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A new subset of 7,500 unmodified photographs of natural objects is still able to completely throw AIs for a loop.

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Why AIs Have No Idea What’s In These Mundane Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of musicians-turned-programmers used a John Coltrane record to train a neural network, and the result is provocative.

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Jazz Generated by a Neural Network Is Absolutely Terrifying

By Jon Christian

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.

Facebook And Google Know All Your Kinks

By Dan Robitzski

Google has reportedly decided to halt plans for launching a censored search engine in China."We have terminated Project Dragonfly."

Google “Terminated” Its Chinese Search Engine Plans

By Victor Tangermann

Oakland, California's city council just voted unanimously to ban all municipal uses of facial recognition tech within its borders.

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The City of Oakland Votes to Ban Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's new electronic tongue Hypertaste is portable, fast, and capable of identifying a range of liquids, filling a gap in today's offerings.

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IBM Unveils New “Electronic Tongue” to Taste and Identify Liquids

By Kristin Houser

A new AI system tracks people's tiny, involuntary eye movements to identify them, sort of like an ocular fingerprint scanner.

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New AI Identifies People by Their Minuscule Eye Movements

By Dan Robitzski

Someone used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 film "The Shining."

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Oh No: Someone Deepfaked Jim Carrey Into “The Shining”

By Jon Christian

We're one step closer to invisibility cloaks thanks to a new artificial intelligence that designs metamaterials with specific optical properties.

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This AI Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloaks

By Kristin Houser

An AI-developed flu vaccine is now undergoing clinical trials, meaning we could be headed toward an era of fewer flus and more AI-developed drugs.

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First Human Drug Developed Solely by AI Is a Vaccine

By Kristin Houser

During a speech at the National Conservatism conference, Peter Thiel called for the CIA and FBI to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China.

Peter Thiel: Investigate Google For “Treasonous” Ties With China

By Dan Robitzski

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Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players

By Victor Tangermann

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.

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Expert: Future Robots Could Steal Your Children

By Kristin Houser

Scientist have created an AI glass that can recognize images without any need for sensors, circuits, or even a power source.

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Scientists Create an AI From a Sheet of Glass

By Kristin Houser

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.

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The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

By Kristin Houser

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.

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AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

Facebooks is changing how it ranks "miracle cures" and unproven medical treatments — but will it be enought to stem the medical misinformation tide?

Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

By Kristin Houser

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.

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This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

By Kristin Houser

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.

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World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

By Kristin Houser

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.

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Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

By Dan Robitzski

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.

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Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.

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Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

By Dan Robitzski

Google scientists trained a neural net to better navigate spaces with an archive of thousands of "Mannequin Challenge" videos.

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A Neural Net Used a Viral Meme to Learn to Navigate

By Dan Robitzski

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.

Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."

Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News

By Kristin Houser

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.

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Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021

By Kristin Houser

A new website illustrates how AI can now churn out believable blog posts, in this case focused on digital marketing strategies.

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New AI Generates Infinite Horrible Marketing Sites

By Dan Robitzski

Spice manufacturer McCormick's new concept grill uses AI to create a soundtrack to the act of grilling, proving AI can't make everything better.

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This Ridiculous Grill Proves We Don’t Need AI for Everything

By Kristin Houser

Scientists developed an AI "vaccine" that can make algorithms more resistant to hackers who launch adversarial attacks to try and confuse the systems.

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An AI “Vaccine” Can Block Adversarial Attacks

By Dan Robitzski

A new pizza AI out of MIT can look at a photo of pizza and determine the ingredients on it as well as the order in which they were added.

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MIT’s New AI Can Look at a Pizza, and Tell You How to Make It

By Kristin Houser

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.

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Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

By Dan Robitzski

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.

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Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

By Dan Robitzski

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.

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Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.

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Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes

By Kristin Houser

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.

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AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

By Dan Robitzski

A major auto manufacturing alliance has tapped Google to create the next generation of built-in media displays for its vehicles.

Google Thinks It Can Make Your Car’s Dashboard Not Suck

By Kristin Houser

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.

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A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

By Dan Robitzski

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A Spy Used a Deepfake Photo to Infiltrate LinkedIn Networks

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.

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Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

By Dan Robitzski

San Francisco hopes an AI-powered tool that redacts information from police reports will eliminate racial bias from the suspect-charging process.

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San Francisco Is Using AI to Try to Make Courts Less Racist

By Kristin Houser

A member of the quickly disbanded Google AI ethics board says lawmakers need to approach regulating the company like it's a "world power."

Professor: Lawmakers Must Treat Google Like A “World Power”

By Kristin Houser

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to specific faces from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.

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Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

By Dan Robitzski

By using machine learning technology, video game modders are reviving classic old games by giving their graphics a major update.

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Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

By Natalie Coleman

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New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.

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Alarming AI Clones Both a Person’s Voice and Their Speech Patterns

By Kristin Houser

To create a convincing deepfake video, all you have to do is rewrite a clip's text transcript, thanks to this terrifying new algorithm.

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Terrifying Deepfake AI Alters Vids to Match Your Transcript Edits

By Kristin Houser

Jai Paul is back with an artificial intelligence he calls an "infinite playback," which produces new takes on his classic track "Jasmine" in perpetuity.

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This AI Generates New Remixes of Jai Paul… Forever

By Jon Christian

With the help from research scientist Janelle Shane, an animal refuge created a neural network that came up with a series of weird and cute cat names.

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This Neural Network Gives Kittens A+ Names Like “Mr Sinister”

By Victor Tangermann

A new algorithm can decipher babies’ cries, telling if they're due to something "normal," such as hunger or sleepiness, or a sign of distress.

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Researchers Built an AI That Translates Babies’ Cries

By Kristin Houser

Google co-founder Sergey Brin needs engineers to work on his massive $150 million blimp, which could deliver supplies on humanitarian missions.

Google’s Co-Founder Is Building a Gargantuan $150 Million Blimp

By Kristin Houser

A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a variety of species, like Animorphs.

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This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy

By Natalie Coleman

Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher, who wrote her masters thesis on deep learning and "Jeopardy!", just won the classic quiz game. And we found her thesis.

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We Found “Jeopardy!” Kingslayer Emma Boettcher’s Thesis on Data Mining

By Foster Kamer

Oddly human-looking robot artist Ai-Da is about to launch its first exhibition — and the bot's artworks have already sold for more than $1.2 million.

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Creepy Human-Like Robot’s Art Is Selling for Astronomical Prices

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Massive Facial Recognition Database

By Victor Tangermann

A company called GLITCH is selling dresses that were designed by an AI algorithm. It hopes to support more women in science and tech.

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This Startup Is Selling “Little Black Dresses” Designed By AI

By Dan Robitzski

An artist created a neural network and programmed it to generate a human-looking face. She then had the AI forget it, neuron by neuron.

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Watch an AI Die, Neuron by Neuron

By Kristin Houser

Deepfakes have become more powerful and accessible, but presidential candidates haven't taken steps to counter computer-generated misinformation.

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Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, Google

By Dan Robitzski

The Army is accepting bids from contractors to build a rifle that could automatically targets and scan them with facial recognition.

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The US Army’s Next Rifle May Use Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing only a short audio clip of a person's voice, this artificial intelligence reconstructs what they might look like in real life.

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Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice

By Jon Christian

New York's State Education Department has asked a public school district to delay its trial of a facial recognition system on students and staff.

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State Attempts to Nix Public School’s Facial Recognition Plans

By Kristin Houser

While playing rounds of capture the flag in Quake III Arena, DeepMind's artificial intelligence was able to outperform human teammates.

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DeepMind’s Gamer AI is Better At Co-op Mode Than Human Players

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a neural net called GROVER that can create — and identify — fake news better than any human or algorithm out there.

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New AI Generates Horrifyingly Plausible Fake News

By Dan Robitzski