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When a robot talked trash against its opponents, it hurt their feelings and they performed worse at a game researchers use to study human rationality.
Artificial Intelligence

Study: Trash-Talking Robots Can Hurt Your Delicate Feelings

By Kristin Houser

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.
Artificial Intelligence

Someday, Robot Artists May Have to Explain Their Creations to Us

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system called SchNOrb can probe the quantum mechanics of compounds to help scientists design new molecules from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Learning Quantum Mechanics to Design New Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

A truly bizarre evangelical app tries to keep people from watching porn by using AI to filter it out and sending alerts to their friends if they slip up.
Artificial Intelligence

Horrible Christian App Narcs to Your Mom If You Watch Porn

By Dan Robitzski

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.
Google

Google Is Secretly Hoarding Your Medical Records

By Victor Tangermann

Using head-mounted cameras to scan faces in Washington, D.C., Fight for the Future protestors hoped to draw attention to facial recognition surveillance.
Artificial Intelligence

Protestors Wearing Head-Mounted Cameras Scan 13,000 Faces in DC

By Kristin Houser

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has released the full version of GPT-2, an algorithm capable of writing coherent paragraphs of text.
OpenAI

OpenAI Just Released the AI It Said Was Too Dangerous to Share

By Kristin Houser

This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon

By Victor Tangermann

According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will start offering bank checking accounts to its Google Pay customers.
Google

Google Is Going to Start Offering Bank Accounts

By Victor Tangermann

A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt.
OpenAI

Redditor Claims They Fell In Love With OpenAI’s Neural Network

By Kristin Houser

The Apple Card has granted women a lower credit limit than their husbands in a number of high-profile cases, raising questions about bias behind the scenes.
Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

By Victor Tangermann

Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at

By Kristin Houser

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.
Facial recognition

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA researchers have created a new AI that needs one full body photo of a person to make them look like they’re dancing.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Can Make a Vid of You Dancing Like a Pro From a Single Pic

By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals could hack Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated AI assistants using beams of light, according to new research.
Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Can Access Your Alexa by Shining a Laser in Your Window

By Kristin Houser

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.
Google

Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

The 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner" takes place in November 2019. Needless to say, our tech fell a teensy bit short of what the movie predicted.
Artificial Intelligence

“Blade Runner” Was Set This Month. Where Are Our Flying Cars?

By Dan Robitzski

Belgium-based machine learning researcher and educator Xander Steenbrugge has developed a neural network AI that can turn music into trippy animations.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch an AI Turn Music Into a Brain-Melting Visualization

By Victor Tangermann

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

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Artificial Intelligence

This 26 Year Old Hacker Says He Made a Self-Driving Car in One Month

By Jappy Lim

If the Department of Home Affairs gets its way in Australia, a face scan will be used to verify the ages of people visiting porn websites.
Artificial Intelligence

Australians May Be Forced to Scan Their Faces to Watch Porn

By Kristin Houser

A brand new $220 electric toothbrush called "Oral-B GENIUS X with Artificial Intelligence" harnesses the power of AI for some reason.
Artificial Intelligence

This Electric Toothbrush Uses AI Because Nothing is Sacred Anymore

By Victor Tangermann

Many AI researchers are not fans of the "Terminator" movies as they worry the films misrepresent the abilities — and dangers — of artificial intelligences.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Researchers Hate The “Terminator” Movies With a Passion

By Kristin Houser

A browser game called "Aim and Shoot" pits the player against human-hunting neural networks that learn to become increasingly deadly.
Artificial Intelligence

In This Browser Game, Your Opponents Are Neural Networks

By Dan Robitzski

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy
Google

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

An AI text generator trained on real speeches by President Donald Trump fooled quiz participants with its output more than half the time.
Artificial Intelligence

This “RoboTrump” AI Mimics the President’s Writing Style

By Kristin Houser

The AI systems now used to grade essays on standardized tests in 21 states are deeply flawed, according to a new Motherboard investigation.
Artificial Intelligence

21 States Are Using AI to Grade Essays on Standardized Tests

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers have developed a human-inspired, artificial skin that can "augment" interactive devices, including a phone and wearables.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Wrapped a Phone in Fake Human Skin

By Victor Tangermann

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait
Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait

By Victor Tangermann

The Hong Kong government has announced a ban on any face masks or paints that are "likely to prevent identification" during public demonstrations.
Artificial Intelligence

Hong Kong Bans Surveillance-Thwarting Face Masks

By Jacob Banas

At an event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that the social network is still hoping to one day release a brain-controlled wearable
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg: Wearables Will Soon Read Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

Robots Could Be Performing a Third of U.S. Surgeries by 2021
Artificial Intelligence

Robots Could Be Performing a Third of U.S. Surgeries by 2021

By Andy Palma

The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

California has banned the creation of political deepfakes — clips manipulated to make it look like a politician said or did something they didn't.
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Makes It Illegal to Distribute Political Deepfakes

By Kristin Houser

Porn deepfakes featuring actresses and musicians from the entertainment industry account for the vast majority of the manipulated videos currently online.
Artificial Intelligence

Study: Porn Accounts for 96 Percent of Deepfakes Online

By Kristin Houser

An experimental TikTok feature available in China lets users highlight someone's face and search for any other time it appears in a post.
Facial recognition

TikTok Tracks Users With Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.
Meta

A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

Contractors hired to collect face scans for Google specifically targeted homeless black people and lied to them about the nature of the collection.
Google

Google Contractors Tricked Homeless Black People Into Face Scans

By Kristin Houser

A new video uses deepfake tech to turn recorded footage of New York City into a bizarre, stylistic Picasso-like landscape.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Deepfake Turn Footage of New York Into a Cubist Painting

By Dan Robitzski

Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.
Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can read through news stories and generate comments that resemble those written by actual human readers.
Artificial Intelligence

Evil Research Generates Fake Comments on News Stories

By Dan Robitzski

At a conference at the Vatican last week, Pope Francis warned that in the wrong hands, AI could have some devastating consequences on humanity.
Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Says AI Could Lead Humanity to “Barbarism”

By Victor Tangermann

A new website called M-Journal will turn Wikipedia articles into fake academic articles so that students can cite it in their homework.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Turns Wikipedia Pages Into Fake Academic Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.
Facial recognition

Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this year, a video claiming to be the legendary Trump pee tape surfaced online. It's almost certainly a fake, but it's also unclear how it was made.
Artificial Intelligence

Yes, There’s a “Pee Tape” — and It’s Unclear If It’s a Deepfake

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

By Victor Tangermann

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.
Google

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

The Android app TwinFACE promises to give you "the opportunity to create an anime picture based on a real selfie." But it does a terrible job.
Artificial Intelligence

Finally, an App That Turns Your Selfie into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

Deepfake pioneer Hao Li believes the average person will have access to "perfectly real" deepfakes in just six to 12 months.
Artificial Intelligence

Deepfake Pioneer: “Perfectly Real” Fake Vids Are Six Months Away

By Kristin Houser

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

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

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

Facebook: Actually, We Do Listen to You Sometimes

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone’s Flirting?

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"
Artificial Intelligence

New Deepfake Transforms Tom Holland Into Emo Spider-Man

By Kristin Houser

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

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

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

Musicians Don’t Want Ticketmaster Scanning Your Face at Concerts

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

By Dan Robitzski

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

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

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

Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

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

Surprise Move: China to Curb Use of Facial Recognition in Schools

By Kristin Houser

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

This Researcher Is Gathering Dick Pics to Test Penis-Detecting AI

By Dan Robitzski

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech
Facial recognition

Most Americans Trust Cops With Facial Recognition Tech

By Kristin Houser

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

A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski