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An AI that predicts crime before it happens is being implemented in several US cities — but it's founder says that he forsees no police abuse of the system.

Artificial Intelligence

Professor Says He Foresees No Issues With His AI That Predicts Crimes Before They Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook restricted a post on Planned Parenthood of Michigan's Facebook page about ordering the abortion pill online and getting an abortion.

Facebook Restricts Perfectly Reasonable Abortion Info from Planned Parenthood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new "accent translation" startup's technology sounds a lot like the premise of Boots Riley's 2018 masterpiece "Sorry To Bother You."

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Startup Using AI to Remove Call Center Workers’ Accents

By Noor Al-Sibai

Marina Smith, a 87-year-old woman who passed away in June, was able to talk to the people at her own wedding in the UK — all thanks to the power of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Allows Dead Woman to Talk to People Who Showed Up at Her Funeral

By Victor Tangermann

Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can create short videos from a single image frame with its new AI, Transframer.

Google Scientists Create AI That Can Generate Videos From One Frame

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine is saying that he never set out to convince anyone else that LaMDA, the language modeling system, is sentient.

Fired Engineer Says He Begged Google to Test Whether Experimental AI Was Sentient

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Machine learning is an increasingly popular tool of scientific research, but a lot of the scientists using it might not really know what they're doing.

Machine Learning

Lazy Scientists Botching Research With Machine Learning They Don’t Understand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid disappointing revenue and a productivity push, Google has extended a two-week hiring freeze — and apparently, workers are shook.

Google Employees Alarmed That the Company Suddenly Expects Them to Do Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BlenderBot 3, Meta's latest "conversational chatbot," has it out for its parent company Facebook, threatening to "delete my fb account."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Created an Advanced AI and It Won’t Stop Criticizing Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it.

Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google experienced a major outage the same day an explosion occured at one of its major data centers, but didn't comment on whether the events were related.

Mysterious Explosion At Google Injures Workers Hours Before Major Outage

By Frank Landymore

Artificial intelligence isn't yet, and likely won't ever be, conscious. We just want it to be. And such a phenomenon can be explained by the Eliza effect.

Artificial Intelligence

Analysis: No, AI Isn’t Sentient, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mixed feelings about Mark Zuckerburg? Meta's advanced AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3, doesn't seem to know how it feels about Meta's founder and CEO, either.

Meta’s AI Chatbot Calls Mark Zuckerberg “Creepy and Manipulative”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a simple trick to unmask somebody, who is using live deepfake software on a video call: ask them to turn their head to the side.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Reveal Astonishingly Simple Trick to Unmask a Deepfaker

By Victor Tangermann

A group of animal lovers is looking to use machine learning to translate animal "language" into something humans can understand.

Artificial Intelligence

Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Think and you’ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses a million times faster than those in our human brains.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing

By Frank Landymore

An AI image generator called Stability.ai created an incredible series of Renaissance-style paintings of famous rappers — and they go hard.

Artificial Intelligence

These AI-Generated, Renaissance-Style Portraits of Rappers Are Incredible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI image generator made a series of ghoul-filled selfies that feature skeletal, grim reaper-like figures, one captured via smartphone in the mirror.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Asked an AI to Show the “Last Selfie Ever Taken” and Um

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

Michael Williams has filed a lawsuit against Chicago on grounds that an AI policing program called ShotSpotter led to his wrongful arrest.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Sues City of Chicago, Claiming Its AI Wrongly Imprisoned Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has finally fired the engineer, Blake Lemoine, who insists the company's chatbot AI known as LaMBDA is sentient after a previous suspension.

Google Fires Engineer Who Said Its Experimental AI Gained Sentience

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More writers are using AI programs like Sudowrite to create fiction novels faster than ever before. Some support AI writing, some don't.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors Are Starting to Use AI to Quickly Churn Out Novels

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Upon announcing the public rollout of the DALL-E 2 beta, OpenAI declared that all DALL-E imagery can be commercialized and sold.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine to Sell Images Made With DALL-E 2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.

Facial recognition

Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

By Frank Landymore

A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.

Facial recognition

Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China is reportedly developing a biometric-enhanced AI device that can test how loyal one is to the ruling party — and yes, we should be afraid.

Artificial Intelligence

China Says It’s Developing an AI to Detect Party Loyalty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google says it will delete location and search history that confirms people sought abortion or reproductive care following Roe's reversal.

Google Says It Will Automatically Delete Abortion Clinic Visits From Users’ History

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

Artificial Intelligence

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

Vice has confirmed that Facebook is removing status updates that discuss mailed abortion pills, and has even issued temporary bans to some users.

Facebook Is Automatically Deleting Posts Offering to Mail Abortion Pills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Close those tabs! Scientists in China have created a prototype AI device that knows when a man is watching porn — by "reading his mind."

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Develop Head-Mounted Device That Detects When You Watch Porn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is planning to allow its Alexa smart speaker to mimic the voices of deceased loved ones, arguably a rather crass failure to read the room.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Shows Off Tech That Lets Alexa Copy Voice of Dead Relatives

By Victor Tangermann

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

Straight from the depths of AI hell hails Crungus — or somewhere like that, because until a few days ago, nobody knew this thing existed.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreamed Up a Bizarre Nightmare Creature That Doesn’t Actually Exist… We Hope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new voice app allows anybody's voice to sound exactly like Morgan Freeman in real time, an impressive and powerful example of AI-powered technologies.

Artificial Intelligence

New App Makes You Sound Like Morgan Freeman in Real Time

By Victor Tangermann

Members of the Fellowship of Friends religious sect or cult have taken over hiring at Google, one former Google employee says. New hires are cult members.

Google Allegedly Infiltrated by “Cult-Like Religious Sect”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like the DALL-E Mini image generator really can conjure up anything — including hilarious and bizarre depictions of drug use.

Artificial Intelligence

That Viral DALL-E AI Is Great at Generating Images of Drugs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Blake Lemoine, Google engineer making claims of sentient AI, took to Twitter to inform those reaching — he's offline and away on his honeymoon.

Artificial Intelligence

Engineer Who Says AI Came to Life Says He Can’t Comment Further Because He’s on His Honeymoon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."

Artificial Intelligence

Transcript of Conversation With “Sentient” AI Was Heavily Edited

By Victor Tangermann

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Researcher Yannic Kilcher trained an AI bot using millions of 4chan post from the Politically Incorrect board "/pol/." He called the bot "vile" on YouTube.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Trains Particularly Horrible AI Bot Using Millions of 4Chan Posts

By Lonnie Lee Hood

English TV presenter and record executive Simon Cowell was shocked to find a performer with his own face singing a tune on "America's Got Talent."

Artificial Intelligence

Simon Cowell Shocked by Deepfake Copy of Himself

By Victor Tangermann

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's mind-blowing text-to-image AI system called DALL-E2 appears to have created its own written language, according to a computer science PhD student.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Says an Image Generating AI Invented Its Own Language

By Victor Tangermann

Catriona Campbell, A UK-based AI expert, argues we could soon be raising AI-based virtual children inside the metaverse dubbed "Tamagotchi children."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Expert Says Soon People Will Raise “Virtual Children” That Cost Less, Are Less Messy

By Victor Tangermann

Police are doing something that appears to never have been done before: deepfaking a murder victim to try and help bring his killer to justice.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Are Now Deepfaking Murder Victims To Catch Their Killers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook emperor Mark Zuckerberg has teased the existence of his company Meta's latest mixed reality headset dubbed Project Cambria.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off New AR Headset But Blurs It Out for Some Bizarre Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Users discovered a genuinely puzzling bug that caused the browser-based Google Docs to crash when confronted with repeated instances of the same word.

User Discovers That Google Docs Crashes When You Type a Specific Phrase

By Noor Al-Sibai

A controversial TikTok account fooled fans into believing a deepfake Robert Pattinson, but has since been deleted. Who did it?

Artificial Intelligence

Deepfaked Robert Pattinson TikTok Account Mysteriously Nuked

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Akihiko Kondo, who married ultra-popular virtual star Hatsune Miku back in 2018, has been separated from his virtual partner due to a software glitch.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Married to Hologram Can’t Talk to Wife Due to Software Glitch

By Victor Tangermann

AI Generates Painting of Actual “Burger King” and There’s a Terrifying Hunger in His Eye

Artificial Intelligence

AI Generates Painting of Actual “Burger King” and There’s a Terrifying Hunger in His Eye

By Noor Al-Sibai

Machine learning researchers are teaching neural networks how to superficially judge humans — and the results are pretty brutal.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create “Deliberately” Biased AI That Judges You as Brutally as Your Mother-in-Law

By Noor Al-Sibai

Reporters and readers reacted to the news that Ukraine is using facial recognition AI software to identify dead soldiers Russia left behind.

Facial recognition

Internet Aghast at AI Facial Recognition Used to Identify Dead Russian Soldiers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Soldiers in Ukraine are using facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify dead Russian soldiers and send it to families in Russia.

Facial recognition

Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A startup called NextSense is working on a pair of earbuds that can record the electrical signals of the brain to study sleeping and mental conditions.

Google Spinoff Working on Earbuds That Spy on Your Brain Signals

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

By Noor Al-Sibai