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Former US general Stanley McChrystal warns that AI with the power to launch lethal strikes is inevitable, even if the idea is frightening.

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Former General Warns About Rise of Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with the Financial Times, the Pentagon's former chief software officer said that he resigned in protest of slow innovation in the US.

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Pentagon Tech Chief Quits in Frustration, Says US Has No “Fighting Chance” Against China

By Jon Christian

Google is about to launch a "wildfire" layer on Google Maps that shows whether the surrounding area is currently burning.

Google Maps Now Lets You Know if Your Route Is on Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

A Pennsylvania mom was arrested after she allegedly created deepfakes of her daughter's cheerleading rivals to sully their reputation.

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Mom Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Frame Daughter’s Cheerleading Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.

Watch a Raven Attack a Google Coffee Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Dubbed "Rozy," a CGI influencer was created by Korean media company Sidus Studio X to sell products and services for more than 100 brands.

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This CGI Influencer Is Shilling For More Than 100 Brands

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to come up with a pair of smart sun glasses that absolutely nobody asked for.The design is as creepy as it is familiar.

Facebook: Taping Over Camera LED on Our Glasses is a TOS Violation

By Victor Tangermann

Fearing potential misuse, OpenAI cut off the customizeable chatbot Samantha, which had been used to emulate a dead fiancée, from its algorithm GPT-3.

OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-3 Bot Used To Emulate Dead Fiancée

By Dan Robitzski

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."

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Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”

By Tony Ho Tran

The Dead Internet Theory states that the Internet as we know it actually died sometime between 2016 and 2017 — and is now filled with mostly bots.

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Creepy Conspiracy Theory Claims the Internet “Died” Years Ago

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."

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Elon Musk: Tesla Making a Robot Because “Robots Are Coming Anyway”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Israel have come up with a novel way of making photorealistic changes to photos using AI. And gave Elon Musk a bunch of haircuts.

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Neural Network Gives Elon Musk Incredible Makeovers

By Victor Tangermann

Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos.

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Company Wants to Make Deepfake Advertising Clones of Your Face

By Tony Ho Tran

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

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Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

By Dan Robitzski

Police departments are increasingly relying on systems that use sensors and artificial intelligence to keep track of gunshots, the AP reports.

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Crime-Fighting AI Put a Guy in Jail for a Year With Little Evidence

By Victor Tangermann

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Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers probing Twitter's controversial image-cropping algorithm found that it's prejudiced in more ways than previously thought.

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Twitter’s Image-Cropping Algorithm Was Shockingly Racist, Ableist, Ageist

By Dan Robitzski

AI development firm OpenAI just revealed Codex, a tool that can take commands written in English and turn them into programming.

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

By Dan Robitzski

A Scottish conservation group claims Google Maps has been suggesting “potentially fatal” routes up mountains — and even directly over cliffs.

Google Maps Is Telling People to Walk Off a Cliff, Critics Say

By Tony Ho Tran

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.

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New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook announced that is is abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset capable of turning brain signals into spoken words.

Facebook Abandons Plans for Mind-Reading Headset

By Victor Tangermann

In algorithmic moderation gone awry, Tik Tok users found themselves unable to post phrases like "Black lives matter" or "supporting black success."

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TikTok Censored the Words “Black Lives Matter” But Not “White Supremacy”

By Dan Robitzski

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.

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Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

By Dan Robitzski

Google's search engine misidentified an engineer's likeness as belong to a serial killer, who happens to have the same name.

Google Algorithm Accuses Random Guy of Being a Serial Killer

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence will be beating humans — outworking if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of functions as the future approaches. Here's why.

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Nobel Winner: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans, “It’s Not Even Close”

By Foster Kamer

Google is now debuting a new video chat system they’re calling “Project Starline.” It's a 3-D holographic video chat. Here's how it works.

Google Debuts Dystopic 3D Prison-Style Video Chat: Project Starline

By Foster Kamer

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.

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Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

According to this researcher, if we ever make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we're unlikely to find a group of little green Martians.

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Astronomer: Aliens Will Most Likely Resemble AI if We Ever Make Contact

By Victor Tangermann

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.

Google’s DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

By Dan Robitzski

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.

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McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

By Dan Robitzski

Singer-songwriter Grimes posted a TikTok video on Wednesday night in which she returned to her next biggest pastime: overpromising what artificial intelligence can provide to society.

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Grimes Says AI Will Usher in an Era of Luxurious Communism

By Dan Robitzski

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.

Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Veritone is launching a platform that will let celebrities deepfake their own voice to record ads and endorsements.

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Startup Lets Checked-Out Influencers Deepfake Themselves for Product Endorsements

By Dan Robitzski

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.

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People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

By Dan Robitzski

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Simon DeDeo warns of "nightmare" bots that use AI and image synthesis to "drive vulnerable people (literally) crazy.”

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Professor Warns of “Nightmare” Bots That Prey on Vulnerable People

By Kelly Catalfamo

Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.

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Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

Google and Alphabet are under fire from their own investors over weak whistleblower protection and poor human rights enforcement.

Google Investors Condemn Company for Punishing Whistleblowers

By Dan Robitzski

If companies want to save money, it would make more sense to replace executives with AI rather than their lower-paid workers.

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Should Overpaid CEOs Be Replaced With Artificial Intelligence?

By Dan Robitzski

Authorities suspect that Kremlin operatives have used the deepfakes in order to gain information against Alexei Navalny's opposition movement.

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Russia Accused of Using Deepfakes to Imitate Political Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater AI is getting better and better at crafting arguments. We're dreading what will happen when that thing makes its way to the public.

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New AI Is Designed to Debate People, and It Could Ruin Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Janelle Shane trained the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write some incredible pickup lines. We think they have a shot at actually working.

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You Should Definitely Try These Horrible Pickup Lines Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

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An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook released a new video, showing off a prototype of a wrist-worn device meant to serve as a controller for its upcoming augmented reality glasses.

Facebook’s Neural Wristband Actually Sounds Pretty Cool

By Victor Tangermann

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.

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Algorithm Detects Deepfakes by Analyzing Reflections in Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.

Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.

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Uncanny Deepfake Tom Cruise Fools People on TikTok

By Victor Tangermann

The genealogy platform MyHeritage has introduced a new tool called Deep Nostalgia that allows you to animate old photos of dead relatives.

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AI Tool “Deep Nostalgia” Lets You Reanimate Your Dead Relatives

By Tony Ho Tran

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.

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AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

On two separate occasions last year, two Air Force F-16 fighter jet pilots were saved by a sophisticated Ground Collision Avoidance System.

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Fighter Pilots Blacked Out From Gs, Got Saved by AI Co-Pilot

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Levandowski decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-focused church he started and donated its funds to the NAACP.

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Artificial Intelligence-Worshipping Church Officially Shuts Down

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.

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New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.

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New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

By Dan Robitzski

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are attaching human brain stem cells to microchips in an attempt to make artifiical intelligence more powerful and efficient than before.

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Scientists Are Weaving Human Brain Cells Into Microchips

By Dan Robitzski

After irate users tanked Robinhood's rating on Google's app store, Google stepped in to delete the onslaught of one-star feedback.

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Robinhood Reviews

By Dan Robitzski

Robinhood's rating on Google's app store is once again in the gutter, and this time Google says the stock trading company is on its own.

Robinhood Is Down to 1/5 Stars on Google Play

By Dan Robitzski

A congressional advisory panel concluded that the U.S. shouldn't ban killer robots or AI because for all the military knows they could be a good thing.

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Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.

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Scientists Trying to Build Medical AI That’s Less Racist Than Doctors

By Dan Robitzski