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

The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

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

AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

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

Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

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

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

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

World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

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

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

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

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

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

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using 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

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

By Dan Robitzski

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

A Neural Net Used a Viral Meme to Learn to Navigate

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

Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

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

Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News

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

Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021

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

New AI Generates Infinite Horrible Marketing Sites

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

This Ridiculous Grill Proves We Don’t Need AI for Everything

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

An AI “Vaccine” Can Block Adversarial Attacks

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

MIT’s New AI Can Look at a Pizza, and Tell You How to Make It

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

Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

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

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

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

Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res

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

Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes

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

AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

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

Google Thinks It Can Make Your Car’s Dashboard Not Suck

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

A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

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

A Spy Used a Deepfake Photo to Infiltrate LinkedIn Networks

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

Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

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

San Francisco Is Using AI to Try to Make Courts Less Racist

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

Professor: Lawmakers Must Treat Google Like A “World Power”

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

Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

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

Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

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

New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

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

Alarming AI Clones Both a Person’s Voice and Their Speech Patterns

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

Terrifying Deepfake AI Alters Vids to Match Your Transcript Edits

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

This AI Generates New Remixes of Jai Paul… Forever

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

This Neural Network Gives Kittens A+ Names Like “Mr Sinister”

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

Researchers Built an AI That Translates Babies’ Cries

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

Google’s Co-Founder Is Building a Gargantuan $150 Million Blimp

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

This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy

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

We Found “Jeopardy!” Kingslayer Emma Boettcher’s Thesis on Data Mining

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

Creepy Human-Like Robot’s Art Is Selling for Astronomical Prices

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database
Facial recognition

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

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

This Startup Is Selling “Little Black Dresses” Designed By AI

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

Watch an AI Die, Neuron by Neuron

By Kristin Houser

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

Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

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

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, 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

The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use 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

Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice

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

State Attempts to Nix Public School’s Facial Recognition Plans

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

DeepMind’s Gamer AI is Better At Co-op Mode Than Human Players

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

New AI Generates Horrifyingly Plausible Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

Google will ban any marijuana or THC products from being sold over apps available on its platform, likely in a bid to be more child-friendly.
Google

Google Bans Weed Delivery Apps From Play Store

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.
Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

By Kristin Houser

Google's multi-year, multi-million dollar research project into cold fusion reached a disheartening conclusion: there's no evidence the phenomenon exists.
Google

Google’s $10 Million Cold Fusion Project Has Failed

By Kristin Houser

To improve mosque security, the Keep Mosques Safe initiative is financing the installation of an AI-powered security system in mosques worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

Security Company to Install Gun-Detecting AI in Mosques Worldwide

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Programmers are creating sexist AI voice assistants, which are then encouraging users to be sexist, according to a new UN report.
Artificial Intelligence

United Nations: Siri and Alexa Are Encouraging Misogyny

By Kristin Houser

Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.
Artificial Intelligence

Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?

By Victor Tangermann

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

By Jon Christian

An amazing new deepfake algorithm turns single frames into full-motion videos, reminiscent of photographs and paintings in the "Harry Potter" series.
Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Algorithm Turns Still Portraits Into Full-Motion Videos

By Jon Christian

The app Juicebox developed an AI chatbot, named Slutbot, that flirts and sexts with people while helping them learn about consent and respect.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Where You Can Flirt With a Sexting AI Called Slutbot

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of AI built by Amazon's Alexa team is better at picking up on emotions when people are talking. It could help Alexa better understand people.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Analyze Your Emotions

By Dan Robitzski

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn has donated more than $1 million to various organizations attempting to prevent an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

Skype Co-Founder Desperate to Stop AI From Destroying Humanity

By Kristin Houser

Police in the UK must defend their use of facial recognition tech in court for the first time, and the court's ruling could set a powerful precedent.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Takes Police to Court for Scanning His Face Without Consent

By Kristin Houser

Canada-based startup Dessa has unveiled a new AI that replicates the voice of Joe Rogan, and it's perhaps the best audio deepfake yet.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI That Sounds Just Like Joe Rogan Should Terrify Us All

By Kristin Houser