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Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot
Google

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

A seed company uploaded a picture of onions to market its seeds on Facebook. The algorithm flagged it for being "overtly sexualized."
Meta

Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”

By Dan Robitzski

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body
Artificial Intelligence

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

By Dan Robitzski

At Huawei's request, the Chinese government plans to launch a new antitrust probe into Google over its Android operating system's market dominance.
Google

China Plans to Launch an Antitrust Probe Into Google

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm learned from 17,000 celebrity headshots, and now it can take a quick doodle and turn it into a brand new person.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Generate Headshot Photos From Slapdash Doodles

By Dan Robitzski

In a preprint paper, physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin from the University of Minnesota Duluth argues that the entire universe may be a neural network.
Artificial Intelligence

Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say that public health officials should be able to identify COVID outbreaks, Bloomberg reports, by examining Google searches.
Google

You Can Track COVID Outbreaks by Google Searches, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer trained an artificial intelligence algorithm on the King James Bible and had it write bizarre doomsday scripture.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Trained on the Bible Spits Out Bleak Religious Prophecies

By Dan Robitzski

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears

By Dan Robitzski

A machine learning algorithm created by a team of scientists at Warwick University just confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world first.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Just Confirmed the Existence of 50 Planets By Digging Through NASA Data

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight, winning five rounds to zero as part of a DARPA contest.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Fighter Jet Obliterates Human Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.
Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Testing F-16s Flown by AI in Virtual Combat

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force wants to test its artificial intellgience-driven drones in "some sort fo air-to-air" against human fighter pilots.
Artificial Intelligence

Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Apple filed a patent describing AirPods that can automatically adjust volume in either ear based on where you are and what you're up to.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre Apple Patent Describes Self-Aware AirPods

By Dan Robitzski

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with the extremely controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview AI.
Facial recognition

ICE Signs Contract With Controversial Facial Recognition Company

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to new, skintight sensors, AI may finally be able to learn what's going on with our hands when we make everyday gestures.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Might Finally Decipher Human Gestures

By Dan Robitzski

A team of AI scientists want to launch a well-intentioned but ethically-complicated study that involves monitoring parolees to cut down on recidivism.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Developers Want to Perform a Bizarre Study on Released Prisoners

By Dan Robitzski

Project Maven, the notorious Air Force AI system that Google helped develop and makes drones more lethal, is about to be deployed next month.
Artificial Intelligence

Air Force’s Notorious Project Maven Goes Live Next Month

By Dan Robitzski

A London courtroom declared the South Wales Police's notorious use of mass facial recognition surveillance is unlawful due to a lack of safeguards.
Facial recognition

UK Court Slams Automatic Facial Recognition Tech as “Unlawful”

By Dan Robitzski

New York's mass transportation agency, fed up with folks taking off their masks to unlock their iPhones, wants Apple to improve facial recognition features.
Artificial Intelligence

New York City Subway System Asks Apple to Improve Masked Face ID

By Jacob Banas

The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a gun and knife crime prediction tool that uses artificial intelligence. Turns out it sucks.
Artificial Intelligence

Minority Report-Style Crime-Predicting AI Predictably Sucks At Its Job

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

By Victor Tangermann

A new roleplaying game uses a powerful AI algorithm to generate a text-based adventure in real time. And unlike past versions, the story makes sense.
Artificial Intelligence

This Roleplaying AI Makes a Great Dungeon Master

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk is once again warning about the perils of unregulated AI, saying that people who think AI couldn't fool them are fooling themselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: If You Don’t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You’re an Idiot

By Dan Robitzski

Someone found a new way to use deepfakes to spread disinformation online: using the tech to make up a fake journalist from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used Deepfake Tech to Invent a Fake Journalist

By Dan Robitzski

Google is investing heavily in new kinds of wearable technology, including high-tech tattoos that turn your body into a touchpad.
Google

Google Is Working on Tattoos That Turn Your Body Into a Touchpad

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Homeland Safety has been circulating a memo about how masls could block facial recognition since Black Lives Matter protests began.
Facial recognition

Government Leak: Cops Terrified Masks Will Block Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system named SPOCK (yes, we know) can predict the orbit of distant exoplanets to figure out if they're going to collide.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Predicts Which Planets Are Going to Smash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

MIT permanently deleted a massive dataset used for training AI after learning that it was full of racist and sexist slurs.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

By Dan Robitzski

Ad studios are relying on deepfake tech rather than live actors for corporate videos due to coronavirus lockdown measures and health risks.
Artificial Intelligence

This Company Is Making Corporate Training Videos Using Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

A programmer named Aldo Cortesi created an algorithm that draws nonexistent animals, some of which look plausible and others which look like bizarre.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Generated a Bunch of Mutated-Looking New Animals

By Jon Christian

New proposed legislation would keep facial recognition technology out of the hands of all levels of law enforcement in the U.S.
Facial recognition

Senators Propose a National Ban on Police Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.
Facial recognition

Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Duke University have developed an AI that can generate a detailed computer-generated portrait of a human face from a pixelized version.
Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Is a Lot Like the “Enhance!” Feature In “CSI”

By Victor Tangermann

A video of a Dubai policeman crashing a Russian-built hoverbike from an altitude of about 100 feet is going viral on social media.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Hoverbike-Riding Cop in Dubai Wipe Out Catastrophically

By Victor Tangermann

A new iPhone update will urge anyone who tells Siri that "all lives matter" to read up on racial issues and visit BlackLivesMatter.com
Artificial Intelligence

Telling Siri “All Lives Matter” Brings up BlackLivesMatter.com

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.
Artificial Intelligence

Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.
Google

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.
Artificial Intelligence

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.
Artificial Intelligence

Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

By Dan Robitzski

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."
Artificial Intelligence

To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.
Google

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim their AI can make accurate personality judgments based on selfies alone — and even better than some humans.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers: This AI Can Judge Personality Based on Selfies Alone

By Victor Tangermann

A website called thisworddoesnotexist uses AI to generate fake but believable definitions for made-up words like "lachetous."
Artificial Intelligence

This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.
Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.
Google

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

A student getting his master's degree in business decided that he didn't want to write some essays. So he had AI do his homework it instead.
Artificial Intelligence

This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI startup called Landing AI has developed a video tool that can tell if people in public are following social distancing rules.
Artificial Intelligence

Pandemic-Inspired AI Narcs You Out For Standing Too Close

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.
Artificial Intelligence

This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

By Dan Robitzski

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.
Google

Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

An AI by a risk detection firm was able to predict where the next spike in coronavirus cases will be in the UK and US by analyzing social media posts.
Artificial Intelligence

Data Firm Says Its AI Predicts Where Next COVID-19 Spike Will Be

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus
Google

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

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Artificial Intelligence

This is Urban Art, Created by An AI

By Jägermeister

With more social gatherings happening over video conferences, we're seeing gnarly snack time close-ups. Thankfully, Microsoft AI can edit out eating sounds.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft AI Can Now Edit Your Snacking Sounds out of Your Video Chats

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h
Google

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

A New York City woman documented her experience trying to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus after showing all the symptoms. Here's what happened.
Artificial Intelligence

Will AI Save Us from Coronavirus?

By Foster Kamer

On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the AP reports.
Ethics

These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare

By Foster Kamer

The chess grandmaster took 23 years to deal with having his keester handed to him by an IBM computer in the game he made his name on.
Artificial Intelligence

Chess Grandmaster Kasparov: I’ve Made “Peace” With Robot That Beat My Ass

By Foster Kamer

An impressive new deepfake inserts Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk into the 1965 pilot episode of storied sci-fi series "Star Trek."
Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Deepfake Shows Jeff Bezos As Veiny-Headed “Star Trek” Alien

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk went on Twitter on Monday night and argued in favor of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for all companies — including Tesla.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: Everyone, “Including Tesla,” Needs AI Regulation

By Foster Kamer

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.
Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann