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Artificial intelligence will be beating humans — outworking if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of functions as the future approaches. Here's why.

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Nobel Winner: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans, “It’s Not Even Close”

By Foster Kamer

Google is now debuting a new video chat system they’re calling “Project Starline.” It's a 3-D holographic video chat. Here's how it works.

Google Debuts Dystopic 3D Prison-Style Video Chat: Project Starline

By Foster Kamer

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.

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Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

According to this researcher, if we ever make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, we're unlikely to find a group of little green Martians.

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Astronomer: Aliens Will Most Likely Resemble AI if We Ever Make Contact

By Victor Tangermann

The AI development group DeepMind says that all the core components of artificial general intelligence are already here, we just need to let them work.

Google’s DeepMind Says It Has All the Tech It Needs for General AI

By Dan Robitzski

McDonald's has been experimenting with using voice recognition instead of human employees to take orders at some of its drive-thrus.

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McDonald’s Replaces Drive-Thru Human Workers With Siri-Like AI

By Dan Robitzski

Singer-songwriter Grimes posted a TikTok video on Wednesday night in which she returned to her next biggest pastime: overpromising what artificial intelligence can provide to society.

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Grimes Says AI Will Usher in an Era of Luxurious Communism

By Dan Robitzski

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.

Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Veritone is launching a platform that will let celebrities deepfake their own voice to record ads and endorsements.

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Startup Lets Checked-Out Influencers Deepfake Themselves for Product Endorsements

By Dan Robitzski

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.

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People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

By Dan Robitzski

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Simon DeDeo warns of "nightmare" bots that use AI and image synthesis to "drive vulnerable people (literally) crazy.”

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Professor Warns of “Nightmare” Bots That Prey on Vulnerable People

By Kelly Catalfamo

Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.

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Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

Google and Alphabet are under fire from their own investors over weak whistleblower protection and poor human rights enforcement.

Google Investors Condemn Company for Punishing Whistleblowers

By Dan Robitzski

If companies want to save money, it would make more sense to replace executives with AI rather than their lower-paid workers.

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Should Overpaid CEOs Be Replaced With Artificial Intelligence?

By Dan Robitzski

Authorities suspect that Kremlin operatives have used the deepfakes in order to gain information against Alexei Navalny's opposition movement.

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Russia Accused of Using Deepfakes to Imitate Political Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran

Google Earth just released a huge update to its time-lapse function, creating 3D, 35-year time-lapses of the entire planet.

Watch Humanity Mold the Planet in Amazing Google Earth Time-Lapse

By Dan Robitzski

Android's Digital Wellbeing app is about to start warning users to stop using their phones and to pay attention while they walk around.

Google Testing Feature That Scolds You For Using Smartphone While Walking

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater AI is getting better and better at crafting arguments. We're dreading what will happen when that thing makes its way to the public.

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New AI Is Designed to Debate People, and It Could Ruin Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Janelle Shane trained the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write some incredible pickup lines. We think they have a shot at actually working.

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You Should Definitely Try These Horrible Pickup Lines Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

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An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook released a new video, showing off a prototype of a wrist-worn device meant to serve as a controller for its upcoming augmented reality glasses.

Facebook’s Neural Wristband Actually Sounds Pretty Cool

By Victor Tangermann

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.

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Algorithm Detects Deepfakes by Analyzing Reflections in Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

According to a new blog post, Facebook is hoping to hook up its upcoming AR glasses to a "soft wristband" that can control them.

Facebook Shows Off Neural “Wristbands” to Control AR Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

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

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann