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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.

Facial recognition

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.

Artificial Intelligence

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

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 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.

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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’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.

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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.

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.

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United Nations: Siri and Alexa Are Encouraging Misogyny

By Kristin Houser

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Dan Robitzski

Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects

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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 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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

By Dan Robitzski

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.

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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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To Prevent the Apocalypse, MIT Says to Study “Machine Behaviour”

By Kristin Houser