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• Flaw in UK's welfare benefits system is pushing people into poverty, study finds

  A flawed algorithm that determines the social security benefits received by people in the UK receive is causing hunger, debt, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The promise of voice AI lies at work, not at home

  The next frontier for voice AI lies beyond your doorstep. From education to workforce automation to retail, the scope for ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 5 tech trends that will redefine finance in the next 5 years

  As one of the most ancient tenets of human societies, money and finance have been constantly evolving with advances in technology ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Trump's 2016 campaign targeted ads to deter 3.5M Black Americans from voting, leaks reveal

  Team Trump reportedly worked with Cambridge Analytica to dissuade millions of Black voters by targeting them with anti-Hillary ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Here’s what happened when neural networks took on the Game of Life

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  • Ben Dickson

• Amsterdam and Helsinki become first cities to launch AI registers explaining how they use algorithms

  The AI registers track how the municipalities use algorithms in their public services.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Our goal shouldn't be to build merely 'trustworthy' AI

  Mariarosaria Taddeo, Deputy Director of the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab, explains why AI ethics must ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Honey traps and bribery: Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO slapped with 7-year directorship ban

  A British government agency said Alexander Nix had allowed staff to offer clients an array of unethical services.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• GPT-3's bigotry is exactly why devs shouldn't use the internet to train AI

  “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” ...

  • Tristan Greene

• C-list celebs slammed for promoting digital blackface app

  The "stars" posted ads for an app called Gradient that uses AI to modify ethnicity in user photos.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• England and Wales finally get contact-tracing app after months of delays — bit shit, but it'll do

  The revamped contact-tracing app looks a marked improvement on the government's previous efforts, but privacy and effectiveness ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why AI writing assistants are the next generation of style guides

  So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. Style guides have a long ...

  • Jennifer Schmich

• Facebook removes Chinese network of fake accounts that used AI-generated faces

  The operation reportedly used AI-generated Facebook profile photos to spread government propaganda about Beijing's interests ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• YouTube's new AI will block videos that are inappropriate for kids

  YouTube will start using AI to automatically add age restrictions to videos "over the coming months," the company announced ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer parameters

  AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator capable of ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots

  Welcome to the fifth article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of the most popular doomsday ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Majority of Europeans would consider human augmentation, study finds

  Almost two-thirds of Europeans would consider human augmentation, but the north is far more enthusiastic than the south, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Trump accuses Twitter of promoting negative stories about him

  Trump claims Twitter is tweaking the algorithms behind its trending topics to make him look bad. It's surely the only possible ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube's recommendation algorithm

  A new browser add-on called RegretsReporter invites users to report dubious YouTube recommendations so Mozilla can investigate ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• US Library of Congress launches AI tool that lets you search 16 million old newspaper pages for historical images

  The AI lets you search through 16 million historical newspaper pages for images that help explain the stories of the past. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI-powered ship sets sail for sea trials and environmental research missions

  The AI vessel went seaborne on the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage to the New World.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI spots local COVID-19 outbreaks before they've spun out of control

  A new machine learning-based tool identifies potential COVID-19 outbreaks in different US counties by estimating how long ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Sony's new AI agent achieves superhuman Gran Turismo Sport scores

  One of the best things about computers is that they can learn just as much from a simulation as they can from so-called 'real ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This COVID-19 newsletter was written by a human

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Harvard researchers developed an AI to determine how medical treatments affect life spans

  Harvard researchers say the AI accurately forecast the impact of life-extending treatment or diets on mice.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says

  If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network ...

  • The Conversation

• A realistic picture of how AI fits into today’s economy

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Nvidia confirms it's buying Arm for $40B to expand its AI efforts

  Graphics hardware and AI giant Nvidia has confirmed its long-rumored acquisition of UK-based chip design firm Arm in a $40 ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• COVID-19 made your data set worthless. Now what?

  The COVID-19 pandemic has perplexed data scientists and creators of machine learning tools as the sudden and major change in consumer behavior has made predictions based on historical data nearly useless. There is also very little point in trying to train new prediction models during ...

  • Riccardo Volpato

• A beginner's guide to AI: Separating the hype from the reality

  An advanced artificial intelligence created by OpenAI, a company founded by genius billionaire Elon Musk, recently penned an op-ed for The Guardian that was so convincingly human many readers were astounded and frightened. And, ew. Just writing that sentence made me feel like a terrible ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI to take on human pilots in real-world fighter aircraft trials

  The Pentagon will pit AI against human pilots in real fighter aircraft, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper revealed on Wednesday. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Portland becomes first US city to ban companies from using facial recognition in public places

  Portland is the first city in the US to bar both businesses and public agencies from using facial recognition. Will the rest ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• In the summer of 2012, a devastating gun violence epidemic was sweeping through Chicago. / Violence scarred the city of ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New haptic device simulates sense of touch UNSW Sydney engineers have developed a new haptic device that recreates the sense ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How programmers are using AI to make deepfakes — and even detect them

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  • Ben Dickson

• This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?

  Musiio, a startup that uses AI to scan, tag, and categorize music, has deployed its tools to craft the perfect TikTok hit. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• IBM bets on AI and robotics to speed up drug discovery

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  • Ben Dickson

• Watch: This AI mashup of movie characters singing 'All Star' is the best DeepFake ever

  Unpopular opinion: All Star, by Smash Mouth, is the greatest rock song ever created. Okay, that's a lie. But it does make for the most compelling use of DeepFake technology we've ever seen. You simply have not lived until you've seen Gerard Butler as Leonidas and the creepy Agent ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The Guardian's GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype

  The Guardian today published an article purportedly written "entirely" by OpenAI's GPT-3. But the the newspaper's grand ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google blames faulty algorithm for blurring Hong Kong protest graffiti on Street View

  Google blamed its automated systems for obfuscating a banned political slogan and a call for Xi Jinping's death on the Street ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Scientists demonstrate first 'plug and play' brain prosthesis in a paralyzed person

  The participant used the system to control a cursor on a screen using just their brain, and without requiring extensive daily ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI analyzes placentas to predict complications in the next pregnancy

  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have used machine learning to analyze placenta samples for signs of health risks ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Stop confusing facial recognition with facial authentication

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Andrew Shikiar

• Here are the biased algorithms the UK government uses to make high-level decisions

  The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much public anger at its perceived unfairness that it’s widely become known as the “A-levels fiasco.” As a result of the outrage - and the looming threat of ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook unveils prototype AR glasses that give you 'auditory superpowers'

  Facebook has produced a set of AR glasses that give users "perceptual superpowers"  by amplifying what they want to hear ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The fourth generation of AI is here, and it’s called 'Artificial Intuition'

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, but it’s not nearly as new as you ...

  • Mark Gazit

• This AI predicted who will play the next James Bond (Hint: Toss a coin to him)

  AI software firm Largo predicted who will play the next Bond by forecasting which of the contenders could outperform Daniel ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• [Read: We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID]   So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• IBM's AI can out-debate some humans, but how intelligent is it really?

  In late January, a report on IBM’s “Debating AI” revealed that we’re on the cusp of reaching a new milestone in the ...

  • Harith Khawaja

• OpenAI reveals the pricing plans for its API — and it ain't cheap

  OpenAI has revealed the initial pricing plans for its API, which lets developers access the company's powerful GPT-3 language ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• NASA's impressive new AI can predict when a hurricane intensifies

  NASA has developed a machine learning model that, in tests, predicted when a hurricane will intensify more accurately than ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Trump plans to collect DNA, eye scans, and voice prints from immigrants

  The Trump administration's plans to expand the collection of biometric data from immigrants would let the government "surveil ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why you shouldn't mistake AI for automation

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Vanessa Kearney

• Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface

  Scientists have developed a method of turning paper into keyboards that can convert notebooks into music players and make ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Transformative AI, no-code, or low-code? The best approaches to deploying AI in your business

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

  • Paul McNeil

• A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can't imitate human writing

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  • Ben Dickson

• Google says it's going to sell ethics advice to AI companies

  Google's working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions. According to a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• New algorithm can identify misogyny on Twitter

  Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have developed an algorithm that detects tweets ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI tool shows which politicians and issues are getting the most TV time

  Stanford University researchers have created an AI-powered TV analyzer that shows you how much screen time different public ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 8 developer roles that are in high demand in healthcare

  With the demand for tech skills continuously growing across the board, there’s no shortage of new domains where software ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This AI makes peanut butter and banana sandwiches that are fit for the King

  Data scientist Ethan Rosenthal has developed an AI system that calculates the optimal arrangements of banana and bread.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI Jesus will help you embrace the apocalypse

  The AI spat out some baffling new verses after studying the King James Bible.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New microscopic robots could one day be injected into human bodies

  Scientists from Cornell University made more than a million of the robots from four inches of silicon.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Hey employers, forcing your machine learning hires to have fancy degrees is dumb

  So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• YouTube removes record number of videos after increasing role of AI in content review

  YouTube says it took down a record number of videos in the second quarter of this year due to an increased use of AI in ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Will the UK's housebuilding algorithm join the government's growing AI graveyard?

  British councils have joined the immigration department and exam boards in ditching algorithms. The government's housebuilding ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Practical Natural Language Processing: A must-read for anyone who wants to become seriously involved in NLP

  So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Two left feet? Facebook’s new AI dance choreographer can teach you some brand new moves

  Facebook's AI boffins have developed a new system that creates original dance routines for any music that you feed it.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 5 esoteric science papers to take your mind off the global hellscape

  Experiencing 2020 from the POV of a rational-minded person is exhausting and scary. It sometimes feels as though we've ended ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Elon Musk may announce human trials at the Neuralink demo. Here's why that's awesome

  I'm reticent to use the phrase “iPhone moment for brain surgery” in the first sentence here, but Elon Musk and the team ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI just found 50 new planets in a huge NASA dataset

  An algorithm has confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world-first for machine learning in astronomy.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why the nonprofit OpenAI made GPT-3 a commercial product

  So you like our media brand Neural? You should join our Neural event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This Philosopher AI has its own existential questions to answer

  A new text-generating system called the Philosopher AI will answer your questions about the meaning of life — unless they're ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID

  In a globalized world, we’ve become accustomed to doing business, buying products, and traveling across the globe at lightning ...

  • Andrea Hak

• An AI just embarrassed the US Air Force in a virtual dogfight

  The battle was the grand finale of DARPA's AlphaDogfight Trials, a series of virtual dogfights that sought to test how AI ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How will GPT-3 change our lives?

  “GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It’s something else: a statistically abstracted representation ...

  • Fiona J McEvoy

• How Intel's neuromorphic chip could make wheelchair-mounted robotic arms more accessible

  Intel scientists are using neuromorphic computing to power a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm that helps patients with spinal ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The AI version of the Weeknd and I are now BFFs — deal with it

  Spotify has created an AI-powered microsite that lets you hear the Weeknd's thoughts on your listening habits. I checked ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared

  Human-level performance. Human-level accuracy. Those are terms you hear a lot from companies developing artificial intelligence ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Vroom vroom: AI reveals F1's fastest drivers of the past 40 years

  F1 and AWS have used an algorithm to rank the fastest drivers of all time, but not everyone is convinced by the system's ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How Intel helped give the 'world's first' cyborg a voice

  When Dr Peter Scott-Morgan was diagnosed with MND, he devised a plan to become a cyborg, through a combination of AI, robotics, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New polymer coating could help brains merge with machines — cyborgs incoming?

  Scientists have developed a new bio-synthetic coating for electronic components that could help merge AI with the human brain. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How IoT revolutionized medical care during the pandemic

  Over the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into an unprecedented situation. It even gave birth ...

  • Ricky Philip

• England ditches its shitty exam result algorithm after it penalized poorer students

  English exam results will now be based on teacher predictions after the government scrapped a controversial algorithm that ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood

  Lincolnshire police plan to test facial recognition and behavioral tech that infers people's moods and expressions by analyzing ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook algorithm 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content, study finds

  Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a counter-extremist group, found Facebook’s algorithm recommends ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google Sheets can improve your app with machine learning — here's how

  In this post, I’ll show you how to use beginner-friendly ML tools – Semantic Reactor and TensorFlow.js – to build an ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• This AI simulation of Roger Federer helps him overcome his Wimbledon SHAME

  A new AI system generates stunningly realistic controllable graphics of Roger Federer and his tennis rivals to recreate classic ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• England's new contact-tracing app has a big distance problem

  Trials of England's latest contact-tracing app begin today, but tests show that the system struggles to precisely measure ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Algorithm downgrades nearly 40% of English exam results, hitting poorer students hardest

  An algorithm that determined A-level grades in England has downgraded 39% of predicted results -- with disadvantaged students ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• GPT-3 writes climate change protest letters to Trump, Xi, and Putin

  A new AI art project uses GPT-3 to generate epistles about climate change on behalf of planet Earth.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to protect AI systems against image-scaling attacks

  We usually don’t expect the image of a teacup to turn into a cat when we zoom out. But in the world of artificial intelligence ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G 'red-handed'

  Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site, using Morse code to catch the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What herd immunity looks like in a maximum security prison

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook blames COVID-19 for reduced action on suicide, self-injury, and child exploitation content

  Facebook says that COVID-19 has hindered its ability to remove posts about suicide, self-injury, and child nudity and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• UK court rules police use of facial recognition was 'unlawful'

  In a landmark decision, judges said South Wales Police's use of facial recognition breached human rights and data protection ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers use AI to determine which face masks work best for COVID-19

  A technique developed at Duke University measures which face masks best protect against COVID-19 by counting the droplets ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• A US Air Force pilot is taking on AI in a virtual dogfight — here’s how to watch it

  An AI-controlled fighter jet will battle a US Air Force pilot in a simulated dogfight that's the final trial of DARPA's AlphaDogfight ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Why 'human-like' is a low bar for most AI projects

  Show me a human-like machine and I'll show you a faulty piece of tech. The AI market is expected to eclipse $300 billion ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The "overwhelming whiteness" of AI is erasing people of color from visions of our future, researchers have warned. The ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Depictions of AI are overwhelmingly white -- and that's a serious problem

  Cambridge University researchers warn portrayals of AI as white are erasing people of color from visions of the future and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This startup is fighting air pollution with AI

  This year’s Startup Games event, from Germany’s Digital Hub Initiative and hosted by TNW, welcomed ten of Germany’s ...

  • Andrea Hak

• 'World's first' AI-generated arts festival program opens this Friday

  An AI system called ImprovBot has created a range of new shows for a virtual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn

  Deepfake videos and audio are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Roborock's S6 MaxV robot vacuum is too smart to do the dirty work

  I haven't had to do much hoovering over the past three months — and I've got the Roborock S6 MaxV to thank for that. But ...

  • Mix

• How to name your baby using machine learning

  When I was young, I always hated being named Dale. This is mostly because my primary image of what Dales looked like was ...

  • Dale Markowitz

• This app uses AI to make your selfies look fabulously ridiculous

  Artificial intelligence has emerged in the past decade as a bedrock technology. We use it for important endeavors such as ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists use AI to predict what makes a successful relationship

  A new AI study led by Western University uses machine learning to work out what makes a happy relationship.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI turns your home videos into cute cartoons

  Cartoonizer is based on a research paper by University of Tokyo researchers Xinrui Wang and Jinze Yu. It joins a growing ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This spooky deepfake AI mimics dozens of celebs and politicians

  From Donald Trump and Barack Obama to John Oliver and Tupac, Vocodes can generate eerily realistic deepfake soundbites of ...

  • Mix

• TikTok owner ByteDance's AI chief to leave as US pressure rises

  ByteDance's head of AI research is leaving the Beijing-based firm amid mounting scrutiny of the company's video app TikTok. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI generates hilariously realistic startup acquisition announcements

  The Acquisition Blog Post Generator leverages AI to create realistically sounding startup acquisition announcements — and ...

  • Mix

• A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Humanity joins the hivemind

  Welcome to the latest article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we’ll examine some of the most popular ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI tool can identify individual birds with 90% accuracy

  An AI tool trained on images of great tits, sociable weavers, and zebra finches could accurately identify the birds in new ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Here's why AI didn't save us from COVID-19

  When the COVID-19 pandemic began we were all so full of hope. We assumed our technology would save us from a disease that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This AI uses emoji to protect BLM protestors from facial recognition

  Stanford Machine Learning researchers have develop an anonymization tool called the BLMPrivacyBot that covers the faces of ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook built a powerful AI model to simulate entire social media networks in action

  When it comes to live-fire high-wire acts in the tech industry, there can be few endeavors more daunting than executing a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Elon Musk claims his brain chip can stimulate your pleasure center

  Neuralink's mission has never quite been clear. We know it's working on a chip designed to be surgically inserted into the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• COVID-19 canceled doctors' office visits — these startups are bringing the doctor to you

  What do you do when you can’t go to the doctor’s office? As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced people around the world ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Everything you need to know about transfer learning in AI

  Today, artificial intelligence programs can recognize faces and objects in photos and videos, transcribe audio in real-time, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Artificial stupidity

  Welcome to the latest article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we’ll examine some of the most popular ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI researchers say we've squeezed nearly as much out of modern computers as we can

  Deep learning's reached the end of its rope. At least according to a group of researchers from MIT, Underwood International ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How an AI graphic designer convinced clients it was human

  Art. Lebedev Studio has built an AI designer that creates original company logos. Sergey Kulinkovich, the company's art director, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI spit outs endless new My Little Pony characters

  An AI system called This Pony Does Not Exist uses a generative neural network (GAN) to create infinite new pony portraits. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• An introduction on how to export and import JavaScript modules

  There seems to be some confusion when it comes to JavaScript modules. Some developers are unsure of how they work and why ...

  • Live Code Stream

• Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people

  These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and ...

  • Ben Dickson

• What is the difference between artificial neural networks and biological brains?

  What is the master algorithm that allows humans to be so efficient at learning things? That is a question that has perplexed ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Here's what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding

  The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human ...

  • Ben Dickson

• AI finds 250 foreign stars that migrated to our galaxy

  Astronomers have used deep learning to discover 250 new stars in the Milky Way, which they believe were born outside the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How Barcelona is using AI on its subway trains to curb spread of COVID-19

  This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...

  • Cities Today

• Can AI convincingly answer existential questions?

  A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to existential questions than history's most influential ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New AI project captures Jane Austen's thoughts on social media

  A new AI project from magician and novelist Andrew Mayne creates simulated conversations with historical figures including ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics

  A study by data science firm Anaconda found a "concerning" absence of AI ethics initiatives in both academia and industry. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall

  The White House has struck a deal with Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the US-Mexico ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• MIT removes huge dataset that teaches AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

  MIT has taken offline a massive and highly-cited dataset that trained AI systems to use racist and misogynistic terms to ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Inside China's plan to lead the world in AI

  China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still ...

  • The Conversation

• How Facebook's Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence

  Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told TNW about the latest developments at FAIR, the social network's research lab. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Python is great, but stop using it for every damn project

  Recently, I had a discussion on Reddit about why someone would opt to use Python over other programming languages. The discussion ...

  • Live Code Stream

• MIT's coronavirus-killer robot uses UV-C light to disinfect warehouses

  A new MIT robot that uses UV light to kill the coronavirus could be used to disinfect warehouses, schools, and offices. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What is the AI brain drain?

  Twenty years ago, the people interested in artificial intelligence research were mostly confined in universities and non-profit ...

  • Ben Dickson

• What is generative adversarial network (GAN) — and how it makes computers creative

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

  • Ben Dickson

• Research: Artificial neural networks are more similar to the brain than we thought

  This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial ...

  • Ben Dickson

• This AI detects political affiliation just by reading tweets about COVID-19

  A new AI tool has shown how fractured the rhetoric of politicians has been on COVID-19 by analyzing their tweets about the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What you should know about investing in AI during economic downturn

  Over the past few months, the COVID-19 virus has had a huge impact on the globe. As of April 28, according to the World Health ...

  • Ryohei Fujimaki

• Our fragile 40-years-old Banking infrastructure can only be saved with AI

  IT failures are more common than we think. Admitting that you have a problem means there is a risk in doing business with ...

  • Cuneyt Buyukbezci

• NASA enlists AI in the hunt for ET

  The ExoMars mission to find life on Mars moved closer to take-off this week after NASA unveiled the first results of an ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How machine learning finds anomalies to catch financial cybercriminals

  In the last few months, millions of dollars have been stolen from unemployment systems during this time of immense pressure ...

  • Igor Kaufman and Ellery Galvin

• Stop calling it bias. AI is racist

  Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested earlier this year in Detroit, Michigan on suspicion of stealing five watches from ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia team up to develop next-gen autonomous car computers

  This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information ...

  • Clean Fleet Report

• Trump's latest immigration ban is bad news for US AI ambitions

  Trump's suspension of the H-1B visa program for highly-skilled workers will cut off US access to international AI talent. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

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  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI turns your blurry photos into creepy HD faces

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  • Thomas Macaulay

• Sci-fi perpetuates a misogynistic view of AI -- Here's how we can fight it

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  • Thomas Macaulay

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  • Thomas Macaulay

• Microsoft's AI editor uses photo of wrong mixed-race popstar in story about racism

  Microsoft's AI editor uses photo of wrong mixed-race popstar in story about racism

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI conference NeurIPS extends paper submission deadline amid BLM protests

  The deadline for AI mega-conference NeurIPS has been extended by 48 hours, to give people affected by protests in the US ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New AR app will let you model a virtual companion on anyone you want

  A smartphone app called Hybri is adding an unsettling touch of reality to VR, by scanning photos of real people onto an avatar's ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

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  • Cities Today

• US joins G7 AI alliance to counter China's influence

  The US is joining the rest of the G7 in the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, in an effort to contain China's ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI algorithms are puzzled by our online behavior during the coronavirus pandemic

  At some point, every one of us has had the feeling that online applications like YouTube, Amazon, and Spotify seem to know ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Scientists are using AI to predict which lung cancer patients will relapse

  A new AI tool could predict which lung cancer patients will suffer a relapse by analyzing genetic data and pathology images ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers use drones and AI to detect Soviet 'butterfly' landmines

  Scientists have developed a method of automatically detecting hidden landmines by using AI to scan images captured by drones ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Nvidia teaches AI to create new version of Pac-Man just by watching gameplay

  Nvidia researchers have used generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create a new version of Pac-Man without studying ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Researchers used AI to crack Microsoft Outlook's CAPTCHA

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  • Mix

• Scientists claim they can teach AI to judge 'right' from 'wrong'

  Scientists claim they can "teach" an AI moral reasoning by training it to extract ideas of right and wrong from texts

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google pledges not to build more custom AI for fossil fuel extraction

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  • Thomas Macaulay

• New AI from DeepMind and Google can detect a common cause of blindness

  DeepMind and Google Health have developed an AI that can predict who'll get one of the world's most common causes of blindness. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Democrats demand answers from Google on diversity training cuts

  Democrats in the US House of Representatives have demanded answers from Google on reported cuts to its diversity and inclusion ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI tool automatically identifies different types of brain injury

  Scientists from Imperial College London and Cambridge have developed an AI tool that can identify different brain injuries ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• In the AI era, universities need to strengthen students' creativity

  Advances in artificial intelligence in the early 2010s, particularly in deep learning, triggered a new wave of panic and ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Uber introduces AI to make sure its drivers wear face masks

  Uber is making face masks mandatory in the US, Canada, India, and most of Europe and Latin America -- and will use AI to ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Confetti, koalas, and candles of love: Backstage at Eurovision's AI song contest

  Eurovision may have been cancelled by the coronavirus, but an AI song contest went ahead in the place. Here's how it went ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI tool predicts who's got COVID-19 without testing

  A new AI diagnostic tool trained on crowdsourced data from the COVID Symptom Study app predicts who's got COVID-19 without ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI spits out an infinite feed of fake furry portraits

  It started with delicious AI-generated food that didn't exist, then it was people, then it was cats, Airbnbs, memes, feet ...

  • Mix

• Corpse-detecting robots will use AI to recover bodies from the Korean War

  South Korea is developing autonomous robots that scan underground the DMZ to recover the remains of soldiers killed in the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Computer vision is transforming healthcare with rapid cell counting and patient identification

  AI in healthcare has been a hot topic for years and with advances in deep learning, it’s being successfully implemented ...

  • Jeffrey Goldsmith

• Democrats counter Trump's fake coronavirus news with AI that fought ISIS propaganda

  An anti-Trump PAC is using AI originally designed to tackle Islamic State propaganda to counter coronavirus disinformation ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Is AI already conscious?

  The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Streaming service Deezer built an AI to catch the explicit lyrics human censors miss

  Streaming service Deezer has developed an AI technique that automatically detects explicit lyrics -- just by analyzing ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic

  BenevolentAI's discovery of a potential coronavirus treatment show's that drug discovery is one application of AI that's ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The Artist in the Machine: The bigger picture of AI and creativity

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  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook's teaching AI to lie like a human

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  • Tristan Greene

• This AI-driven meme generator delivers the avant-garde content you need

  Are memes art? And are computers capabale of producing it? The answer is yes, because we've discovered this AI meme generator. ...

  • Callum Booth

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  • Tristan Greene

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  • Tristan Greene

• UK spies must ramp up use of AI to fight new threats, says report

  UK spies must use AI to counter cyber attacks and augment intelligence analysis, according to a new study commissioned by eavesdropping agency GCHQ ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This AI wrote such emo lyrics that humans thought it was My Chemical Romance

  AI lyrics created by a  text-generating machine called GPT-2 are so emo that people think they were written by My Chemical ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI study of Twitter bots reveals boredom is what separates us from machines

  Our horrible attention spans distinguish us from bots, according to University of Southern California study of human and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI isn't going to save you from yourselves

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  • Tristan Greene

• The NHS is using AI to predict coronavirus ventilator and ICU demand

  The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is using AI to predict demand for intensive care beds and ventilators during the ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Everything you need to know about narrow AI

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  • Ben Dickson

• This AI-powered port in Japan prevents ship collisions better than humans

  Computer manufacturer Fujitsu and the Japan Coast Guard have successfully proven the effectiveness of AI in preventing collisions ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• AI, you have some explaining to do

  You never know what goes on behind closed doors. When it comes to your next-door neighbors, maybe it’s better that way. ...

  • Thor Schueler

• Check out these gorgeous visualizations of popular neural networks

  OpenAI today released 'Microscope,' a database of complex AI visualizations designed to aid researchers in developing techniques ...

  • Tristan Greene

• MIT's AI-powered device lets doctors monitor coronavirus patients remotely

  A new device that uses AI to monitor coronavirus symptoms is helping doctors treat patients beyond the reach of infection ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google's AutoML Zero lets the machines create algorithms to avoid human bias

  It looks like Google's working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language 'AutoML.' According ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How AI helps scientists find reliable coronavirus research

  As the world unites in the fight against COVID-19, scientists and researchers around the world are studying the novel coronavirus ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google Duplex arrives in Australia, Canada, and the UK

  Google Duplex, an AI phone assistant, is now available in Australia, Canada, and the UK, according to the company's support ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• AI predicts where coronavirus cases will spike next

  Six regions of the UK will soon suffer coronavirus outbreaks, according to an AI that predicts where cases will spike next ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• These AIs think they can translate your dog’s barks

  If you're worried about what's going on inside your dog's mind, a new AI system will tell you -- just by listening to it ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Will product designers survive the AI revolution?

  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the ...

  • Batsirai Madzonga

• AI predicts results of English Premier League matches canceled by coronavirus

  Opta has finally answered the question plaguing every soccer fan's mind: How would my team have done if coronavirus hadn't ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook apologizes after AI blocks posts about DIY coronavirus masks

  Facebook's AI moderators claimed another innocent victim this week when an algorithm blocked content on DIY masks that protect ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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," ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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, ...

  • Bret Greenstein

• 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 ...

  • Jori Hamilton

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 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 ...

  • Sunil Kumar Jha

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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, ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google launches TensorFlow for quantum computers

  Google today launched TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for prototyping quantum machine learning models. Quantum ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This stance-detecting AI will help us fact-check fake news

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  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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% ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Get ready for the emergence of AI-as-a-Service

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  • Ji Li

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Aeon

• 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. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • James Warner

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ben Goertzel and Alexey Potapov

• AI’s key to true intelligence is learning how to forget

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  • Marc Vontobel

• Artificial intelligence: How to measure the 'I' in AI

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  • Ben Dickson

• Text this number for an infinite feed of AI-generated feet

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  • Mix

• 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, ...

  • Ira van Keulen and Rinie van Est

• Samsung is working on lifelike AI-powered avatars to fill in for humans

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• How robots, AI, and drones are changing toy manufacturing

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  • The Conversation

• Google's new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Researchers were about to solve AI's black box problem, then the lawyers got involved

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  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Alice Bonasio

• A tech apocalypse is inevitable without the humanities

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  • The Conversation

• These prosthetics designers harness AI to assist India’s amputees

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  • Ranjit Devraj

• Why AI could benefit from seeing the world as kids do

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  • James Warner

• Why researchers should make sure robots don’t become weapons

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  • The Conversation

• Instagram's AI now warns you if your caption is offensive

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  • Rachel Kaser

• Here's what AI experts think will happen in 2020

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  • Tristan Greene

• Your home isn’t smart, it’s just connected — here’s why

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  • Rafi Zauer

• Here’s how to spot legitimate AI from marketing fluff

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  • Tim Velasquez

• 2020 will be the year AI kills company dashboards

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  • Derek Steer

• Why two world-renowned AI experts might have to eat a million Tesla robo-taxis in 2020

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  • Tristan Greene

• Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google

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  • Tristan Greene

• WhatsApp will sue businesses for abusing bulk messaging

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  • Napier Lopez

• Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more personalized

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  • James Warner

• AI creativity will bloom in 2020, all thanks to true web machine learning

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  • Maciej Zasada

• What will happen to our memory if we let computers remember everything for us?

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  • Aeon

• This is what the AI industry will look like in 2020

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  • Jason T Widjaja

• What AI analysis of placentas can teach us about childbirth and health

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  • James Warner

• 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.

  • Henk Muller

• Nvidia built an AI that creates 3D models from 2D images

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  • Tristan Greene

• Why China's 'military AI budget' is irrelevant (spoiler: all AI is military AI)

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  • Tristan Greene

• How the 'bigger is better' mentality is damaging AI research

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  • Ben Dickson

• Watch: Performance-enhancing AI could change baseball forever

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  • Tristan Greene

• Regional strengths are shaping AI’s evolution in Asia

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  • Binary District Journal

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  • Cara Curtis

• How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics

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  • Tristan Greene

• Australia's new AI system will catch drivers using their phones

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  • Ivan Mehta

• World champion Go player retires: AI 'cannot be defeated'

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  • Tristan Greene

• How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?

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  • Aeon

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Aeon

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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, ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Thomas

• 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. ...

  • Flynn Coleman

• 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 ...

  • Sumit Dagar

• 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, ...

  • Aimee Pearcy

• 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 that's illegal at the federal level, where Musk holds a security clearance – he's making outlandish claims about the capabilities of a brain chip in development ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Asheesh Mehra

• 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. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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. ...

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• Watch this AI cop car fight an AI Jeep

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• How AI could help dementia patients live more independently

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

  • The Conversation

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • The Conversation

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

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

  • The Conversation

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Mix

• This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really 'learning' science?

  Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Elon Musk seemed unhinged 'debating' AI with Jack Ma

  Tech moguls Elon Musk and Jack Ma took the stage last week at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China ...

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

  In the past couple of years, every major Android phone has had a night mode feature. While we might see Apple bring a night ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Developer who started a church to worship AI indicted for stealing AI

  Anthony Levandowski, a former employee at Google sister company Waymo, today was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition

  Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• Dear Netflix: Please ditch the algorithm and focus on human-curated 'Collections'

  Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How an AI in China helped nab a suspected murderer - with a face scan

  We've read plenty of stories of how AI can be horrible, but it can also be surprisingly useful. According to a report by ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• [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. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague

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

  • Már Másson Maack

• [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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NotJordanPeterson lets you generate uncannily realistic Jordan Peterson sound bites

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

  • Mix

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

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

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • Andrea Hak

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Matthew Hughes

• AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have

  Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Skills every ambitious tech professional will need in 2020

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

  • Anna Johansson

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

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

  • The Conversation

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Binary District Journal

• This AI detects 11 types of emotions from a selfie

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• Watch Samsung's AI render photorealistic scenes from video

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

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Ben Dickson

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

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

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook releases AI-powered tools to map the world

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Bryan Clark

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Mix

• This site turns your selfies into Renaissance portraits with AI

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

  • Napier Lopez

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Mix

• This AI magically removes moving objects from videos

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

  • Mix

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

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

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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

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

  • Mix

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

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

  • Rachel Kaser

• Why empathy won’t get automated anytime soon

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

  • Qamar Zaman

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

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

  • Alex Adamopoulos

• Hey look, AI ruined Garfield

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

  • Georgina Ustik

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

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

  • Alex Bates

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

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

  • Eric Murphy

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Zona Kostic

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• Virginia outlaws deepfakes in its efforts to curb revenge porn

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

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• [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 ...

  • Tony Aube

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

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

  There's no positive use case for developing an app with the sole purpose of using AI to predict what a clothed woman, in ...

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Isaac Ben-Israel

• MIT built a neural network to understand pizza

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Bryan Clark

• The unforeseen trouble AI is now causing

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

  • Jordan French

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

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

  • Henry Ajder

• Breakthrough research demonstrates AI can predict a psychotic break

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon

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

  • Binary District Journal

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Developers: Meet your new AI intern

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

  • Ian Huston

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed

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

  • Gwen van der Zwan

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• This feminist chatbot challenges AI bias in voice assistants

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

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • Ed Sappin

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• How to remove hiring bias through gamification

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

  • Andrea Hak

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Bryan Clark

• [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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

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

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

  • Ailsa Sherrington

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived

  For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...

  • Ben Dickson

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• Microsoft's AI hallucinates unique whisky flavors

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • David Canellis

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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

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

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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

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

  • Bryan Clark

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • David Canellis

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 5 ways AI is revolutionizing the world of finance

  There are plenty of reasons to believe artificial intelligence will spur the next revolution in the way we handle wealth ...

  • Ben Dickson

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • David Canellis

• [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.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

  In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...

  • Ben Dickson

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

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

  • Alex Bates

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Andrea Hak

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

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

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• IBM launches blockchain skills academy with University of Louisville

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

  • Matthew Beedham

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• Emotionally intelligent AI will respond to how you feel

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

  • Alex Potamianos

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

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

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Cara Curtis

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Binary District Journal

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

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

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

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

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

  • Drew Burns

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

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

  • Matthew Beedham

• 5 European companies that are (really) advancing AI

  There’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending ...

  • Ben Dickson

• [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 ...

  • Elad Walach

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

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

  • Neil C. Hughes

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

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

  • Binary District Journal

• AI can be trusted to take our 911 calls

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

  • Nathaniel Gates

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

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

  • Ivan Mehta

• What can psychopaths teach us about AI?

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

  • Tristan Greene

• AI can help fight climate change by optimizing energy efficiency

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

  • Már Másson Maack

• This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing

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

  • Callum Booth

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

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

  • Tristan Greene

• Deepmind teaches AI to follow navigational directions like humans

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

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias

  Predictive policing exacerbates inherent systemic bias, covers up unlawful policing, and perpetuates misinformation. It's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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 ...

  • Daniel Gabay

• 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, ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• 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 ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 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, ...

  • James Freeze

• 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. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

• 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, ...

  • Gant Laborde

• 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