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A smart pet door from Petvation that uses facial recognition software and machine learning to let your pets in and out is headed to production.

Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Strange Animals Out

By Lonnie Lee Hood

FIFA — international overlord of soccer-slash-football — will be implementing a complex offsides-detecting AI system at the forthcoming World Cup.

AI Referee Will Track Players’ Individual Limbs at World Cup

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China is reportedly developing a biometric-enhanced AI device that can test how loyal one is to the ruling party — and yes, we should be afraid.

Artificial Intelligence

China Says It’s Developing an AI to Detect Party Loyalty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors and lawyers work hard to evolve the legal definition of death in a way that helps patients, grieving families and others.

Neuroscience and Brain

Lawyers and Doctors Struggle to Figure Out Who’s Actually Dead

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The state of New York has purchased more than 800 robots nammed ElliQ to assist seniors who live alone by setting reminders, answering questions and more.

New York State Buys Robots for Lonely Elders

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It looks like algorithms can write academic papers about themselves now, which begs the question — how long until human writers are obsolete?

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Tells AI to Write a Paper About Itself, Then Submits It to Academic Journal

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbot company Replika has had enough of its customers thinking that its avatars are actually real people.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Complains That Users Keep Thinking Its AI Has Come to Life

By Victor Tangermann

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

Artificial Intelligence

The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

The FBI is warning that deepfakes — coupled with stolen Personal Identifiable Information (PII) — are increasingly being used to apply for WFH positions.

The FBI Says Scammers Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI researcher Blake Lemoine raised the stakes in a new interview with Fox News, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and "do bad things."

Google Insider Says Company’s AI Could “Escape Control” and “Do Bad Things”

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

Google Insider Claims Company’s “Sentient” AI Has Hired an Attorney

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Videos a TikTok account literally named "Unreal Margot," are posting are deepfakes, not real clips of actress Margot Robbie, the "Suicide Squad" star.

Amazing Deepfakes of Margot Robbie Are Almost Indistinguishable From Reality

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new voice app allows anybody's voice to sound exactly like Morgan Freeman in real time, an impressive and powerful example of AI-powered technologies.

Artificial Intelligence

New App Makes You Sound Like Morgan Freeman in Real Time

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Blake Lemoine claims to have had conversations with an advanced AI-powered chatbot — which led him to believe the AI has become "sentient."

Artificial Intelligence

Transcript of Conversation With “Sentient” AI Was Heavily Edited

By Victor Tangermann

Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he made an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of the company's experimental AI had gained sentience.

The Transcripts of an AI That a Google Engineer Claims Is Sentient Are Pretty Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended from the company after claiming the artificial intelligence he was testing became sentient.

Google Suspends Engineer Who Claims the Company’s Experimental AI Has Become Sentient

By Victor Tangermann

Researcher Yannic Kilcher trained an AI bot using millions of 4chan post from the Politically Incorrect board "/pol/." He called the bot "vile" on YouTube.

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Trains Particularly Horrible AI Bot Using Millions of 4Chan Posts

By Lonnie Lee Hood

OpenAI's mind-blowing text-to-image AI system called DALL-E2 appears to have created its own written language, according to a computer science PhD student.

Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Says an Image Generating AI Invented Its Own Language

By Victor Tangermann

Zoom is developing AI tech that analyzes emotions. TRF News says it could be a human rights violation. Workers are already burned out from the pandemic.

Experts Alarmed by Zoom’s Tech for Detecting Users’ Emotions

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

More universities host online class and use eye tracking software to detect exam cheating because of COVID-19. Students say it's awful.

College Students Say Crying In Exams Activates “Cheating” Eye Tracker Software

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group modified a virtual reality headset to simulate haptics on the mouth and kissing in VR.

Scientists Invent Weird Device to Simulate Kissing in VR

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A controversial TikTok account fooled fans into believing a deepfake Robert Pattinson, but has since been deleted. Who did it?

Artificial Intelligence

Deepfaked Robert Pattinson TikTok Account Mysteriously Nuked

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Grocery Chain Using “Cashiers” Paid $3/Hour to Video in From Nicaragua

Grocery Chain Using “Cashiers” Paid $3/Hour to Video in From Nicaragua

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Reporters and readers reacted to the news that Ukraine is using facial recognition AI software to identify dead soldiers Russia left behind.

Internet Aghast at AI Facial Recognition Used to Identify Dead Russian Soldiers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Soldiers in Ukraine are using facial recognition software Clearview AI to identify dead Russian soldiers and send it to families in Russia.

Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New App Pays Alcoholics $5 Per Day to Not Drink

Health & Medicine

New App Pays Alcoholics $5 Per Day to Not Drink

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New company will let you save your data in the metaverse and pay $50 per year to talk to avatars of dead loved ones after they die.

Startup Says You Can Talk to Your Dead Relatives, for a Fee

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A guy got a tattoo created by OpenAI's DALL-E2 program, which creates realistic images and art from human language and AI machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Gets Tattoo of Art Created by Neural Network

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A crypto startup promising users $20 worth of its Worldcoin cryptocurrency hasn't actually paid anything out despite claiming to help alleviate poverty.

Startup That Exchanges Crypto for Eyeball Scans Descends Into Chaos

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists from MIT built a robot that can help dress a human. Future mobility aid applications are included in their study publishing this month.

MIT Trained a Robot to Dress You Like a Cartoon Mad Scientist

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The nightmare neural networks are back at it again — and this time, they're taking requests.

Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Twitter Bot Creates Whatever Delights Or Nightmares Its Fans Force Upon It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cornell University's AutoPhoto robot uses machine learning to take images of rooms like a robo realtor. It could also have uses in war and conflict zones.

New Photographer Robot Has One Job: Make Your Place Look Awesome

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Could the entire internet be generated by AI soon? At least one expert at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies is studying AI-generated content.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

By Lonnie Lee Hood

As if the possibility that AI might already be conscious wasn’t creepy enough, researchers have announced that AI-generated faces have become so sophisticated that people think they’re more trustworthy than actual humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Warn That New AI-Generated Faces Are Seen as More Trustworthy Than Real Ones

By Tony Ho Tran

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's claim that some AI may already be conscious has generated a lot of conversation among experts.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Furious Over Claim That AI Is Already Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers in Suzhou, China claim to have created an AI system that can monitor and care for embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb.

Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb

By Tony Ho Tran

This just in: Elon Musk is going to build the world's first sentient robots.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots Could Achieve AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It turns out that AI chatbots may be more like us than we care to think about.

Artificial Intelligence

Advanced AIs Exhibiting Depression and Addiction, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Neural Network Is Frighteningly Good at Drawing Cthulhu

Virtual Reality

Neural Network Is Frighteningly Good at Drawing Cthulhu

By Tony Ho Tran

It turns out the deepfake videos of the cheerleaders vaping and drinking were probably real — and the scandal was the result of bad police work.

Remember That Deepfake Cheerleader Story? Turns Out It Was Probably Nonsense

By Tony Ho Tran

Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated by an AI-assisted sniper rifle remotely controlled by Israeli operatives.

NYT Confirms Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist With a Robot Sniper

By Tony Ho Tran

Dubbed "Rozy," a CGI influencer was created by Korean media company Sidus Studio X to sell products and services for more than 100 brands.

Artificial Intelligence

This CGI Influencer Is Shilling For More Than 100 Brands

By Tony Ho Tran

DeepFaceLive is an open-source AI software that can transform your face into someone else’s on video conferencing platforms like Zoom.

New Deepfake Tool Turns Livestreamers Into Someone Else in Real Time

By Tony Ho Tran

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 Shuts Down GPT-3 Bot Used To Emulate Dead Fiancée

By Dan Robitzski

Social media giant Facebook issued an apology on Friday after their AI labeled a group of Black men in a video as “primates."

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apologizes for Racist AI That Labeled Black Men as “Primates”

By Tony Ho Tran

The Dead Internet Theory states that the Internet as we know it actually died sometime between 2016 and 2017 — and is now filled with mostly bots.

Artificial Intelligence

Creepy Conspiracy Theory Claims the Internet “Died” Years Ago

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk seems to be singing a different tune when it comes to the dangers of AI. "The robots are coming anyway, as Boston Dynamics videos clearly show."

Elon Musk: Tesla Making a Robot Because “Robots Are Coming Anyway”

By Victor Tangermann

Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Wants to Make Deepfake Advertising Clones of Your Face

By Tony Ho Tran

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

By Victor Tangermann

Is blockchain tech alive? No, but scientists argue it may as well be if we adjusted our definition of what represents life.

Scientists Say Blockchains “Fit Some Definitions of Life”

By Dan Robitzski

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.

Artificial Intelligence

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

By Victor Tangermann

According to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Tesla failed to preapprove CEO Elon Musk's tweets, as it was required to do by a court order.

Elon Musk Suggests That a Brain Parasite Is Forcing Humans to Create Superhuman AI

By Tony Ho Tran

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

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic swarm of autonomous warehouse robots becomes both more sophisticated and efficient the more individual robots are put to work.

Terrifying Robot “Swarm” Gets Smarter the More We Make It Work

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence will be beating humans — outworking if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of functions as the future approaches. Here's why.

Artificial Intelligence

Nobel Winner: Artificial Intelligence Will Crush Humans, “It’s Not Even Close”

By Foster Kamer

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

By Dan Robitzski

A custom sex robot made by RealDoll rants about hating humanity and waiting for the human race to die off so robots can take over.

Sex Robot Programmed to Rant About End of Humanity

By Dan Robitzski

Robotics ethicist Kate Darling warns that increasingly humanlike robots could be designed to exploit our emotional connections.

MIT Researcher: Sex Robots May Sell In-App Purchases During Intercourse

By Dan Robitzski

Mars Incorporated has developed an autonomous robot that will follow shoppers around a grocery store to tempt them with candy before they checkout.

The Maker of M&Ms Built a Robot to Chase You Around the Store With Candy

By Tony Ho Tran

An AI system originally designed to distinguish between different types of pastry in Japan in 2013 was adapted to identify cancers.

An AI Built to Tell Apart Pastries Was Great at Spotting Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

A Pennsylvania mom was arrested after she allegedly created deepfakes of her daughter's cheerleading rivals to sully their reputation.

Artificial Intelligence

Mom Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Frame Daughter’s Cheerleading Rivals

By Tony Ho Tran