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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
Artificial Intelligence

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

By Jon Christian

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

By Kristin Houser

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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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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

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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
Artificial Intelligence

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
Artificial Intelligence

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?
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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
Artificial Intelligence

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
Artificial Intelligence

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
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own

By Dan Robitzski