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Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.
Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Deepfake Tom Cruise Fools People on TikTok

By Victor Tangermann

The genealogy platform MyHeritage has introduced a new tool called Deep Nostalgia that allows you to animate old photos of dead relatives.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Tool “Deep Nostalgia” Lets You Reanimate Your Dead Relatives

By Tony Ho Tran

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.
Google

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
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AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

On two separate occasions last year, two Air Force F-16 fighter jet pilots were saved by a sophisticated Ground Collision Avoidance System.
Artificial Intelligence

Fighter Pilots Blacked Out From Gs, Got Saved by AI Co-Pilot

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Levandowski decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-focused church he started and donated its funds to the NAACP.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-Worshipping Church Officially Shuts Down

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.
Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.
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New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

By Dan Robitzski

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.
Google

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are attaching human brain stem cells to microchips in an attempt to make artifiical intelligence more powerful and efficient than before.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Weaving Human Brain Cells Into Microchips

By Dan Robitzski

After irate users tanked Robinhood's rating on Google's app store, Google stepped in to delete the onslaught of one-star feedback.
Google

Google Deletes 100,000 Negative Robinhood Reviews

By Dan Robitzski

Robinhood's rating on Google's app store is once again in the gutter, and this time Google says the stock trading company is on its own.
Google

Robinhood Is Down to 1/5 Stars on Google Play

By Dan Robitzski

A congressional advisory panel concluded that the U.S. shouldn't ban killer robots or AI because for all the military knows they could be a good thing.
Artificial Intelligence

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Trying to Build Medical AI That’s Less Racist Than Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft recently patented an AI chatbot capable of imitating dead relatives or living celebrities. Thankfully, there's no plan to actually develop it.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patented AI to Imitate Your Dead Family

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute say that it might be impossible to rein in superintelligent AI that decides to turn on humanity.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists: It’d Be Impossible to Control Superintelligent AI

By Dan Robitzski

In a test, the Department of Homeland Security found that new facial recognition can identify 96 percent of people despite their face masks.
Facial recognition

Government Facial Recognition Can Identify 96 Percent of Masked People

By Dan Robitzski

Recreating the impacts of psychedelics in neural networks could help scientists understand how these drugs cause hallucinations in human brains.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Want to Give Neural Networks Virtual Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.
Facial recognition

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.
Google

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just let an AI-powered algorithm take over the navigation and sensor systems of a spy plane during a training flight on Tuesday.
Artificial Intelligence

The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet

By Victor Tangermann

After being trained on the very bizarre news of the year 2020, GPT-3 had some particularly unusual guesses for what's coming next.
Artificial Intelligence

A Powerful AI Generated Some Predictions for the Future and They’re Quite Outrageous

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind AI researchers broke the record for predicting how proteins will assemble. Scientists in the field remain unimpressed.
Google

Scientists Unimpressed by Google’s Protein Folding Algorithm

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government plans to invest in local prefectures that develop new matchmaking AI to help singles in the area find love.
Artificial Intelligence

Japan’s Government Is Using AI to Set Up Lonely Singles on Dates

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.
Google

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

By Dan Robitzski

A group of eagle-eyed Reddit users have already discovered the location of the mysterious ten to 12 foot monolith on Google Earth.
Google

Mysterious Monolith Has Been There For Years, According to Google Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI algorithm called RoboGrammer can design robot bodies that are optimized for specific tasks or crossing specific terrain.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Google's DeepMind AI team built an algorithm called AlphaFold 2 that can solved the protein folding problem with better accuracy than any other team.
Google

Google AI Solves Longstanding, Near-Impossible Biology Problem

By Dan Robitzski

In order to teach AI how to use words with specific intentions rather than babbling, scientists made an AI agent play a fantasy role-playing game.
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To Teach an AI to Pursue Goals, Scientists Made It Play an RPG

By Dan Robitzski

In a video missive, Pope Franics urged Catholics to pray that AI developers build tools that help humanity rather than exploit it.
Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Is Praying for AI That Serves Humanity

By Dan Robitzski

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.
Facial recognition

Men at Facial Recognition Startup Used Its Own Tech to Sexually Harass Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-powered camera decided to follow the bald head of a linesman at a Scottish soccer game instead of the ball.
Artificial Intelligence

Robot Camera Mistakes Soccer Ref’s Bald Head For Ball

By Victor Tangermann

A new website uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to turn a picture of anyone's face into a zombie, just in time for Halloween.
Artificial Intelligence

This Neural Network Turns You Into a Zombie

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of activists are training new facial recognition algorithms to ID cops who hide their names while cracking down on protests.
Facial recognition

Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges

By Dan Robitzski

GPT-3, an artificial intelligence algorithm, is capable of writing shockingly-coherent text. But that mean it's useful, argues Facebook AI head Yann LeCun.
Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered how our brains process 3D images — then discovered that neural networks happen to do it the same way.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarity Between Neural Networks and Human Brain

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at MIT have created an AI that is capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Invents AI to Decipher Ancient Languages

By Victor Tangermann

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.
Google

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

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