution involving artificial ...
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Researcher builds AI rapper to spit sick rhymes — with mixed results
Li Yang Ku, a researcher at robotics firm Vicarious AI, trained the AI to rap by feeding it classic lines from Jay-Z, Kanye ...
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The Pentagon wants game devs to help build AI fighter jets
Military research agency DARPA wants video game developers to help it develop AI fighter jets as part of the agency's ACE ...
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AI studies our photos to prove that nature makes us happy
Researchers from the National University of Singapore proved that nature makes us happy, by using AI to analyze photos on ...
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Google launches TensorFlow for quantum computers
Google today launched TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for prototyping quantum machine learning models. Quantum ...
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China tests AI that predicts earthquakes better than lousy humans
China is developing an earthquake prediction system that uses AI to measure seismic activity in one of the world's most quake-prone ...
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This AI detects eye disease in newborn babies
Scientists have developed an AI system that can identify infants at risk of going blind by analyzing images of their eyes ...
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Clearview AI's law enforcement client data stolen in massive breach
“Security is Clearview's top priority.” Tor Eklund, attorney for Clearview AI. Clearview AI, the dubious startup that's ...
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Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war
The Pentagon has unveiled five ethical principles for the use of AI by the US military, but the ambiguous guidelines won't ...
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New discoveries in neuroscience show what’s right and wrong with AI
Two separate studies, one by UK-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind and the other by researchers in Germany and Greece, ...
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3 ways AI is transforming the insurance industry
As AI, big data, and the internet of things (IoT) find their way into every aspect of our lives, many industries are undergoing ...
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Clearview AI's false claims of accuracy increase the dangers of its face recognition software
Clearview AI's calamitous press campaign had another mishap yesterday when the ACLU slammed its claims of being rated "100% ...
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AI will never replace good old human creativity
The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not ...
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Trump's new budget pours billions into AI and quantum R&D
The US Office of Science and Technology today released more information about President Donald Trump's FY 2021 budget and, ...
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Google's Meena is impressive, but AI chatbots are still 'cheap imitations' of humans
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial ...
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This AI model improves and colorizes old videos and the results are stunning
Last week, my colleague Tristan wrote about an AI developer who used machine learning to upscale the famous 1895 train scene ...
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Reuters built a prototype for automated news videos using Deepfakes tech
The Reuters news company and an AI startup named Synthesia today unveiled a new project they've partnered on that uses Deepfakes-style ...
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MIT researchers developed a text-based system that tricks Google's AI
There are plenty of examples of AI models being fooled out there. From Google's AI to detect images mistaking a turtle for ...
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Bartenders watch out: A robot server in Tokyo can make cocktails in one minute
The $82,000 QBIT Robotics machine serving drinks at restaurant chain Yoronotaki can also pour a beer in 40 seconds
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Programmable living robots can help cure cancer — but how ethical are they?
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This ...
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AI-driven DNA evidence analysis has a transparency problem
DNA evidence often isn’t as watertight as many people think. Sensitive techniques developed over the past 20 years mean ...
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Chicago police: Facial recognition adds “jet fuel” for criminal investigations
If you accessed the internet in last week or so, chances are you came across the name ClearView AI -- a terrifying facial ...
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RealityEngines' AI could help small businesses overcome the data gap
RealityEngines.AI today came out of stealth to launch an autonomous AI generation service aimed at startups and medium to ...
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Why the smartest AI is still dumber than a toddler -- and how we can fix that
Artificial intelligence is, undeniably, one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. It belongs on a ...
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Report: Cloudflare provided CDN services to sites hosting exploitative child content
For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual ...
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How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime
While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in every ...
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Get ready for the emergence of AI-as-a-Service
By delivering analytical behavior persistently learned and refined by a machine, AIaaS can significantly improve business ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Wall-E syndrome
This is the second article in TNW's "A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse" series highlighting the potential existential ...
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Data sharing is key to an AI-driven medical revolution
It is not often that one witnesses a transformational advance in medicine. But the application of artificial intelligence ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...
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Sundar Pichai says AI should be regulated, asks governments to step up
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times today outlining the need for regulating AI. ...
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Life will soon be like 'Her' — and we'll fall in love with AI
With each passing day, we're using artificial intelligence for a variety of purposes and jobs. It has penetrated almost every ...
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Why using AI to screen job applicants is almost always a bunch of crap
Millions of potential employees are subjected to artificial intelligence screenings during the hiring process every month. ...
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Google's new AI language model can comprehend entire books
One of the prime challenges of a language-based AI model is to understand the context of the surrounding content. To solve ...
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AlphaZero beat humans at Chess and StarCraft, now it's working with quantum computers
A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing ...
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Microsoft’s camera-based AI app solves your math problems
Microsoft has made several quirky and useful apps that can help you with daily problems and its new app seeks to help you ...
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What are neural-symbolic AI methods and why will they dominate 2020?
Symbolic reasoning algorithms may be poised to emerge into the spotlight; hybridized with neural networks in the form of ...
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Trump's chief technology officer is treating AI regulation like the net neutrality repeal
Did you ever notice how the Trump administration's chief science and technology officer Michael Kratsios never talks while ...
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AI’s key to true intelligence is learning how to forget
AI has to strategically forget data while keeping the necessary concepts stored, just like a human, instead of overwriting ...
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Artificial intelligence: How to measure the 'I' in AI
Last week, Lee Se-dol, the South Korean Go champion who lost in a historical matchup against DeepMind’s artificial intelligence ...
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Text this number for an infinite feed of AI-generated feet
Someone trained a computer to create fake feet pics — and you can get endless AI-generated foot pics by texting this number. ...
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Before we augment people with tech, we’ll need proper rules
New technologies – from artificial intelligence to synthetic biology – are set to alter the world, the human condition, ...
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How robots, AI, and drones are changing toy manufacturing
I’m a geek. And as a geek, I love my tech toys. But over time I’ve noticed toys are becoming harder to understand. Some ...
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Samsung is working on lifelike AI-powered avatars to fill in for humans
Samsung has been teasing 'NEON' for a few days now, and we finally have some idea of what it's about: AI-powered digital ...
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What we can do to make sure automation doesn't negatively affect the work force
Artificial intelligence and automation are continuing to drill deeper into our society. In the business industry, ...
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AI creativity will bloom in 2020, all thanks to true web machine learning
TensorFlow.js is a gamechanger for AI. It's an end-to-end open source ML library that is capable of running pre-trained AI ...
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Google's new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray
Google's AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model ...
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Researcher: Here are 5 things that scare me about AI
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew ...
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2020 will be the year AI kills company dashboards
Every business should have a speedometer, but today's use of "data" and "dashboard" interchangeably is an oversimplification ...
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5 ways AI can make your car journeys less boring — and more safe
Driving long distances without a passenger can be lonely. If you’ve ever done it, you might have wished for a companion ...
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These prosthetics designers harness AI to assist India’s amputees
“With amputations being reported on a daily basis, India’s vast rural hinterland is comparable to a warzone,” says ...
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Here’s how to spot legitimate AI from marketing fluff
Q: What’s the difference between AI and Machine Learning (ML)? A: If it’s written in Python, it’s ML. If it’s written ...
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Your home isn’t smart, it’s just connected — here’s why
We’re getting to the point in 2020 where we should reassess what it truly means to describe something as “smart.” We ...
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Design challenges in the age of AI, and how to overcome them
Design is an ever-evolving field. So much so that it’s hard to keep track of design job titles. Originally, product designers ...
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Here's what AI experts think will happen in 2020
It's been another great year for robots. We didn't quite figure out how to imbue them with human-level intelligence, but ...
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How to stop AI from perpetuating harmful biases
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, ...
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Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI
If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t ...
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How the digital revolution can tackle the climate crisis
Life has changed almost beyond recognition in the last few decades. Artificial intelligence (AI) has substituted entire job ...
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How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?
Picture yourself driving down a city street. You go around a curve, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ...
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How binarized networks work — and why they’ll be big for AI in 2020
If a neural network is a Picasso painting, a binarized network is a rough pencil sketch.
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Why AI could benefit from seeing the world as kids do
Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm. It is already manifesting in a plethora of industries and organizations ...
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Why two world-renowned AI experts might have to eat a million Tesla robo-taxis in 2020
2019 is almost over and that means it's time to check in on Tesla's progress towards fielding a million robo-taxis. You see, ...
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Communication in the Age of AI
I spent many years working with start-ups and large corporations, and invariably they all spent a large proportion of their ...
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Researchers were about to solve AI's black box problem, then the lawyers got involved
AI has a “black box” problem. We cram data in one side of a machine learning system and we get results out the other, ...
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Instagram's AI now warns you if your caption is offensive
Instagram today announced it's rolling out a new feature in its ongoing attempt to curb bullying: AI that will warn users ...
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A tech apocalypse is inevitable without the humanities
If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. ...
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[Best of 2019] 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 ...
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[Best of 2019] 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 ...
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[Best of 2019] 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. ...
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[Best of 2019] 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 ...
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Why researchers should make sure robots don’t become weapons
Robotics is rapidly being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence. And the benefits are widespread: we are seeing ...
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What AI analysis of placentas can teach us about childbirth and health
Artificial Intelligence may be one of the greatest technologies developed by humans. The quest for imitating human intelligence ...
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This is what the AI industry will look like in 2020
As we come to the end of 2019, we reflect on a year whose start already saw 100 machine learning papers published a day and ...
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[Best of 2019] 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.
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[Best of 2019] 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 ...
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Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google
Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after ...
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WhatsApp will sue businesses for abusing bulk messaging
Getting a barrage of bulk messages is one of the most annoying parts of modern messaging services, but now WhatsApp says ...
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What will happen to our memory if we let computers remember everything for us?
When I was a student, in the distant past when most computers were still huge mainframes, I had a friend whose PhD advisor ...
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Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more personalized
Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since it was in its blooming stages in the 1940s. It was a time when the direct ...
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Nvidia built an AI that creates 3D models from 2D images
What if developing a 3D gaming world were as easy as snapping pics with your phone? Nvidia researchers recently developed ...
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Why China's 'military AI budget' is irrelevant (spoiler: all AI is military AI)
A recently published study from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), a think-tank at Georgetown University, ...
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How the 'bigger is better' mentality is damaging AI research
Something you’ll hear a lot is that the increasing availability of computing resources has paved the way for important ...
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Regional strengths are shaping AI’s evolution in Asia
McKinsey estimates that by 2030, 70 percent of companies "might have adopted at least one of the five categories of AI like ...
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Watch: Performance-enhancing AI could change baseball forever
Meet Tipper, a convolutional neural network that lives on an Nvidia AI card. Its creator says it can predict whether a baseball ...
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Facebook’s new chatbot teaches employees how to answer difficult questions about the company
Facebook’s public relations teams built an artificial intelligence bot to help its employees deflect criticism from relatives ...
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How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics
A team of researchers from MIT recently tapped the amazing potential of the human brain to develop an AI model that understands ...
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Australia's new AI system will catch drivers using their phones
We've been told a million times that texting (or tweeting) while driving is dangerous. However, a lot of folks still do it; ...
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World champion Go player retires: AI 'cannot be defeated'
One of South Korea's most celebrated professional Go players, master Lee Se-dol, has retired, citing the futility of raging ...
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Researcher uses AI to unravel the mystery of Shakespeare's co-author
After all these years, someone might have figured out exactly how much Shakespeare worked on one of his last plays. It's ...
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Scientists developed a new AI framework to prevent machines from misbehaving
They promised us the robots wouldn't attack... In what seems like dialogue lifted straight from the pages of a post-apocalyptic ...
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Here's why AI deserves the same rights as animals
Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organizations such as ...
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Mozilla and Element AI want to build 'data trusts' in the artificial intelligence age
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based Element AI ...
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We can’t just regulate — we must teach our AIs values
We need to instill universal values into our intelligent machines themselves, as a way to ensure our coexistence with them. ...
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Elon Musk says Neuralink can 'solve' autism with a brain chip. We call BS
Elon Musk's back on the podcast scene and causing mayhem as usual. Instead of smoking cannabis with Joe Rogan – an activity ...
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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 ...
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We've got to regulate the application of AI — not the tech itself
Regulations around the application of AI could prove vital in the future, while focusing on managing the tech itself is a ...
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Pardon the Intrusion #4: Smart malware?
Welcome to the latest edition of TNW's Pardon The Intrusion, a newsletter where we explore the wild world of cybersecurity. ...
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Why the quickest path to human-level AI may be letting it evolve on its own
It's become increasingly clear as we reach its limits that deep learning – a specific subset of AI technology – isn't ...
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Opinion: It's arrogant to assume humans will never imbue AI with consciousness
“Cogito, ergo sum,” Rene Descartes. Translation: “I think, therefore I am.” What makes us, us? How is it that ...
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Remember that scary AI text-generator that was too dangerous to release? It's out now
OpenAI today published the final model in its staged release for GPT-2, the spooky text generator the AI community's been ...
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WTF: A California teacher wore blackface in class to rap about AI
A white California high school teacher showed up for classes in blackface last week as part of his Halloween costume. Social ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Misaligned objectives
Welcome to the first article in TNW's guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we'll examine some of the most popular doomsday ...
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Adobe's new Photoshop Camera app puts AI-powered filters on your phone
Adobe just announced a new version of Photoshop for your smartphone, but it's nothing like the one you use on your PC. Instead, ...
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This site dares you to literally 'give a shit for science'
A pair of startups yesterday launched a campaign to convince people to send them pictures of their poop. We bet you didn't ...
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Facebook's new AI tweaks video so you can't be identified by face recognition tech
Facebook's face de-identification tech modifies your face slightly in video content to thwart facial recognition systems. ...
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Google is training an AI to predict a molecule’s smell
With plenty of mics and cameras at disposal, AI has gotten good at 'seeing' and 'listening.' But one human sense it hasn't ...
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Why a robot that can 'solve' Rubik's Cube one-handed has the AI community at war
OpenAI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk, recently unveiled its newest trick: A robot hand that can 'solve' Rubik's Cube. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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'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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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.
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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