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A new subset of 7,500 unmodified photographs of natural objects is still able to completely throw AIs for a loop.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of musicians-turned-programmers used a John Coltrane record to train a neural network, and the result is provocative.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Google has reportedly decided to halt plans for launching a censored search engine in China."We have terminated Project Dragonfly."
Google

By Victor Tangermann

Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.
Facial recognition

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's new electronic tongue Hypertaste is portable, fast, and capable of identifying a range of liquids, filling a gap in today's offerings.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A new AI system tracks people's tiny, involuntary eye movements to identify them, sort of like an ocular fingerprint scanner.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Someone used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 film "The Shining."
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

We're one step closer to invisibility cloaks thanks to a new artificial intelligence that designs metamaterials with specific optical properties.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

An AI-developed flu vaccine is now undergoing clinical trials, meaning we could be headed toward an era of fewer flus and more AI-developed drugs.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

During a speech at the National Conservatism conference, Peter Thiel called for the CIA and FBI to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Scientist have created an AI glass that can recognize images without any need for sensors, circuits, or even a power source.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Facebooks is changing how it ranks "miracle cures" and unproven medical treatments — but will it be enought to stem the medical misinformation tide?
Meta

By Kristin Houser

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
Facial recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Google scientists trained a neural net to better navigate spaces with an archive of thousands of "Mannequin Challenge" videos.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."
Google

By Kristin Houser

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A new website illustrates how AI can now churn out believable blog posts, in this case focused on digital marketing strategies.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Spice manufacturer McCormick's new concept grill uses AI to create a soundtrack to the act of grilling, proving AI can't make everything better.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Scientists developed an AI "vaccine" that can make algorithms more resistant to hackers who launch adversarial attacks to try and confuse the systems.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A new pizza AI out of MIT can look at a photo of pizza and determine the ingredients on it as well as the order in which they were added.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A major auto manufacturing alliance has tapped Google to create the next generation of built-in media displays for its vehicles.
Google

By Kristin Houser

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

The Associated Press found that a LinkedIn profile for a "Katie Jones" was a made up cover likely belonging to a spy, and the profile photo was a deepfake.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

San Francisco hopes an AI-powered tool that redacts information from police reports will eliminate racial bias from the suspect-charging process.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A member of the quickly disbanded Google AI ethics board says lawmakers need to approach regulating the company like it's a "world power."
Google

By Kristin Houser

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to specific faces from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.
Facial recognition

By Dan Robitzski

By using machine learning technology, video game modders are reviving classic old games by giving their graphics a major update.
Machine Learning

By Natalie Coleman

A brand-new subreddit called "newsbyAI" is full of fake news articles written by artificial intelligence systems that imitate the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

To create a convincing deepfake video, all you have to do is rewrite a clip's text transcript, thanks to this terrifying new algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Jai Paul is back with an artificial intelligence he calls an "infinite playback," which produces new takes on his classic track "Jasmine" in perpetuity. 
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

With the help from research scientist Janelle Shane, an animal refuge created a neural network that came up with a series of weird and cute cat names.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A new algorithm can decipher babies’ cries, telling if they're due to something "normal," such as hunger or sleepiness, or a sign of distress.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Google co-founder Sergey Brin needs engineers to work on his massive $150 million blimp, which could deliver supplies on humanitarian missions.
Google

By Kristin Houser

A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a variety of species, like Animorphs.
Artificial Intelligence

By Natalie Coleman

Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher, who wrote her masters thesis on deep learning and "Jeopardy!", just won the classic quiz game. And we found her thesis.
Artificial Intelligence

By Foster Kamer

Oddly human-looking robot artist Ai-Da is about to launch its first exhibition — and the bot's artworks have already sold for more than $1.2 million.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
Facial recognition

By Victor Tangermann

A company called GLITCH is selling dresses that were designed by an AI algorithm. It hopes to support more women in science and tech.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

An artist created a neural network and programmed it to generate a human-looking face. She then had the AI forget it, neuron by neuron.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Deepfakes have become more powerful and accessible, but presidential candidates haven't taken steps to counter computer-generated misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.
Facial recognition

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing only a short audio clip of a person's voice, this artificial intelligence reconstructs what they might look like in real life.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

New York's State Education Department has asked a public school district to delay its trial of a facial recognition system on students and staff.
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

While playing rounds of capture the flag in Quake III Arena, DeepMind's artificial intelligence was able to outperform human teammates.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a neural net called GROVER that can create — and identify — fake news better than any human or algorithm out there.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski