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Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine
Google

Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine

By Kristin Houser

It's easy to fall for all of the marketing and hype, but artificial intelligence isn't half as robust as many want you to believe.
Artificial Intelligence

You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does

By Dan Robitzski

MIT announced a billion-dollar initiative Monday that will reorganize the tech school to confront the rise of artificial intelligence.
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MIT Pledges $1 Billion to Develop Ethical AI

By Jon Christian

Laws outlining China's expectations for tech companies in a Muslim-heavy region add to the morally questionable nature of Google's Project Dragonfly.
Google

China Wants Google’s Help Persecuting Muslims. Google Appears Ready to Give It.

By Kristin Houser

The number of AI-trained job-seekers simply isn't high enough to meet the demand for these employees, according to a new Reuters report.
Artificial Intelligence

A Shortage of Trained Job-Seekers Is Holding AI Back

By Kristin Houser

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present
Artificial Intelligence

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present

By Luke Kingma

Amazon Built an AI to Evaluate Job Applicants. One Problem: It Seemed Sexist.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Built an AI to Evaluate Job Applicants. One Problem: It Seemed Sexist.

By Jon Christian

Google announced it found a privacy bug that allowed third-party developers to access private user data seven months ago. And that's far too late.
Google

Google Didn’t Report Its Data Leak Till Months Later. Now It’ll Face the Consequences.

By Victor Tangermann

A European aquaculture giant that says it's working on a facial recognition system to track the health of millions of salmon.
Facial recognition

Farmers Are Using Facial Recognition to Keep Farmed Fish Healthy

By Jon Christian

Google withdrew itself from the running for the Pentagon's JEDI contract, but the reasons it gave for the move are worth questioning.
Google

Google Won’t Bid on Pentagon Contract, but Not Just Because Employees Wanted It To

By Kristin Houser

Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal
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Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal

By Jon Christian

This Brain-Analyzing AI Could Kill Your Dream of Being a Professional Athlete
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This Brain-Analyzing AI Could Kill Your Dream of Being a Professional Athlete

By Kristin Houser

A series of neural nets wrote a novel based on what it saw and heard while being driven around the country. It's, uh, interesting.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Took a Road Trip and Wrote a Terrible Novel About It

By Dan Robitzski

Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?
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Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?

By Luke Kingma

Google DeepMind built the largest-scale generative adversarial network to date. The algorithm can make photorealistic pictures of burgers and dogs.
Google

Google Used Its Most Sophisticated AI yet to Create Pictures of Burgers

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Chinese researchers has created software that can predict whether a coma patient will wake up or not. Can it replace human decision-making?
Machine Learning

Should Coma Patients Live or Die? Machine Learning Will Help Decide.

By Victor Tangermann

Automation is eating into food and hospitality jobs. Unions are demanding measures that will protect staff from being replaced by robots.
Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Coming for Service Jobs

By Jon Christian

Researchers have created an AI that can identify a person with 92 percent accuracy after recording just seven consecutive footsteps.
Artificial Intelligence

Tread Lightly: This AI Can Identify You by Monitoring Your Footsteps

By Kristin Houser

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This AI Stops People From Lighting up Cigarettes at the Gas Pump

By Kristin Houser

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This Musician Created an AI to Write Songs For Him, And They’re Pretty Strange

By Kristin Houser

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts
Google

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?
Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?

By Foster Kamer

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think
Artificial Intelligence

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think

By Dan Robitzski

MIT data scientists say a new approach that uses deep learning to detect credit card fraud could cut false positives in half.
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New AI Could Stop Your Bank From Freezing Your Card When You Buy Something Weird

By Jon Christian

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems
Google

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems

By Jon Christian

Mild-Mannered Botnet Hunts Down Malware so It Can Fix It
Artificial Intelligence

Mild-Mannered Botnet Hunts Down Malware so It Can Fix It

By Jon Christian

Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore
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Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore

By Kristin Houser

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs

By Kristin Houser

Lawmakers: Deepfakes Could “Undermine Public Trust” in “Objective Depictions of Reality”
Artificial Intelligence

Lawmakers: Deepfakes Could “Undermine Public Trust” in “Objective Depictions of Reality”

By Jon Christian

Researchers Just Got Funding to Grow a Neural Network in a Petri Dish
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Just Got Funding to Grow a Neural Network in a Petri Dish

By Jon Christian

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News
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A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

By Dan Robitzski

Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human
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Behold: A Robot That Can Do Improv Comedy Just as Badly as a Human

By Jon Christian

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China Spotlight: Next AI Superpower?

By Peter H. Diamandis

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses
Artificial Intelligence

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses

By Dan Robitzski

Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect Our Future.
Artificial Intelligence

Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect Our Future.

By Daniel Wagner

MIT’s New Robot Can Visually Understand Objects It’s Never Seen Before
Artificial Intelligence

MIT’s New Robot Can Visually Understand Objects It’s Never Seen Before

By Kristin Houser

Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans
Artificial Intelligence

Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans

By Kristin Houser

Google’s New Search Engine Could Solve a Major Problem in the Scientific Community
Google

Google’s New Search Engine Could Solve a Major Problem in the Scientific Community

By Kristin Houser

Artificial intelligence agents in a simulated environment developed became biased against dissimilar agents without any outside influence.
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Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own

By Dan Robitzski

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Artificial Intelligence Could Be The Key To Longevity [Affiliate]

By Peter H. Diamandis

Artificial intelligence will change life for the better. But there are reasons to be cautious as well. Five experts tell Futurism what most worries them.
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Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI

By Dan Robitzski

A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias
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A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias

By Kristin Houser

Amazon Wants to Mine Data From the (Literal) Stars
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Amazon Wants to Mine Data From the (Literal) Stars

By Kristin Houser

A new kind of artificial intelligence is able to recognize and remember objects in a way that's a lot more like humans and a lot less like algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence

New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an AI that can predict the location of earthquake aftershocks far more accurately than the best available model.
Google

Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely

By Kristin Houser

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
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Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of venture capitalists and other experts on financing AI startups agree: to get a truly general AI system, governments will need to step up.
Artificial Intelligence

If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest In It

By Dan Robitzski

Humanity is terrible at planning for the distant future. If we build advanced artificial intelligence, it might save us from ourselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could

By Dan Robitzski

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand
Artificial Intelligence

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand

By Kristin Houser

During a major tournament for the strategy game DOTA 2, human gamers emerged victorious over OpenAI Five, a team of five neural networks.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Couldn’t Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own

By Kristin Houser

A pilot program using facial recognition tech at airports catches a man from the Republic of Congo presenting a passport that didn't belong to him.
Facial recognition

Facial Recognition Tech Catches Traveler With Fake Papers

By Kristin Houser

AI-Generated Art Will Go On Sale Alongside Human-Made Works This Fall
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Art Will Go On Sale Alongside Human-Made Works This Fall

By Kristin Houser

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair
Artificial Intelligence

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair

By Dan Robitzski

Director Tony Kaye's next movie with have a robot star, an AI-powered bot that he claims will be trained in acting techniques.
Artificial Intelligence

A Robot Will Become A Real-Life Movie Star

By Kristin Houser

Google employees have once again sounded the ethics alarm over the company's actions, this time in reference to its planned Chinese search app.
Google

Google Employees Have Become the Company’s Moral Compass

By Kristin Houser

An investigative report by the Associated Press reveals that turning off location tracking doesn't actually stop Google from recording your location.
Google

Google May Still Be Tracking You, Even If You Opted Out

By Kristin Houser

Anew AI developed by MIT researchers can prescribe the minimum effective dose for patient with an aggressive type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Make Sure Cancer Patients Get Just Enough (but Not Too Much) Treatment

By Kristin Houser

Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter.
Facial recognition

Facial Recognition Tool That Tracks People Across Social Media Now Available to Hackers

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI than can find scientists that deserve (but don't have) Wikipedia pages, helping close the site's gender gap.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Shining a Spotlight on Women Scientists That Were Previously Overlooked

By Kristin Houser

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side
Google

Three Signs Google Is Turning to the Dark Side

By Kristin Houser

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round
Google

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

By Jacob Banas

Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to launch a censored search engine in China, a nation that strictly monitors the content its citizens can access.
Google

Google’s Censored Chinese Search Engine Shows It’s No Longer Afraid of U.S. Backlash

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages
Meta

Facebook Just Shut Down Dozens of Fake Pages

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

By Kristin Houser