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Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing
Artificial Intelligence

Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing

By Victor Tangermann

Millie, an AI avatar built by Canadian startup TwentyBN, is trained to compliment people trying on new clothes so they're more likely to buy them.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Avatar Compliments While You Shop So You’ll Buy More Stuff

By Dan Robitzski

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware
Google

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

By Dan Robitzski

By the end of January 2019, Walmart plans to deploy 360 "robot janitors" capable of autonomously cleaning its stores' floors.
Artificial Intelligence

Walmart Is About to Deploy Hundreds of Robot Janitors

By Kristin Houser

In a video clip, Cimon, an AI bot designed to test robot-astronaut interactions, refuses to respond to commands and acts defensive — just like a teenager.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch the ISS’s New AI Robot Companion Act Like Kind of a Brat

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA's latest AI technology can recreate an entire 3D scene by learning from a real-life video.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Dreams Up Trippy Video Games Based on Real Life Video

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon continues to invest in healthcare and has begun selling software which analyzes patient medical records for hospitals and their physicians.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Next AI Bet: Digitizing Medical Records

By Jacob Banas

Today, the Facebook-owned Instagram announced that it will use AI to automatically identify the content of images for visually impaired users.
Artificial Intelligence

Instagram Will Use AI To Describe Images for Visually Impaired Users

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences plan to construct a deep sea base run by artificially intelligent robots.
Artificial Intelligence

China Plans to Build a Deep Sea Base Run Entirely by AI

By Kristin Houser

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.
Artificial Intelligence

Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

Startup HyperSurfaces demonstrates how its AI-powered technology can make a car door, glass wall, or clothes rack "smart."
Artificial Intelligence

See How AI Can Turn Almost Any Surface Into a User Interface

By Kristin Houser

A new pair of AI algorithms can draw lifelike caricatures. Built by Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong, the work will be shown at SIGGRAPH Asia.
Artificial Intelligence

Check Out These Impressive Caricatures Drawn By AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new app puts the task of training AIs in the hands of Ugandan refugees, who can earn the money they earn to rebuild their lives.
Artificial Intelligence

Refugees in Uganda Are Earning Money by Training AIs

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA has signed deals with three Chinese autonomous car startups to use their self-driving car platform.
Artificial Intelligence

Chip Maker NVIDIA is Bringing Its AI Driving Chip to China

By Victor Tangermann

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine
Google

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

By Dan Robitzski

As more AI research is shared with the public, more hobbyists are picking it up and building algorithms to help them with everyday life
Artificial Intelligence

How a Neural Network Runs a Family-Owned Japanese Dry Cleaner

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI system, researchers within the infant scientific discipline asteroseismology can learn more about the subsurface activity of distant stars.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Is Peering Into the Nuclear Cores of Distant Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Privacy experts are concerned that governments could use Amazon's patented accent-detection technology to violate civil rights.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn of Amazon’s Accent-Detecting Technology

By Kristin Houser

In a new video, tech company Synthesia demonstrates its AI-powered dubbing tech, which could make it easy for others to create deepfakes.
Artificial Intelligence

See the Translation Tech Lawmakers Say “Threatens Democracy” in Action

By Kristin Houser

A team of Harvard scientists just launched a new initiative to steer the U.S. towards better AI policy. Soon, they'll teach Congress the basics.
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Is Launching an “AI Bootcamp” For Tech-Phobic Lawmakers

By Dan Robitzski

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.
Google

Google Trained a Neural Net to Write Cringey Song Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and software company Autodesk used AI to create a spider-like NASA lander.
Artificial Intelligence

See the Spider-Like Lunar Lander Developed By AI

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at Aalborg University in Denmark are proposing to use AI robots to survey water pipes under the ground. And it could save cities millions.
Artificial Intelligence

Surveillance Robots Could Help Maintain Sewer Systems

By Victor Tangermann

Google Is Making An “AI-Powered Assistant for Nurses and Doctors”
Google

Google Is Making An “AI-Powered Assistant for Nurses and Doctors”

By Kristin Houser

A Google AI team has created an AI capable of identifying new speakers in audio clips even if it's never heard the speakers before.
Google

Google’s New AI Can Recognize Voices It’s Never Heard Before

By Kristin Houser

Unilever has teamed up with a squad of academics and electronics manufacturers to create a gadget that'll tell you if you have body odor.
Machine Learning

A Deodorant Maker is Using Machine Learning to Detect Your B.O.

By Jon Christian

A combination of machine learning and new data gathering tools could help warn firefighters in California earlier and possibly even save lives.
Machine Learning

How Machine Learning Could Help California Fight Wildfires

By Jon Christian

How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning
Machine Learning

How Facebook Flags Terrorist Content With Machine Learning

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart plans to create an Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL) in its Levittown location to explore how AI could improve the shopping experience.
Artificial Intelligence

Walmart Wants to Use AI to Track Everything Happening in Its Stores

By Kristin Houser

The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) has selected 31 students to participate in a four-year-long program focused on developing AI weapons.
Artificial Intelligence

China Recruits “Patriotic” Children to Develop Its AI Weapons

By Kristin Houser

Dubai Police have officially started training its officers how to operate Hoversurf's hoverbikes. But will they actually be useful?
Artificial Intelligence

Dubai Police Are Training Officers to Fly Hoverbikes

By Victor Tangermann

Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, issued a dire warning of a future where facial recognition tech helps the government track civilians. He's helping it.
Facial recognition

Microsoft President Warns Of “1984” Facial Recognition Future

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state media agency Xinhua just revealed the world's first "AI anchor." But it's not going to fool anybody.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet The World’s First AI News Anchor

By Victor Tangermann

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20
Artificial Intelligence

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

By Dan Robitzski

A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at MIT developed a machine learning model that can detect depression by analyzing speech and the way patients talk.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell If You’re Depressed by Listening to You Talk

By Victor Tangermann

A new gadget uses machine learning to identify pollen and spores — and it could eventually give you a better sense of the air you're breathing.
Artificial Intelligence

This Gadget Tells You Exactly What Allergens You’re Inhaling

By Jon Christian

A new AI agent taught itself, using reinforcement learning, how to get dressed in the morning. The results could make animation much easier on artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Having a Bad Day? An Adorable Video Shows AI Learning to Get Dressed

By Dan Robitzski

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday
Artificial Intelligence

More Robots Means Fewer Seasonal Workers for Amazon This Holiday

By Victor Tangermann

A new machine learning algorithm built by 20th Century Fox can compare movie trailers and predict which films will appeal to an audience.
Machine Learning

Fox is Using Machine Learning to Predict Which Movies Will be Hits

By Dan Robitzski

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Malta launched a new AI task force to develop a plan for safe, effective, beneficial AI. It will also determine how a robot might earn citizenship.
Artificial Intelligence

The Island Nation Malta Created a Citizenship Test for Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Why Should We Bother Building Human-Level AI? Five Experts Weigh In

By Dan Robitzski

A vaping detection system with AI-powered sensors is alerting officials in the U.S. and Canada to the signs of vaping in school bathrooms.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers

By Kristin Houser

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

By Victor Tangermann

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.
Artificial Intelligence

The White House AI Task Force Wants To Open the AI Floodgates. Here’s How They Should Do It.

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced a $25 million contest that asks people to develop AI systems that actually benefit society for a change.
Google

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

By Dan Robitzski

Spain is rolling out an AI lie detector called VeriPol at many of its police stations, which uses machine learning to flag false police reports.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Lie Detector Flags Falsified Police Reports

By Jon Christian

One AI conference has refused changing its notoriously alienating name.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Conference Refusing a Name Change Highlights a Tech Industry Problem

By Dan Robitzski

AI could help predict earthquakes
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Scientists Are Hopeful AI Could Help Predict Earthquakes

By Jon Christian

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AI Dreamed Up These Nightmare Fuel Halloween Masks

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

A Work of AI-Generated Art Just Sold For Vastly More Than Expected

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

Here Are the Jobs of the Future That Robots Won’t Be Able to Fill

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

An IBM AI Invented Perfumes That’ll Soon Sell in 4,000 Stores

By Jon Christian

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Facial recognition

Report: Amazon Tried to Sell Facial Recognition Tech to ICE

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

This Startup Is Paying Strangers to Train AIs

By Jon Christian

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course
Google

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

By Kristin Houser

These ever-so-edgy novelists are using artificial intelligence to spit out new books. We're over it, to be perfectly honest.
Artificial Intelligence

Novelists Have a Boring New Gimmick: Writing Dull Books With AI

By Jon Christian

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm

By Kristin Houser

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Researchers Bringing Bizarre AI Creations to Life

By Dan Robitzski

In 2017, Bina48 became the first AI-powered robot to complete a college-level course, and now, it's the first to co-teach one.
Artificial Intelligence

A Humanoid Robot Gave a Lecture in a West Point Philosophy Course

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a way to predict if a person was going to be depressed by analyzing their Facebook data.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell if You’re Depressed by Reading Your Facebook Posts

By Victor Tangermann

Employees, ACLU Demand Amazon Stop Facilitating Government Surveillance
Artificial Intelligence

Employees, ACLU Demand Amazon Stop Facilitating Government Surveillance

By Kristin Houser