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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

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.

The Pentagon is Hiding Info About Google’s Work on Military Drones

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 Glitch Wrongly Claimed That Ghana’s Economy Collapsed

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.

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The Air Force Is Building AI to Fly Fighter Jets Called “Skyborg”

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.

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A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Bill Gates Compares Artificial Intelligence to Nuclear Weapons

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.

There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI

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.

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New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

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.

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This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

By Dan Robitzski

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

New Google App Describes Objects to Blind People

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

Why IBM Thinks Quantum Computers Will Boost 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.

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Ethicist Warns: Future AI Could Take Revenge for How We Treat It Now

By Dan Robitzski

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

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See the Robot Head That Might Interview You for Your Next Job

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.

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The Face Images Used to Train AI Are Taken Without Consent

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.

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You’re Hired! This Site Generates Random Neural Network Résumés

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.

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The AI Nonprofit Elon Musk Founded and Quit Is Now For-Profit

By Dan Robitzski

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

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This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings

By Jon Christian