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The 1998 trip-hop album Mezzanine by Massive Attack got an artificial intelligence makeover at an art exhibit in London.

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An AI Remixed Massive Attack’s Classic Album “Mezzanine”

By Victor Tangermann

Google is working on a speech translation system that retains the original speaker's voice and cadence in the outputted audio.

Amazing Google AI Speaks Another Language In Your Voice

By Kristin Houser

NYPD detectives uploaded a photo of Woody Harrelson to their facial recognition system to find a suspect that they thought resembled the actor.

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Police Catch Woody Harrelson Look-Alike Using Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to pass a facial recognition ban, and the move has the potential to inspire others to follow suit.

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Tech Hub San Francisco First US City to Ban Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

A dialed-back version of the "dangerous" text-generating AI system by OpenAI is available to test online. We had some fun, but it's pretty impressive.

Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s “Dangerous” Fake News AI

By Dan Robitzski

Conceptual sound artist and composer Holly Herndon released her new artificial intelligence-inspired album "PROTO" today.

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Here’s What an Album Between a Musician and an “AI Baby” Sounds Like

By Victor Tangermann

The AIs used by Facebook and other social media companies to filter out extremist content may also be deleting valuable evidence of criminal activity.

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Facebook’s AI May Be Helping Terrorists Get Away With Murder

By Kristin Houser

"Dalí Lives" uses deepfake AI technology to create an interactive art exhibit where Salvador Dalí interacts with museum guests.

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A Salvador Dalí Deepfake Can Take Selfies With Museumgoers

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is not only failing to detect Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups on its platform, it's algorithmically generating content for them.

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Facebook Cheers on Charming Local Business Al-Qaeda’s “Great Year”

By Dan Robitzski

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects

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Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects

By Kristin Houser

Google is launching a series of gender-fluid emoji for its smartphones, the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols more inclusive.

Google Is Adding 53 Gender-Fluid Emoji to Its Smartphones

By Kristin Houser

Google announced its creepy auto-calling assistant feature a year ago. Since then, many restaurants are choosing to hang up instead.

Restaurants Are Ignoring Calls From Google’s Smart Assistant

By Victor Tangermann

Google Ventures has pumped money into Verve Therapeutics, a startup that wants to use CRISPR to create a "one-and-done" therapy for heart disease.

Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease

By Kristin Houser

The new Microsoft Ideas feature for Word uses artificial intelligence to ensure your writing doesn't feature non-inclusive language.

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Microsoft Word’s New “AI Editor” Scolds You for Gendered Language

By Kristin Houser

After investing $2.5 billion into a robot-controlled hedge fund and losing millions, Samathur Li Kin-kan is suing the company that sold him on the AI.

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Investor Sues After an AI’s Automated Trades Cost Him $20 Million

By Kristin Houser

As deepfakes and AI-generated "photos" become more common, we all need tools to discern fact from fiction. A new website came up with tips and a test.

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This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial intelligence-powered pun generator created by Stanford Researchers attempts to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too.

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This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns

By Victor Tangermann

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.

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A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

Ex-Googler: Company Has “Voodoo Doll, Avatar-Like Version of You”

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses Google's AI to churn out poetic couplets. The results are sometimes nonsensical, but occasionally prescient.

We Used Google’s New AI to Generate Angsty Poetry About the Future

By Dan Robitzski

Fast food giant McDonald's installed AI-powered menu boards in 700 of its restaurants after acquiring an Israeli AI startup.

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McDonald’s Is Installing AI-Powered Kiosks to Predict Your Order

By Victor Tangermann

A multi-company effort has resulted in the creation of an AI-powered virtual security guard that looks like it stepped straight out of a Japanese anime.

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This Virtual Security Guard Looks Like an Anime Character

By Kristin Houser

Google employees have announced a sit-in to protest what they believe were retaliatory acts by the company following a November walkout.

Google Employees Plan Sit-in to Protest “Culture of Retaliation”

By Kristin Houser

A new AI algorithm can create photorealistic images of people's bodies from scratch. It could automate models out of a job, but also be misused to mislead.

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Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI can't be considered conscious. But should it someday get to that point, some experts argue we should lay out algorithms' civil rights now.

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These Professors Are Arguing That AI Should Get Animal Rights

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers propose a new field of AI study called "machine behaviour" — and it could ensure we reap the tech's benefits while avoiding the drawbacks.

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To Prevent the Apocalypse, MIT Says to Study “Machine Behaviour”

By Kristin Houser

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wants to make sure that AI is built to serve, not conquer humanity, and wants to make sure important choices aren't automated.

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Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon

By Dan Robitzski

AI researcher Os Keyes envisions several "nightmare scenarios" for transgendered people that could result from the deployment of facial recognition tech.

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Researcher: Facial Recognition Tech Could Get Trans People Killed

By Kristin Houser

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

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Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based design agency Layer teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.

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Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

By Victor Tangermann

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

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The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

By Victor Tangermann

A couple from Massachusetts found a way to train a neural network to tell apart real oil paintings from Dutch painter Rembrandt from imitations.

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A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries

By Victor Tangermann

China is considering a law that would make deepfakes illegal, a move that shows the world power is taking the threat the videos pose very seriously.

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China Wants to Make Deepfakes Illegal

By Kristin Houser

Casinos all across the globe are starting to use facial recognition systems to improve their ability to keep self-identified problem gamblers away.

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Casinos Are Using Facial Recognition to Keep Banned Gamblers Away

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have developed a voice analysis program that uses artificial intelligence to accurately and objectively diagnose PTSD.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Detect PTSD in Your Voice

By Natalie Coleman

A New York teen is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming its facial recognition system led to his false arrest — but Apple denies the system exists.

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Teen Says Apple’s Facial Recognition Got Him Wrongfully Arrested

By Kristin Houser

A group of engineers figured out a way to fool AI surveillance systems with the help of a little colorful patch you can hang around your neck.

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This Colorful Picture is Like an Invisibility Cloak for AI

By Victor Tangermann

Within four years, 97% of passengers leaving the U.S. will be subjected to airport face scans, according to a new Homeland Security report.

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US Airports Will Scan 97% of Outbound Flyers’ Faces Within 4 Years

By Kristin Houser

Amazon recently unveiled a new requirement for contractors who deliver its packages: taking selfies now and then to verify their identity.

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Amazon Is Forcing Its Delivery Drivers to Take Selfies

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese ecommerce firm DeNA has equipped taxis with a facial recognition system that selects ads based on passenger gender and age.

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Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders

By Dan Robitzski

IBM is halting development and sales of its Watson AI designed to find promising new medications, according to a new STAT story.

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IBM Pulls the Plug on Drug-Discovering Watson AI

By Kristin Houser

A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal — and livestreaming it.

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Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network

By Jon Christian

The legal industry isn't ready for AI-generated music, leading to all sorts of new questions about copyrights in the age of creative machines.

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Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf*ck”

By Kristin Houser

The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.

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Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

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An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with MIT researchers Lex Fridman, Tesla CEO and visionary Elon Musk reiterated his belief that we're all living inside a simulation.

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Elon Musk’s Question for Super-Smart AI: What’s Outside the Simulation?

By Victor Tangermann

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

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This Grouchy Employee Hates Walmart’s New Floor-Scrubbing Robots

By Kristin Houser

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

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A Prominent Publisher Used Machine Learning to Write a Textbook

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.

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Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

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.

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New York’s Facial Recognition Trial Was a Complete Failure

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."

Watch Google’s AI Make Trump Sing Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”

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’s Best AI Just Flunked a High School Math Test

By Dan Robitzski

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

Google Started an Ethics Board and Then Killed It After Protests

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.

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IBM’s New AI Does Something Amazing: It Learns From “Memories”

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.

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Watch a Neural Network Make Trump Sing Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

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.

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Doctors Are Losing Faith in IBM Watson’s AI Doctor

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.

Google Ethics Adviser: Controlling Future AI is “Wishful Thinking”

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.

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China Is Installing “AI Guards” in Prison Cells

By Kristin Houser

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

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AI’s New Challenge: To Be as Smart as an Animal

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.

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A Finnish Startup Is Using Prison Labor to Train AI

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.

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Amazing Neural Network Turns Doodles Into Realistic Photos

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.

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The U.S. Military Is Hiring Palantir to Build Battlefield AI

By Dan Robitzski

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

Google’s Revived Robotics Department Prioritizes Powerful AI

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.

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Startup Unveils “World’s First Automated Cannabis Farm”

By Kristin Houser