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Google will ban any marijuana or THC products from being sold over apps available on its platform, likely in a bid to be more child-friendly.
Google

Google Bans Weed Delivery Apps From Play Store

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's new privacy updates for its Alexa voice assistant are a step in the right direction, but the company still has a lot of ground to make up.
Artificial Intelligence

You Can Now Tell Alexa to Delete Everything You Said Today

By Kristin Houser

Google's multi-year, multi-million dollar research project into cold fusion reached a disheartening conclusion: there's no evidence the phenomenon exists.
Google

Google’s $10 Million Cold Fusion Project Has Failed

By Kristin Houser

To improve mosque security, the Keep Mosques Safe initiative is financing the installation of an AI-powered security system in mosques worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

Security Company to Install Gun-Detecting AI in Mosques Worldwide

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Programmers are creating sexist AI voice assistants, which are then encouraging users to be sexist, according to a new UN report.
Artificial Intelligence

United Nations: Siri and Alexa Are Encouraging Misogyny

By Kristin Houser

Imma, a CGI fashion model, just scored a make-up modeling gig for a Japanese cosmetics brand.
Artificial Intelligence

Can You Tell Which of These Models Is CGI?

By Victor Tangermann

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

By Jon Christian

An amazing new deepfake algorithm turns single frames into full-motion videos, reminiscent of photographs and paintings in the "Harry Potter" series.
Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Algorithm Turns Still Portraits Into Full-Motion Videos

By Jon Christian

The app Juicebox developed an AI chatbot, named Slutbot, that flirts and sexts with people while helping them learn about consent and respect.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Where You Can Flirt With a Sexting AI Called Slutbot

By Dan Robitzski

A new type of AI built by Amazon's Alexa team is better at picking up on emotions when people are talking. It could help Alexa better understand people.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Analyze Your Emotions

By Dan Robitzski

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn has donated more than $1 million to various organizations attempting to prevent an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

Skype Co-Founder Desperate to Stop AI From Destroying Humanity

By Kristin Houser

Police in the UK must defend their use of facial recognition tech in court for the first time, and the court's ruling could set a powerful precedent.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Takes Police to Court for Scanning His Face Without Consent

By Kristin Houser

Canada-based startup Dessa has unveiled a new AI that replicates the voice of Joe Rogan, and it's perhaps the best audio deepfake yet.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI That Sounds Just Like Joe Rogan Should Terrify Us All

By Kristin Houser

The 1998 trip-hop album Mezzanine by Massive Attack got an artificial intelligence makeover at an art exhibit in London.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Remixed Massive Attack’s Classic Album “Mezzanine”

By Victor Tangermann

Google is working on a speech translation system that retains the original speaker's voice and cadence in the outputted audio.
Google

Amazing Google AI Speaks Another Language In Your Voice

By Kristin Houser

NYPD detectives uploaded a photo of Woody Harrelson to their facial recognition system to find a suspect that they thought resembled the actor.
Facial recognition

Police Catch Woody Harrelson Look-Alike Using Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to pass a facial recognition ban, and the move has the potential to inspire others to follow suit.
Facial recognition

Tech Hub San Francisco First US City to Ban Facial Recognition

By Kristin Houser

A dialed-back version of the "dangerous" text-generating AI system by OpenAI is available to test online. We had some fun, but it's pretty impressive.
OpenAI

Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s “Dangerous” Fake News AI

By Dan Robitzski

Conceptual sound artist and composer Holly Herndon released her new artificial intelligence-inspired album "PROTO" today.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s What an Album Between a Musician and an “AI Baby” Sounds Like

By Victor Tangermann

The AIs used by Facebook and other social media companies to filter out extremist content may also be deleting valuable evidence of criminal activity.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s AI May Be Helping Terrorists Get Away With Murder

By Kristin Houser

"Dalí Lives" uses deepfake AI technology to create an interactive art exhibit where Salvador Dalí interacts with museum guests.
Artificial Intelligence

A Salvador Dalí Deepfake Can Take Selfies With Museumgoers

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is not only failing to detect Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups on its platform, it's algorithmically generating content for them.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Cheers on Charming Local Business Al-Qaeda’s “Great Year”

By Dan Robitzski

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects
Facial recognition

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects

By Kristin Houser

Google is launching a series of gender-fluid emoji for its smartphones, the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols more inclusive.
Google

Google Is Adding 53 Gender-Fluid Emoji to Its Smartphones

By Kristin Houser

Google announced its creepy auto-calling assistant feature a year ago. Since then, many restaurants are choosing to hang up instead.
Google

Restaurants Are Ignoring Calls From Google’s Smart Assistant

By Victor Tangermann

Google Ventures has pumped money into Verve Therapeutics, a startup that wants to use CRISPR to create a "one-and-done" therapy for heart disease.
Google

Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease

By Kristin Houser

The new Microsoft Ideas feature for Word uses artificial intelligence to ensure your writing doesn't feature non-inclusive language.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Word’s New “AI Editor” Scolds You for Gendered Language

By Kristin Houser

After investing $2.5 billion into a robot-controlled hedge fund and losing millions, Samathur Li Kin-kan is suing the company that sold him on the AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Investor Sues After an AI’s Automated Trades Cost Him $20 Million

By Kristin Houser

As deepfakes and AI-generated "photos" become more common, we all need tools to discern fact from fiction. A new website came up with tips and a test.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial intelligence-powered pun generator created by Stanford Researchers attempts to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google employee Tristan Harris says that your smartphone isn't listening in on you. It doesn't have to because Google already knows everything.
Google

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.
Google

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Facial recognition

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

By Victor Tangermann

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI
Artificial Intelligence

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. 
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Facial recognition

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Facial recognition

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Facial recognition

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Machine Learning

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Facial recognition

New York’s Facial Recognition Trial Was a Complete Failure

By Kristin Houser