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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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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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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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 enhancing customer experience, streamlining processes, and fueling the demand for digital and innovative technologies. Cognitive technologies such as chatbots have ...
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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 and artificial neural networks. To be more precise, the renewed interest in deep learning is largely due to the success of convolutional neural networks ...
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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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‘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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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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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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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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How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition
Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...
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OnePlus will spend $138M on its new software R&D center in India over 3 years
OnePlus today inaugurated its first Research & Development center in India, which will initially focus on software features ...
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Dear Netflix: Please ditch the algorithm and focus on human-curated 'Collections'
Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks ...
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How an AI in China helped nab a suspected murderer - with a face scan
We've read plenty of stories of how AI can be horrible, but it can also be surprisingly useful. According to a report by ...
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I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague
The age of man has ended: my new colleague is a robot writer.
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Skills every ambitious tech professional will need in 2020
Tech industry employment is a seller’s market firmly on the side of top talent, but competition for the best jobs remains ...
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AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have
Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often ...
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NotJordanPeterson lets you generate uncannily realistic Jordan Peterson sound bites
NotJordanPeterson is a mind-boggling voice AI that lets you say anything you'd like in the voice of Canadian psychologist ...
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Implanting AI chips in your mind could cause you to lose yourself, says scientist
AI-based enhancements could be used to supplement neural activity, but if theyreplace normal functioning neural tissue, this ...
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This startup's 'AI' to build your apps is just a bunch of human devs
AI is one of the most common buzzwords of the current startup generation. Companies often claim to have revolutionary AI ...
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Humans have been listening to our 'AI-transcribed' conversations for over a decade
This ain't new. AI is a con job.
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The android Turing Test can tell us whether a robot is effectively a person
Alan Turing was recently announced as the face of the new £50 note for his code breaking contributions in World War II and ...
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How AI, blockchain, and wearables are changing the face of healthcare
Several major classes of technology stand a good chance of changing healthcare as we know it. Home healthcare, in particular, ...
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Here’s how researchers are making machine learning more efficient and affordable for everyone
The research and development of neural networks is flourishing thanks to recent advancements in computational power, the ...
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I let Izotope's AI handle the mixing in my recording studio and now I'm on the machines' side
Izotope's Neutron 3 Advanced audio software is an AI-powered mixing assistant you inject into your favorite DAW. It uses machine learning to balance and EQ your audio tracks so you can spend more time getting your music right and less time fiddling with virtual knobs and sliders. ...
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This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie
The machine learning models that can detect our face and movements are now part of our daily lives with smartphone features ...
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Hype is killing AI – here’s how we can stop it
Mystified and vilified at the same time. That’s how I would currently describe “artificial intelligence,” one of the ...
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Watch Samsung's AI render photorealistic scenes from video
A trio of Samsung AI researchers recently developed a neural network capable of rendering photorealistic graphical scenes ...
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We might never achieve general AIs — but it's important that we try
There are many parallels between self-driving car and artificial intelligence. They are goals that, the closer we get to ...
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This AI tool is smart enough to spot AI-generated articles and tweets
Researchers from Harvard University and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created a new tool that aims to detect whether a specific ...
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Listen to this AI chat up a frustrated telemarketer for 15 minutes
Telemarketers are the bane of our existence. With the rise of robocalls and automated bots meant to call hundreds of numbers ...
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Facebook releases AI-powered tools to map the world
Facebook today released a bunch of machine learning-powered tools to help create maps of the world. The company's tools, ...
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Why US public schools' creepy use of surveillance AI should frighten you
Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent ...
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TikTok's parent company appears to have acquired AI music startup Jukedeck
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, appears to have acquired a startup that makes AI-generated music called Jukebox, an ...
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Microsoft sinks $1B into OpenAI to build 'supercomputer AI' for Azure
Microsoft has invested $1 billion in Elon Musk-founded company OpenAI in an effort build supercomputer AI technologies for ...
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This site turns your selfies into Renaissance portraits with AI
First came Instagram filters. Then came the Snapchat masks. Now AI renders are the latest way of using technology to change ...
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Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with it
You're outta here! Professional baseball's first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn't take long ...
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AI fails to recognize these nature images 98% of the time
You can't fool all the people all the time, but a new dataset of untouched nature photos seems to confuse state-of-the-art ...
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This AI magically removes moving objects from videos
Researchers used AI to build software that lets you effortlessly remove moving objects from video – just like Adobe's After ...
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Why empathy won’t get automated anytime soon
Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to put us all out of a job or create more jobs. Either way, tech education is ...
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Elon Musk's Neuralink wants you to type on your iPhone using your brain
One of the first applications that Neuralink has envisioned for its brain-computer interface is a way to let people control ...
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There’s a secret hidden inside the binary code on Alan Turing’s new £50 note
The Bank of England slipped a hidden binary code in the design of the new £50 bill which features computer pioneer Alan ...
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To prepare today's workforce for AI, they must understand it's not a threat
All entrepreneurs and business leaders talk about: What does a future with AI look like? What are the gains that AI can make ...
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Nations must double down on AI R&D — or risk falling behind
There’s a clear comparison between the space race of the 1960s and the present-day surge in national AI development.
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Steam sequesters strange AI experiments into a new 'Lab'
Steam bounced back from a rather confusing game sale by starting its own mad science space to play with AI and machine learning ...
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Fears of AI-powered hacking are misplaced as criminals are doing fine without it
AI is captivating tech news audiences. But, growing expectations for AI’s impact on legitimate business have spawned a ...
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Hey look, AI ruined Garfield
AI can do a lot of things — it fuels our voice assistants, understands pizza, and might even steal our jobs! And you ...
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Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities
Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform - but it remains to be seen how ...
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Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives
Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive ...
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A beginner's guide to AI: Supervised and unsupervised learning
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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There's now an AI to prevent cats from bringing dead animals into your house
I came across this fascinating model creator by an engineer named Ben Hamm that stopped his cat from bringing dead preys ...
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Humans and AI will work better when they start learning from each other
In the age of big data and breathtaking advances of artificial intelligence, social infrastructure promotes digital engagement ...
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IBM's Call for Code Starter Kits are a perfect intro to coding and AI
IBM recently debuted technology Starter Kits to aid those joining the company's Call for Code challenge. Anyone interested ...
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This AI is so goddamn smart, it can name other AIs
But we have to admit, these models don't have sassy names. So, research scientist Janelle Shane has developed a neural ...
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Virginia outlaws deepfakes in its efforts to curb revenge porn
To combat "deepfakes," Virginia just became one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties on the distribution ...
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Tacoma convenience store's facial recognition AI is a racist nightmare
A convenience store in Tacoma has installed a facial recognition security system to deny customers entry unless they're approved ...
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This new photo AI lets you add, delete, and edit objects with one click
But this new AI made by the researchers from MIT and IBM lets you add, edit, or remove an object just with a click.
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Zuckerberg isn't ready for deepfakes
Faced with a potential crisis, the magnitude of which the world has never seen, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants us all ...
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Deepnudes developer shuts it down, but the damage is done
There's no positive use case for developing an app with the sole purpose of using AI to predict what a clothed woman, in ...
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The first AI capable of simulating the universe works so well it's scary
A team of researchers recently pioneered the world's first AI universe simulator. It's fast; it's accurate; and its creators ...
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This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has an interesting new tactic in the war on fake news: make more of it. A ...
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Hackers are turning our AI security systems against us — but they can be stopped
With the use of AI growing in almost all areas of business and industry, we have a new problem to worry about – the “hijacking” ...
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MIT built a neural network to understand pizza
A group of MIT researchers recently developed an AI model that takes a list of instructions and generates a finished product. ...
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MIT researchers taught robots to link senses like sight and touch
MIT researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a predictive AI that allows ...
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The unforeseen trouble AI is now causing
AI has come a long way in recent years — but as many who work with this technology can attest, it is still prone to surprising ...
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AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon
Assigning blame can often be a complex task. A person’s actions, intentions, and state of mind all come into consideration ...
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Breakthrough research demonstrates AI can predict a psychotic break
A trio of researchers have developed an experimental machine learning method that allows AI to listen for the early whispers ...
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Big tech's AI runs on datasets labeled by marginalized people
Capitalism has a nasty habit of anchoring those beholden to it in an equilibrium where both the very poor and the very wealthy ...
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5 of the smartest people in AI teamed up to make awesome robots
An all-star team consisting of five of the brightest minds in AI today revealed the launch of Robust.AI, a new startup devoted ...
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Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed
Startup Resume Worded is an AI-powered platform that provides ‘tailored feedback’ on your resume and LinkedIn profile. ...
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Stanford's new AI can help doctors spot brain aneurysms
Stanford researchers have developed a new AI tool that makes use of deep learning model called HeadXNet todetect brain aneurysms. ...
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Developers: Meet your new AI intern
Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is ...
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This feminist chatbot challenges AI bias in voice assistants
Our future will be drived by AI so it's in everyone's interest to make sure it's not built on biases. AI chatbots are characterized ...
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Here's what the Vatican, US Evangelicals, and Satanists say about AI
The religious have been contemplating the existential threat of artificial intelligence for millennia. Long before Alexa ...
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How to prevent an AI-induced mid-career crisis
At this point, it feels like I’ve heard countless stories about workers who are restless about the effects that AI will ...
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Zalando's Director of Engineering on AI and the future of fashion
Last week's TNW Conference featured an amazing lineup of speakers, all sharing their unique knowledge and insights into ...
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This AI-powered bot is learning how to tweet like Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin
Meet Vitalik Boterin, a new form of artificial intelligence that mimics Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with alarming ...
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Research indicates the only defense against killer AI is not developing it
A recent analysis on the future of warfare indicates that countries that continue to develop AI for military use risk losing ...
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How to remove hiring bias through gamification
Gamification is getting ready to save us from that awkward pause after a recruiter sits back and says, “So tell me about ...
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Hyperdimensional computing theory could lead to AI with memories and reflexes
A team of scientists from the University of Maryland recently came up with a take on the hyperdimensional computing theory ...
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Microsoft's AI hallucinates unique whisky flavors
When whisky is made in Scotland it's called scotch. When it's made in Kentucky it's called whiskey – the Irish also add ...
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Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game
Since the 80s, fighting games have been a raucous good time, a way to blow off some steam while digitally beating an AI opponent ...
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Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived
For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...
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Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important
Google and Microsoft have designed a variety of assistive tools and services that allows differently abled people lead a ...
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Google's new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice
Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, ...
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Grand theft consciousness: How quantum algorithms will backdoor human-level AI
The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, as the legend goes, was invented when two oblivious young people walking around eating boring ...
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How to use AI to redefine the way we create art
The Mill's Rama Allen explains how we can leverage artificial intelligence to turn machines from tools into creative partners. ...
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AI avatars could be the next generation's favorite entertainers
Media houses and companies are already looking towards the next solution for producing content to keep up with the trend: ...
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The Mill's Rama Allen is live at TNW2019 – tune in now!
Rama Allen, Executive Creative Director at London-based VFX and creative studio The Mill, is on stage next at TNW2019 with ...
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These idiots shot a porno in an Autopilot-enabled Tesla and Elon Musk deserves some blame
Taylor Jackson is a pioneer, of sorts. The adult actress, to our knowledge, is the first to shoot a pornographic scene in ...
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Who are the creators of AI-generated art — programmers or machines?
The Art of Tech track at #TNW2019 will explore whether computer algorithms can truly create art, and how AI has been affecting ...
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Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI
A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...
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How today's AI can solve most of our traffic problems
While driverless cars and flying taxis hold the far-future promise of alleviating traffic congestion, today's problems require ...
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Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying
Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling ...
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Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission
In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...
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Dutch central bank tested blockchain for 3 years. The results? ‘Not that positive’
Cross-border payments, tokenization, and some smart contract stuff. These are blockchain's potential use-cases, according ...
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How AI can help close the gender pay gap and eliminate bias
We’ve learned how to build self-driving cars and smartphones but somehow still didn't figure out how to pay men and women ...
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AI won’t destroy us, it’ll make us smarter
A number of academics and tech entrepreneurs agree: computer intelligence will one day meet and exceed human intelligence. ...
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Here's what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)
In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided ...
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'You Can't Take My Door' is both country music and AI's greatest achievement
We know there's no justice in the world because the Country Music Awards, held earlier this month, didn't issue the evening's ...
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Deep learning can help us eradicate suicide – but only if we let it
Humanity's mental health crisis has reached pandemic proportions. Bluntly put: we don't seem capable of solving the problem ...
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Women in AI need better allies. Here’s how we can all help
Lin Classon, Director of Public Cloud Product at managed cloud provider Ensono and former Googler, has spent her entire career ...
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Emotionally intelligent AI will respond to how you feel
Artificial intelligence offers us an opportunity to amplify service and the integration of technology in everyday lives many ...
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IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville
One of top 200 universities in the US, along with a helping hand from IBM, is getting its students into blockchain with dedicated ...
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Autumn is coming: Expert says hype cycle will give way to 'rich harvest' of useful AI
Winter isn't coming. At least not for the world of artificial intelligence. Jeff Bigham, program director of the Human-computer ...
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Dota 2 players can sign up to compete against OpenAI’s champion-crushing bots this week
OpenAI has been training its bots to learn to play Dota 2 for years. It's gotten awfully good at it, and you can now test ...
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AI rejects conservative human views on furniture, designs wacky chair
If you're lucky enough to be in Italy for Milan Design Week this year, do yourself a favor and check out the world's first ...
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Brands know they need to personalize — but many haven’t figured out how
These days, everybody seems to be jumping on the personalization bandwagon, which is great, but I've noticed that brands ...
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Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening
Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying ...
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Google takes a break from being evil to announce AI Platform
Weather alert: be on the lookout for flying pigs. Google's new AI Platform looks to make good on the company's promise to ...
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Meet the nonprofit that’s already fighting for the rights of sentient robots
Movies like Blade Runner and other science fiction tend to depict robots as self-aware machines, capable of making their ...
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Amazon's plan to rival Apple AirPods is about more than selling you earphones
Bloomberg reports that Amazon is working on wireless earphones, similar to Apple's AirPods - but with support for the Alexa ...
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Facebook's AI prevents deceased users' profiles from popping up in your suggestions
It's hard to cope with the loss of a loved one, and it's harder when their profile pops up on Facebook as a suggestion, as ...
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Ian Goodfellow's hiring hints at what Apple's next 'one more thing' could be
Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his ...
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Researchers developed algorithms that mimic the human brain (and the results don't suck)
Researchers are kicking it old school with new biologically-feasible algorithms that appear to be able to hold their own ...
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Tech companies still care more about AI and IoT than blockchain
Blockchain might be the hot buzzword of the moment, but according to new research, it's being bested by the Internet-of-Things ...
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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 personalized content in your YouTube feed to translating text, diagnosing cancer and driving cars, the number of domains that the AI industry is touching is ...
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This company changes the DNA of investing — through machine learning
While the largest financial institutions in the world are using machine learning to create advanced investment practices, ...
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The Slack AI assistant automating creative tasks and driving data-driven decision making
As Adobe revea Project Expert Assist, audiences ponder if an AI assistant become a virtual bridge between the company's dataset ...
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AIs are being trained on racist data – and it’s starting to show
Machine learning algorithms process vast quantities of data and spot correlations, trends and anomalies, at levels far beyond ...
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AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls
Your first reaction is probably no, but you should reconsider, and here’s why. 911 call centers are overwhelmed and have ...
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Nvidia's new $99 pocket-sized AI computer is designed for DIY projects
Nvidia has just released a $99 pocket-sized computer named the Jetson Nano, targeted towards “embedded designers, researchers, ...
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What can psychopaths teach us about AI?
What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing ...
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AI can help fight climate change by optimizing energy efficiency
Henrik Brink of Ento Labs discusses AI's role in fighting climate change and why better data is essential for the future. ...
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This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing
Meetup Music (or 音遇) is a Chinese, turn-based singing game that has been lighting-up the country's app stores. We've ...
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The US Army wants us to pretend autonomous tanks aren't killer robots
Killer robots? Are you going to throw that in the Army's face everytime you have an argument? You're being irrational. Look, ...
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Deepmind teaches AI to follow navigational directions like humans
Deepmind paves the way for a better driverless car experience. Because, what good are taxis if you have to be sober enough ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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Governments need to embrace AI for the good of the people
AI has already taken the private sphere by storm, with massive corporations, dynamic startups, and even our own living rooms ...
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Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think
Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing ...
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Here's who has the most juice in Twitter's AI influencer community
The most influential people in the world of AI on Twitter might surprise you. We examine an Onalytica study on the reach ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Israel
Israel is a nation full of booming tech startups. In fact, according to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, Tel Aviv ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Finland
Although Finland has one of the lowest population densities in the EU, it’s responsible for 10 percent of global startup ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Portugal
It might be everyone’s dream to move to Portugal. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, and weather. Its vibrant startup scene ...
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Thisairbnbdoesntexist's AI generates Airbnbs a hip computer would want to stay in
Hello, welcome to yet another episode of the "thisdoesntexist" AI experiment. A clever developer has harness the power of ...
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Why tech giants are interested in regulating facial recognition
Last week, Amazon made the unexpected move of calling for regulation on facial recognition. In a blog post published on ...
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Sears’ bankruptcy underscores the need for tech innovation in retail
The demise of Sears provides a perfect cautionary tale. By all accounts, the former retail giant -- which was in a “death ...
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Who's afraid of OpenAI's big, bad text generator?
Have you heard about this new AI that makes fake news? It's supposedly so dangerous the developers had to lock it up! Not ...
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This app helps improve your writing by destroying it
Glass.leaves is a web app that lets you manipulate text in a variety of ways, helping your creative writing reach new levels. ...
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Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias
Predictive policing exacerbates inherent systemic bias, covers up unlawful policing, and perpetuates misinformation. It's ...
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thiscatdoesnotexist.com is, uhm, not as good as its human counterpart
AI still needs some time to figure out how cats work. That is the idea one gets when visiting thiscatdoesnotexist.com. Just ...
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How Alphabet's Jigsaw think tank is fighting radicalization online
Jigsaw — a unit within Alphabet — is one of the most important projects working towards countering cyber attacks, censorship, ...
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Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity
Anonymous sperm donors have been around for more than a century, but that's soon to change thanks to the modern evolution ...
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OpenAI's new language bot is scary good at predicting text - perhaps too good
OpenAI's new system can generate surprisingly convincing text to follow any sample you throw at it, like a news article headline. ...
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Luckily, AI still needs humans to succeed
Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, ...
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3 types of AI that represent our fears for the future
The AI icon Andrew Ng is quoted as saying, “Artificial intelligence is the new electricity.” For anyone reading this, ...
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Let’s not accidentally build depressed robots
In trying to keep up with the never-ending deluge of news about the forthcoming AI takeover of human society, a talk at ...
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Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest
Nvidia's incredible people-creating AI is now available online. Now you can create startling images of people who do not ...
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AI will soon decide what we eat
Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...
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How to help AI find human trafficking victims
If you could help rescue human trafficking victims by downloading a free app and taking a selfie in the next hotel room you ...
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Blockchain and AI could be a perfect match – here's why
With blockchain technology and AI converging with the greater public there's never been a better time to explore the convergence ...
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Politicians have failed us, it's time for AI to stop school shootings
Thoughts, prayers, and politicians have proven ineffective against the threat of school shootings. It's time to demand schools ...
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A deadly tree disease is devastating the citrus industry – AI can help
The citrus tree is in trouble. Florida's citrus industry has been devastated and California's is next. Artificial intelligence ...
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How AI could help you learn sign language
Sign languages aren’t easy to learn and are even harder to teach. They use not just hand gestures but also mouthings, facial ...
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Devs say real blockchain use is coming, but many feel it's overhyped
We’re likely to see a real-world application of blockchain technology over the next two years – if recent research is ...
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Biased algorithms: here’s a more radical approach to creating fairness
Our lives are increasingly affected by algorithms. People may be denied loans, jobs, insurance policies, or even parole on ...
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This (free) 'future of tech' webinar will get you your next raise
Artificial intelligence, the blockchain, Internet of Things. You know you’ve heard these terms about a thousand times but ...
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How AI will change storytelling and become the next great art form
We spoke to Fable founder and executive producer Edward Saatchi about the future of VR, art, entertainment and AI. Get ready ...
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How DeepMind's AI defeated top players at StarCraft II
In August 2017, DeepMind decided to take on a much bigger and more complex challenge: training an AI to master Starcraft ...
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The challenges of moderating online content with deep learning
Earlier in December, the internet was abuzz with news of Tumblr’s declaration that it would ban adult content on its platform ...
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The security threats of neural networks and deep learning algorithms
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. History ...
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AI isn’t here to steal your job, it’s here to make it better
The belief that AI will displace jobs has been well countered with arguments that AI actually empowers workers to focus on ...
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10 ways to prepare for the AI and automation revolution
Artificial intelligence and automation are no longer the stuff of science fiction; they're a very real and growing ...
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Facial recognition struggles to interpret the emotions of black faces
Facial recognition technology has progressed to a point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type ...
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Why AI can't solve everything
The hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. There seems to be no shortage of sensationalist ...
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YouTube is cracking down on dangerous pranks and stunts like the Bird Box challenge
YouTube has published new policies for its platform that state it won't allow content depicting dangerous pranks and stunts ...
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3D-printed sex robots are cheaper and more lifelike than ever
This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection ...
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Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K
People can pledge $10,000 to be the first person to have sex with a robot at Eve’s Robot Dreams brothel in California after ...
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Deepfakes are being weaponized to silence women — but this woman is fighting back
Noelle Martin, a 24-year old, has had a six-year long battle with deepfakes after an anonymous predators stole and sexually-exploited ...
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Stop worrying about AI taking over the world — it won’t
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...
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US Army's defense of killer robots sounds like the plot to War Games
The US Army has an incongruous message on its development of autonomous weapons systems. Did we learn nothing from the 1980s? ...
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Why researchers want to build an AI that can predict a person’s attractiveness
It's an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” ...
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Personalized marketing will be huge in 2019
Personalization has come a long way since Amazon started leveraging personalized book recommendations in 1999. Half of companies ...
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Nefarious AI creates images of delicious food that doesn't exist
Ever think those pictures of delicious food you see on the internet are too good to be true? What if they were made by an ...
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IBM teaches AI to debate humans by crowdsourcing arguments
IBM's AI wants to take on all-comers in debates on every topic. But, first, its going to crowdsource its arguments from humans ...
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Don’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human language
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s ...
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What Amazon’s Alexa microwave teaches us about interacting with AI assistants
Does it make sense to put a voice assistant in your microwave? Amazon, the leader in smart speakers and voice assistants, ...
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How driverless cars choose who to kill is an ethical dilemma
Slowly but surely, work on self-driving cars is progressing. Crashes still happen, tragic accidents come to pass every once ...
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We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI
“Now that we realize our brains can be hacked, we need an antivirus for the brain.” Those were the words of Yuval Noah ...
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Intel introduces a new project for laptops with 5G and AI
Chipmaker Intel announced a program named "Project Athena" to encourage hardware makers to create laptops with AI and 5G ...
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Here's what AI experts think will happen in 2019
Another year has passed and humanity, for better or worse, remains in charge of the planet. Unfortunately for the robots, ...
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AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity
One could be forgiven for thinking that machines are creative. Numerous artificial intelligence projects appear to demonstrate ...
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Why AI and advertisers should team up to fix fake news
Can technology, and artificial intelligence in particular, be the foil that will prevent the eventual fakenewspocolypse?
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How a group of students discovered the sounds of solar storms
The students discovered a loud crunching noise followed by a series of whistling sounds whose pitch decreased. This event ...
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We’re missing the ‘Skynet’ to complete our connected robot future
Throughout history, innovators have strived to create automata, or robots as we now know them, to augment labor intensive ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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2018 proved that computer vision is the most powerful manifestation of AI
You probably use computer vision every day and don't even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That's ...
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We should teach human rights law to software engineers
Technology dominates a large amount of our lives and software engineers should be taught about human rights laws to avoid ...
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3 ways AI will improve healthcare in 2019
In a recent piece, I explained why AI’s complexity shouldn’t be a deterrent for its adoption. In fact, I went as far ...
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Moving beyond 'all models are wrong' and into rational AI
Can AI ever be "rational"? We examine work discussing the idea of AI that can surpass human's limited ability for rational ...
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Researchers developed an AI robot that can assist with childbirth
Instead of looking up at the sky to see whether you need an umbrella, people increasingly ask virtual assistants such as ...
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Expert says AI-driven sex robots will blow you... away
The only possible culmination of AI research is packing it neatly inside a synthetic body and having sex with it. Or, at ...
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AI sex dolls are just around the corner
The sex doll industry is on the verge of greatness, in its own special way. Soon the Stepford Wives of science fiction will ...
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Microsoft's Hummingbird app uses AI to deliver a personalized news feed
Microsoft has quietly released an AI-based news app called Hummingbird on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. It's currently ...
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5 ways AI can be an ally for human rights over the next decade
Happy Universal Human Rights Day! We came up with five ways we think AI will help us in the fight for all of humanity over ...
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Someone paid $432K for art generated by an open-source neural network
A "painting" that was supposedly created by artificial intelligenc just sold at Christie's for more than $432K. Whoever bought ...
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Nvidia open sources its PhysX physics simulation engine
Nvidia has made its PhysX engine open source, which means anyone can integrate into their games, as well as projects involving ...
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Researchers developed an AI to detect DeepFakes
Earlier this year AI-generated fake videos became an instant scourge as DeepFake, a face-swapping neural network was used ...
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Experts warn DeepFakes could influence 2020 US election
We're only a few months away from the November US midterm elections and DeepFakes is poised to pose a major threat in this ...
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Fairies and deepfakes: a brief history of visual trickery
“Deepfake” is the name being given to videos created through artificially intelligent deep learning techniques. Also ...
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Here’s what your phone can learn from the sound of your voice
It can determine everything from who you are and where you come from, your current location, your gender and age, and what ...
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DeepMind's AlphaZero AI is the new champion in chess, shogi, and Go
DeepMind, has developed an AI named AlphaZero, which can learn and master games like chess, Go, and shogi just through basic ...
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Experts warn AI could hardwire sexism into our future
From Apple's Siri to Amazon's Alexa, voice recognition and AI assistants are typically female by default. Technology isn't ...
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Nvidia's new AI converts real-life videos into 3D renders
We've often wondered while playing games or experiencing virtual reality: how can this be closer to the real world? Nvidia ...
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How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters
Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...
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To achieve ethical AI, we need better training and boundaries
Autonomous decision-making systems are in place already today, including ones that support life-critical scenarios and travel. ...
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Full moon patents: MIT creates glowing plants and Amazon gets better drones
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...
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The difference between AI and machine learning, explained
A while ago, while browsing through the latest AI news, I stumbled upon a company that claimed to use “machine learning ...
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Genies makes realistic looking Bitmoji that can be used in other apps
Genies has launched their new Android and iOS mobile app that lets users create a digital version of themselves that looks ...
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If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
It's been two tumultuous years. Still, it's highly unlikely we've witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, ...
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Email on mobile sucks, but it’ll get better in the next 10 years
The problem is the medium itself - mobile communication has aspired to take over the entirety of our business communication. ...
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Shark S87 robotic cleaning system: A great vacuum with bad AI
I remember a time not so long ago where robot vacuums would set you back $1,000 or more and prove more work than they were ...
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Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...
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AI-algorithms identify pedophiles for the police — here’s how it works
AI is a promising weapon against sexual child abuse.
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AI’s success hinges on new attitudes — not old regulations
We need to stop regulating machine learning models as if they were computer programs, and start thinking about how to use ...
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Amazon’s sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
Amazon has decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated ...
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Chelsea FC is using AI research to improve coaching
My colleagues and I are working with Chelsea FC academy to develop a system to measure these decision-making skills using ...
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AI is the prescription for overworked doctors
AI startup CloudMedX is attempting to change the healthcare paradigm with solutions designed to help physicians treat the ...
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When your boss knows everything about you
Big data and algorithmic decision making have become an indispensable part of the human resources toolkit at companies.
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s ...
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Understanding quantum computers: The noise problem
Quantum computing doesn't have to be harder than getting drunk. That's why we explain one of its biggest problems with beer. ...
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overused term in our language and has many different meanings from mathematics to sewing to machine learning -- ...
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Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship
Wired 25 was attended by some of the biggest names in tech, and Amazon and Google's bosses both took the opportunity to get ...
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How will AI affect my faith and religion in general?
It's thought that AI could have three possible effects on religion: it enhances religion, it becomes religion, or it invalidates ...
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How to filter marketing fluff from startups’ AI promises
For anyone looking to engage with AI startup companies, the prevalence of marketing fluff can make it difficult to move forward. ...
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How to woo your robot recruiter and land your dream job
The way you speak — including the use of positive language — is a key evaluation factor for many AI programs.
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Rapid scaling can ruin your startup — so fix these technical problems now
In the grand scheme of things, everything has been going perfectly to plan. Your product or service launch has been a success, ...
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We need to build AI systems we can trust
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are routinely being used to support human decision-making in a multitude of applications. ...
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Our antidepressants are changing animals' behavior
A recent study has revealed that antidepressants are changing animals' behavior. Female fish fed food spiked with the drug ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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Worried about AI taking over the world? Science isn't
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...
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The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution
From beating us at the game of GO, to recreating paintings by Van Gogh, algorithms are all around us. Artificial Intelligence ...
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AI has already been weaponized – that’s why we need to ban ‘killer robots’
A dividing line is emerging in the debate over so-called killer robots. Many countries want to see new international law ...
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Deebot Ozmo 930 is the robot vacuum you've been waiting for
As smart vacuums go, there's a lot of space between the very best, and the very worst. The Deebot Ozmo 930, by Ecovacs, belongs ...
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Hollywood did a surprisingly good job predicting our drone future
When it comes to predicting the future, Hollywood has turned out to be accurate. Robots and even smartwatches have been in ...
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Google just turned 20 -- time for it to grow up
Google's birthday may be a happy one for shareholders, but the rest of us have plenty of cause for alarm and concern as the ...
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Blockchain doesn't kill people, but smart contracts can, law professor says
Smart contracts, like the ones featured by Ethereum’s blockchain, represent simple machine intelligence, and one academic ...
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Human intelligence and AI are vastly different — so let’s stop comparing them
These days, it’s easy to believe arguments that artificial intelligence has become as smart as the human mind—if not ...
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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees
Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...
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Developing bionics: How IBM is adapting mind-control for accessibility
IBM Research is developing artificial intelligence tools to create a brain-computer interface for people suffering from conditions ...
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Inside Google's plan to stalk your social media accounts
Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn't about another in a failed ...
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An AI that 'hears' machine failure might soon be used for roller coasters
Smart or predictive technologies can change how amusement parks plan maintenance and help prevent unexpected downtime.
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Bitcoin thrown lifeline by SEC Commissioner despite ETF rejection
Another application to allow trade of Bitcoin ETFs has been shot down by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...
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Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data
In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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AI is finding out when the person using your account isn't you
To some, the future of authentication might look a little creepy. But the explosion of data and connectivity will provide ...
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Quick guide to understand the hype around ‘deep learning’
You’ve probably heard the phrase 'deep learning' bandied about in conversation, or maybe you've read about it in a post ...
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The $24 billion chatbot industry sucks because it needs better AI
In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing ...
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This startup can teach a car how to drive itself in 20 minutes
Wayve, a startup out of the UK, is revolutionizing the field of autonomous vehicles by eschewing expensive hardware for refined ...
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This AI uses sight to isolate the sound of specific instruments
If you've ever learnt an instrument, straining to hear what your favorite musician is playing under the din of other players ...
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Scientists created an artificial neural network out of DNA
Caltech researchers created a functioning artificial neural network out of DNA. It can read patterns based on handwritten ...
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7 surprising companies where you can work on cutting-edge AI technology
While automation slowly eats away at human jobs, the demand for AI talent continues to grow at an accelerating pace. Here ...
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AI can now ‘listen’ to machines to tell if they’re breaking down
Sound is everywhere, even when you can’t hear it. It is this noiseless sound, though, that says a lot about how machines ...
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Google Photos now creates shareable GIFs from your videos
Google has updated its Photos service with neat new features today - most notably, the ability to automatically generate ...
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Gain a competitive career advantage and learn the powers of machine learning and data science
With its reach increasing, it’s time for the tech-savvy to start truly understanding the global implications of these technologies ...
