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Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.
Google

By Kristin Houser

Facebook released a new data policy for its Portal devices that reveals the company will occasionally store audio recordings of Portal users.
Meta

By Dan Robitzski

New apps use AI to scrutinize your texts and determine whether someone is really into you or if you might not be the best match.
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By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Spider-Man deepfake sees Tom Holland take over for Tobey Maguire as emo Peter Parker in 2007's "Spider-Man 3"
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By Kristin Houser

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

A newly announced campaign calls on Ticketmaster to end its use of facial recognition tech to scan fans' faces at concerts.
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By Kristin Houser

A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.
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By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.
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By Dan Robitzski

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.
Google

By Kristin Houser

In areas where access to abortion is limited, Google Maps sometimes directs people looking for clinics to anti-abortion facilities instead.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

China plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology in its schools, according to officials from the Ministry of Education.
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

A new Twitter account is collecting (legal, consensual) dick pics to test out a filter that can automatically delete unsolicited nudes.
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By Dan Robitzski

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.
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By Dan Robitzski

New artificial intelligence and virtual reality tools are making it easier for doctors and their patients to fit new prosthetic limbs.
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By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.
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By Dan Robitzski

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese deepfake app Zao replaces famous actors with iPhone users' faces, and though popular, it has quickly raised serious privacy concerns.
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By Kristin Houser

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.
Google

By Kristin Houser

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.
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By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk believes that we will have a hard time communicating with futuristic AI because it will process information far more rapidly than we do.
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By Dan Robitzski

Facebook scientists built a minecraft-playing AI assistant that they hope will learn to understand natural language as it performs tasks.
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By Dan Robitzski

Former Google manager Jennifer Blakely shared her story of how the company's Chief Legal Officer abandoned and abused her after they had a child.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes it easier than ever for people to generate believable deepfakes. The AI tool doesn't require training and can swap faces in real-time.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake finally answers the age old question: What would it look like if Joe Rogan played Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films?
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By Dan Robitzski

A new algorithm analyzes pixelated images and turns them into photorealistic portraits. Point it toward a bunch of emojis and the results are terrifying.
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By Dan Robitzski

Seven book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible.
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By Victor Tangermann

A pharmacy call center has deployed AI that coaches human employees how to have more empathy with frustrated customers on the phone.
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By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.
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By Dan Robitzski

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.
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By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft says humans no longer review audio of Xbox users for "product improvement purposes" — but that doesn't mean they aren't still listening.
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By Kristin Houser

AI development firm OpenAI just released a stronger version of its fake news-writing AI system, GPT-2. Even more powerful models could be on the way soon.
OpenAI

By Dan Robitzski

Bernie Sanders just announced that he would ban police from using facial recognition tech if he wins in 2020 as part of a broader police reform.
Facial recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Now there's an AI assistant to help DJs pick songs for their sets in real time. It's unclear what, exactly, is left for the DJ to do.
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By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has said that he hopes Neuralink will help people keep pace with future AI. But psychologist Susan Scheider warns that would be ill-advised.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese search engine Sogou is creating AI author avatars to narrate the writers' books in both their voices and their likenesses
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By Kristin Houser

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.
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By Kristin Houser

Facebook paid third-party contractors to write up transcriptions of user's conversations, despite the company's insistence that it doesn't record us.
Meta

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake on YouTube brought some signature cartoony design elements back to Disney's new live-action "The Lion King" remake.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake puts Tom Cruise's face onto Christian Bale's body from "American Psycho." It's a bizarre gray area in the realm of deepfake nudity.
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By Dan Robitzski

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

To help us detect deepfakes, researchers are training mice to listen for the kinds of speech irregularities that can crop up in faked audio.
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By Kristin Houser

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By Singularity University

A Chinese city has deployed police robots to help human officers deal with traffic problems, marking another way the nation is using tech to maintain order.
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By Kristin Houser

When journalist Carey Gillam investigated the link between Monsanto weedkillers and cancer, the company worked with Google to discredit her work.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Sony researchers have created an AI drummer that can listen to a song and produce a "musically plausible" kick drum beat for it.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The newly launched AI Bar system uses facial recognition technology to ensure bar patrons are served in the proper order.
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By Kristin Houser

Facebook has announced it's collaborating with researchers to build a real-time brain decoding device that could help patients with neurological damage.
Meta

By Victor Tangermann

A deepfake answers the age-old question: "What would it look like if Keanu Reeves had the body of a child actor singing in an episode of 'Sesame Street?'"
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI algorithms can't be granted patents. The restriction originally served as a worker protection, but now it's creating a problem for engineers.
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By Dan Robitzski

Chinese students are already interacting with AI teachers, and what they learn could affect the future of education on a global scale.
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By Kristin Houser

Apple has suspended a program that let humans review Siri recordings, including private conversations never meant for the digitial assistant.
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By Kristin Houser

Hong Kong protesters are reportedly shining high-powered laser beams at surveillance cameras to confuse facial recognition technology.
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at DeepMind have found that their machine learning AI could alert medical health professionals of future kidney injury 48 hours early.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a new Turing Test to determine when machines are able to not only think like humans, but act like us as well.
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By Kristin Houser

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."
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By Dan Robitzski

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.
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By Dan Robitzski

Human contractors reviewing Siri audio for Apple hear people having private conversations or even engaging in sex acts, a whistleblower told The Guardian.
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By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from Harvard and MIT's IBM Watson Lab have created an AI system that can detect if text or fake news was generated by another AI.
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By Victor Tangermann

Neural nets tasked with interpreting then recreating a "Star Wars" duel churned out a nightmarish scene where Luke Skywalker holds a baseball bat and surfs.
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By Dan Robitzski

A decade after Google was caught wiretapping unencrypted WiFi networks with its Street View cars, a court ordered the stolen data deleted.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, which will now try to develop artificial general intelligence for Microsoft's cloud services.
OpenAI

By Dan Robitzski

Air Force “Stands Ready” to Defend Area 51 From Facebook Event
Meta

By Victor Tangermann