1474 Results From "automation"

Federal investigators have released a preliminary report into a deadly crash involving a Tesla Model S that killed two men near Houston, Texas, last month.
Tesla

Investigators Release New Details About Deadly Tesla Crash

Fearing potential misuse, OpenAI cut off the customizeable chatbot Samantha, which had been used to emulate a dead fiancée, from its algorithm GPT-3.
OpenAI

OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-3 Bot Used To Emulate Dead Fiancée

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.
Facial recognition

Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

Tesla's massive stamping machine, perhaps one of the largest of its kind, caught on fire at the company's factory in Fremont, California.
Tesla

Huge Assembly Line Machine Catches on Fire at Tesla Factory

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.
Robot Dogs

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.
Artificial Intelligence

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely
Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

Members of the UK parliament recently put forth a motion that calls for the end of automated bots reselling hardware at prices "greatly above" MSRP.
Future Society

The UK May Outlaw Scalping With Bots

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

A startup called Veritone is launching a platform that will let celebrities deepfake their own voice to record ads and endorsements.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Lets Checked-Out Influencers Deepfake Themselves for Product Endorsements

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.
Artificial Intelligence

People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

Recent claims that AI can pick up facial expressions to determine how you're feeling are almost certainly wrong, a Microsoft AI expert argues.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Scientist: Emotion-Reading AI Is Doomed To Fail

The value of fell down to just below $50,000, the first time it did so since early March. Analysts suggest it could be related to Biden's capital gains tax.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Crashes, Wiping Over $200 Billion Off Crypto Market

To SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the only way to "make life multiplanetary" is to "create rapidly and fully reusable orbital rockets."
Starship

Elon Musk Celebrates Starship Landing: “Needed to Make Life Multiplanetary”

Space Tango, a Kentucky-based space startup, is planning to launch its own tiny orbital research platform in a matter of just two years.
Off-World

Kentucky Startup Plans to Launch Teeny Tiny Space Station

Biden's FCC is finally starting to crack down on robocallers, enacting a law that gives them the power to give out fines.
Future Society

The United States Says It’s Finally Cracking Down on Robocalls

Robot creator Boston Dynamics has released its next dastardly take on God's creations: the "Stretch," forever destined to stack boxes in warehouses.
Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off New Warehouse Robot

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.
Robotics

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

A man from Scandinavia says he was paired with his younger self doing explicit sexual acts when he recently logged back on to Omegle.
Future Society

Guy Logs Onto Omegle and Gets Matched With Himself, Doing Explicit Acts

Killer drones are already making airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report. 
Robots and Machines

Academics: Ban the Killer “Slaughterbots” Before We All Die