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An employee shares his experience working with Walmart robots, which are supposed to make his job easier but instead add to his workload.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The academic publisher Springer Nature just released a book summarizing lithium-ion battery research that was written by an AI algorithm.
Machine Learning

By Dan Robitzski

Experts tell CNN they envision a future in which scammers use voice-mimicking technology to make robocalls sound like someone a target knows personally.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A facial recognition trial focused on New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge didn't correctly identify a single person's face.
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

The YouTube account using Google's AI research to make synthesize videos of Trump singing is back, this time with "Sweet Dreams."
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Google's Deepmind just pitted its math-solving AI system against a 16-year-old's math exam. The exam won, and it wasn't that close.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Following a week of protests over the company's controversial nominations, Google decided to cancel its new ethics board.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

IBM engineers just figured out how to build AI that can learn from its memories, transferring skills among related tasks instead of starting from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a Google-developed neural network, we now live in the same universe as an audio deepfake of Trump singing Eminem.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

For the past eight years, IBM's Watson AI division has boasted about plans to revolutionize healthcare. Now, doctors are getting tired of waiting.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

As Google's new advisory council for artificial intelligence development prepares to convene for the first time, one member has a dire warning.
Ethics

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese prison's new surveillance system will monitor inmates constantly to prevent escape attempts — but perhaps at the cost of prisoners' mental health.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The Animal-AI Olympics will see AI agents completing in tasks mimicking ones often used to test the intelligence of animals.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A Finnish startup called Vainu relies on prison labor to train its AI algorithms, arguing that labeling training data is giving inmates valuable skills.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can make creating deepfakes as easy as doodling a quick sketch on top of existing photos of celebrities.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army just went with Palantir over Raytheon after a year-long contest to determine which would design new battlefield AI.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Google has once again revitalized its robotics program, focusing on simple machines powered by powerful AI instead of humanoid robots.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Israel-based startup Seedo has announced plans to create the world's first automated cannabis farm — and it might not be the last.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The Department of Defense has deemed that all 5,000 pages of documents on Google's work to build AI for military drones is too sensitive to release.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

On March 15, Google converted currencies to Ghana's Cedi at one-fourth of its actual value. This is the third country to be hit by the glitch this year.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force recently announced plans to build "Skyborg," an AI program that will be able to fly fighter planes and drones and lessen the burden on people.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates issued a grave warning Monday, comparing advanced artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

Google has a history of absorbing DeepMind's AI technology into its own projects. To protect the goldmine of AGI, DeepMind has safeguards in place.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Google has released a new app called Lookout that describes objects and reads text or currency for people with visual impairments.
Google

By Kristin Houser

IBM figured out how to use a quantum computer to make machine learning algorithms better than ever before. But no quantum computer is good enough yet.
Machine Learning

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, we can tip robots over and insult smart homes without fear of a robotic revolution. But ethicist Nicholas Agar warns that may someday change.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-powered robot head named Tengai could make the applicant screening process less biased while still providing a "human" touch.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

IBM recently published a dataset for facial recognition AI made up of images that it scraped off of Flickr without asking for permission.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses artificial intelligence trained on public job boards to generate random resumes. But the contact information it posts may be genuine.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's AI research group, OpenAI, just became a for-profit company that will generate revenue for its ongoing non-profit work.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist whips up plausible-yet-slightly-incoherent apartment listings using machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

In a paper two professors argue that algorithms are already constructing and shaping our reality, whether we're aware of it or not.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

To help people determine whether or not a news article was made up by a bot, scientists built a tool that looks for signs of humanity within text.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

Google parent company Alphabet is preparing to launch what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation says is the first commercial drone delivery service.
Google

By Jon Christian

Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced a bold plan today to break up tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
Google

By Jon Christian

In an interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about a device that could one day allow users to navigate menus or even type using their minds alone.
Meta

By Victor Tangermann

Emotion detection systems are increasing in prevalence, but the AI supporting several systems has exhibited a troubling racial bias.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Italian carmaker Pininfarina just revealed the Battista at this year's Geneva Motor Show: a road legal 1900 horsepower hypercar.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A group of Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, a controversial project to build a search engine in China.
Google

By Kristin Houser

On Friday, two former Facebook content moderators signed on to a lawsuit, alleging that they also suffered from symptoms of PTSD.
Meta

By Victor Tangermann

Newborn baby in a hospital bed, machine-learning models can help detect sepsis in babies.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jacob Banas

Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist who used to develop AI for Google and Microsoft, predicts that AI will automate 40 percent of the world's jobs in 15 years.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jacob Banas

An experiment about reporting news stories with machine learning just released its first effort — a deep dive into Lyft's IPO.
Machine Learning

By Jon Christian

The European Commission just published a report saying that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all been too lax on their pledge to fight fake news.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

CEO Sam Altman: AI might well replace most jobs as we know them today, but the market will be flooded with new "sort of human to human jobs."
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

What if an ai, paired with an app, can find you true love? That's what Netflix's new dystopian show Osmosis is imagining in a new trailer.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A self-assembling network of silver nanowires responds to electrical signals in a similar way to how the brain stores memories.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is currently testing a system that would let smartphones lock out users if it doesn't recognize their gait or grip.
Artificial Intelligence

By Dan Robitzski

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.
Google

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.
Meta

By Dan Robitzski

A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that several popular health tracking apps send data to Facebook without ever asking or informing users.
Meta

By Dan Robitzski

A fast food AI platform is taking orders at a drive-thru in Colorado, and it could be the latest sign that restaurants are prepared to lean on automation.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The University of Cambridge has launched a new center focused on finding ways to use AI to address problems with the environment.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

China's state-run media outlet Xinhua adds a female AI news anchor to its news team, and she'll make her professional debut in March.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Sean Dorrance Kelly, philosophy professor at Harvard, argues that artificial intelligence can never achieve true human creativity.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A New AI Draws Cats, and They’re Utterly Grotesque
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this month, Google inadvertently revealed that its home security device, Nest, contained a secret microphone. Now it says secrecy was a "mistake."
Google

By Dan Robitzski

A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.
Machine Learning

By Jon Christian

This weekend, Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm that he'd left the research group OpenAI — citing disagreements with the group's direction.
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian

Scientists developed a piece of machine learning software that can predict the prognosis of ovarian cancer and at a higher accuracy.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

A former chief technology officer for the Israeli government warned that artificial intelligence could lead to a tragedy "worse than 9/11."
Artificial Intelligence

By Jon Christian