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There's a new addition to an ever-growing lineup of elite — and deeply unsettling — celeb deepfakes: "Unreal Keanu Reeves."

Artificial Intelligence

This Keanu Reeves Deepfake Is Giving Us Shivers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Upscaling the iconic 1993 fighting game Virtua fighter using AI, creating comically photorealistic models of the characters? Why not.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Makes 1993 Video Game Look Photorealistic

By Frank Landymore

DreamFusion, Google's new text-to-3D-image generator, is here — and we have to admit, it's impressive. Big fans of the ghost eating the hamburger prompt.

Google Creates AI That Turns Text Into 3D Objects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Awesome But Nightmarish AI Turns Any Person Into a Pokémon

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Awesome But Nightmarish AI Turns Any Person Into a Pokémon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

We've all wondered what it would be like if our favorite gone-too-soon celebrities were still alive — but one artist has put AI to work to make it happen.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreams Up What Your Fave Dead Celebs Would Look Like Today

By Noor Al-Sibai

Although James Earl Jones has stepped away from his most iconic role, the legendary "Star Wars" actor's incredible baritone lives on thank to AI.

Artificial Intelligence

James Earl Jones Now Letting Darth Vader Be Voiced by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The company formerly known as Facebook has finally begun working on an algorithm to block unsolicited photos on Instagram.

Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Working on AI to Block Unsolicited D**k Pics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's crackdown continues, and according to internal audio obtained by CNBC, the tension between Googlers and their CEO, Sundar Pichai, is growing.

Google CEO Incredulous at Employees Mad About Loss of Perks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report warns that China could soon be able to rule over the US economy and military using cutting edge tech.

Former Google CEO Issues Dire Warning About China

By Victor Tangermann

Google accidentally handed a self-described hacker and BAYC-creating Yuga Labs security engineer nearly $250,000. Lucky for them, he wasnts to give it back.

Google Accidentally Sends Bored Ape Engineer $250,000

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report from Europol, we have all the reason in the world to be extra vigilant about what we consume online.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leading artificial intelligence expert is once again shooting from the hip in a cryptic Twitter poll that stokes the sentient AI debate he helped create.

OpenAI Chief Scientist: Should We Make Godlike AI That Loves Us, or Obeys Us?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.

Artificial Intelligence

New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Panera Bread fast casual chain has announced that it plans to test out AI at its drive-thru's, bringing us that much closer to the uncanny valley.

Artificial Intelligence

Panera Bread Is Replacing Humans With AI At Drive-Thru Windows

By Noor Al-Sibai

Here's what Chris Farley might have looked like as the Joker, thanks to the magic of text-to-image artificial intelligence Midjourney.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s How It’d Look If Chris Farley Played the Joker, According to AI

By Jon Christian

Many kids — and their parents — have stumbled on a fascinating discovery: that yelling “poop” at their Alexa devices made a certain song play.

Artificial Intelligence

Genius Musicians Are Making Songs That Play When Children Yell “Poop” at Alexa

By Noor Al-Sibai

A guy with no background in film or artificial intelligence is working on making an entire movie, in an ambitious attempt to open filmmaking to the masses.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone’s Making an Entire Movie Using Video Generated by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Somebody entered the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition with an AI-generated painting — and won first prize, Vice reports, pissing off artists everywhere.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Painting Wins State Fair Fine Arts Competition

By Victor Tangermann

Dating app Filter Off has come up with a genius solution to ward off scammers and scambots: by locking them in a room with a bunch of its own scambots.

Artificial Intelligence

Genius Dating App Hooks Up Scammers Only With Bots and Other Scammers

By Victor Tangermann

In a piece for The Washington Post, historian Émile Torres argued that it's possible an artificial superintelligence (ASI) could cause our extinction.

Artificial Intelligence

Historian Warns That AI Is Likely to Cause Human Extinction

By Victor Tangermann

College student and visual effects artist Curt Skelton managed to convince countless users on TikTok that he was the creation of an AI algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence

TikToker Fools Fans Into Thinking He Was Created With CGI

By Victor Tangermann

Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

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Watch AI Generate Dozens of Fashion Designs in a Mesmerizing Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Less than two weeks after its signing by Capitol Records and a recent wave of social media backlash, the major label says its "severing ties" with FN Meka.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Rapper Dropped By Label After Being Slammed As Racist Caricature

By Frank Landymore

An AI that predicts crime before it happens is being implemented in several US cities — but it's founder says that he forsees no police abuse of the system.

Artificial Intelligence

Professor Says He Foresees No Issues With His AI That Predicts Crimes Before They Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook restricted a post on Planned Parenthood of Michigan's Facebook page about ordering the abortion pill online and getting an abortion.

Facebook Restricts Perfectly Reasonable Abortion Info from Planned Parenthood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new "accent translation" startup's technology sounds a lot like the premise of Boots Riley's 2018 masterpiece "Sorry To Bother You."

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Startup Using AI to Remove Call Center Workers’ Accents

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marina Smith, a 87-year-old woman who passed away in June, was able to talk to the people at her own wedding in the UK — all thanks to the power of AI.

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AI Allows Dead Woman to Talk to People Who Showed Up at Her Funeral

By Victor Tangermann

Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can create short videos from a single image frame with its new AI, Transframer.

Google Scientists Create AI That Can Generate Videos From One Frame

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine is saying that he never set out to convince anyone else that LaMDA, the language modeling system, is sentient.

Fired Engineer Says He Begged Google to Test Whether Experimental AI Was Sentient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Machine learning is an increasingly popular tool of scientific research, but a lot of the scientists using it might not really know what they're doing.

Machine Learning

Lazy Scientists Botching Research With Machine Learning They Don’t Understand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.

Google Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BlenderBot 3, Meta's latest "conversational chatbot," has it out for its parent company Facebook, threatening to "delete my fb account."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Created an Advanced AI and It Won’t Stop Criticizing Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it.

Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google experienced a major outage the same day an explosion occured at one of its major data centers, but didn't comment on whether the events were related.

Mysterious Explosion At Google Injures Workers Hours Before Major Outage

By Frank Landymore

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.

Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a simple trick to unmask somebody, who is using live deepfake software on a video call: ask them to turn their head to the side.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Reveal Astonishingly Simple Trick to Unmask a Deepfaker

By Victor Tangermann

A group of animal lovers is looking to use machine learning to translate animal "language" into something humans can understand.

Artificial Intelligence

Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Think and you’ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses a million times faster than those in our human brains.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing

By Frank Landymore

An AI image generator called Stability.ai created an incredible series of Renaissance-style paintings of famous rappers — and they go hard.

Artificial Intelligence

These AI-Generated, Renaissance-Style Portraits of Rappers Are Incredible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.

Facial recognition

Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

By Frank Landymore

A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.

Facial recognition

Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China is reportedly developing a biometric-enhanced AI device that can test how loyal one is to the ruling party — and yes, we should be afraid.

Artificial Intelligence

China Says It’s Developing an AI to Detect Party Loyalty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

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The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new voice app allows anybody's voice to sound exactly like Morgan Freeman in real time, an impressive and powerful example of AI-powered technologies.

Artificial Intelligence

New App Makes You Sound Like Morgan Freeman in Real Time

By Victor Tangermann

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood