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Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.

Artificial Intelligence

Algorithm Detects Deepfakes by Analyzing Reflections in Eyes

By Tony Ho Tran

The genealogy platform MyHeritage has introduced a new tool called Deep Nostalgia that allows you to animate old photos of dead relatives.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Tool “Deep Nostalgia” Lets You Reanimate Your Dead Relatives

By Tony Ho Tran

If you look up the "genetics" section on Google News, you'll find lots of articles about people named Gene instead of biomedical research.

Google News’ “Genetics” Section Is Full of Articles About People Named Gene

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft recently patented an AI chatbot capable of imitating dead relatives or living celebrities. Thankfully, there's no plan to actually develop it.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patented AI to Imitate Your Dead Family

By Dan Robitzski

In a test, the Department of Homeland Security found that new facial recognition can identify 96 percent of people despite their face masks.

Facial recognition

Government Facial Recognition Can Identify 96 Percent of Masked People

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.

RX and Medicine

TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just let an AI-powered algorithm take over the navigation and sensor systems of a spy plane during a training flight on Tuesday.

The Air Force Just Let an AI Take Over Systems of a Military Jet

By Victor Tangermann

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-powered camera decided to follow the bald head of a linesman at a Scottish soccer game instead of the ball.

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Camera Mistakes Soccer Ref’s Bald Head For Ball

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at MIT have created an AI that is capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Invents AI to Decipher Ancient Languages

By Victor Tangermann

The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.

Artificial Intelligence

Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

A machine learning algorithm created by a team of scientists at Warwick University just confirmed the existence of 50 new planets in a world first.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Just Confirmed the Existence of 50 Planets By Digging Through NASA Data

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a new deep learning algorithm that can detect heart disease just by analyzing four photographs of a person's face.

Algorithm Detects Heart Disease by Analyzing Selfies

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight, winning five rounds to zero as part of a DARPA contest.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Fighter Jet Obliterates Human Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight

By Victor Tangermann

The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a gun and knife crime prediction tool that uses artificial intelligence. Turns out it sucks.

Artificial Intelligence

Minority Report-Style Crime-Predicting AI Predictably Sucks At Its Job

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

By Victor Tangermann

Someone found a new way to use deepfakes to spread disinformation online: using the tech to make up a fake journalist from scratch.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used Deepfake Tech to Invent a Fake Journalist

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system named SPOCK (yes, we know) can predict the orbit of distant exoplanets to figure out if they're going to collide.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Predicts Which Planets Are Going to Smash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."

Artificial Intelligence

To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim their AI can make accurate personality judgments based on selfies alone — and even better than some humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers: This AI Can Judge Personality Based on Selfies Alone

By Victor Tangermann

With more social gatherings happening over video conferences, we're seeing gnarly snack time close-ups. Thankfully, Microsoft AI can edit out eating sounds.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft AI Can Now Edit Your Snacking Sounds out of Your Video Chats

By Dan Robitzski

A New York City woman documented her experience trying to get tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus after showing all the symptoms. Here's what happened.

Will AI Save Us from Coronavirus?

By Foster Kamer

The chess grandmaster took 23 years to deal with having his keester handed to him by an IBM computer in the game he made his name on.

Artificial Intelligence

Chess Grandmaster Kasparov: I’ve Made “Peace” With Robot That Beat My Ass

By Foster Kamer

Bosch has come up with a clever car windshield cover featuring an AI LCD panel to cast a shadow on the driver's eyes, blocking out only a small portion.

Artificial Intelligence

This Clever Car Add-On Uses AI to Block Out Just The Sun

By Victor Tangermann

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers taught an artificially intelligent robot to cook and serve hot dogs by training it in a virtual setting and then an actual grill.

Finally, a Smart Robot That Can Cook and Serve Us Hot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

CIMON-2, the new version of the International Space Station's (ISS) bizarre, spherical robot assistant, should be better at picking up on emotional cues.

The International Space Station’s Robot Got an Emotional Upgrade

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to easily fool facial recognition systems at a variety of places, including banks, border crossings, and airports using a mask.

Facial recognition

Hackers Dupe Facial Recognition Systems With Creepy Mask

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers used a type of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict ADHD in patients by having it analyze magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

Neuroscience and Brain

This AI Can Detect ADHD Better than Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Just in time for the holiday season, AI researcher Janelle Shane taught an AI around 2,000 existing names of pies and some juicy Harry Potter fan fiction.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Came Up With Hilarious Pie Names Based on Harry Potter

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at a U.S. healthcare provider trained an AI to predict when you'll die by which patients were at a higher risk of dying within the next year.

This AI Knows When You’ll Die and Its Creators Don’t Know How

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Cambridge believe a nueral network could solve the three-body problem much faster than existing computer software.

Science & Energy

This Neural Network Quickly Solves a Major Astronomical Problem

By Victor Tangermann

This Electric Toothbrush Uses AI Because Nothing is Sacred Anymore

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI build an AI-powered robot hand that can solve a Rubik's cube more often than not, even when they started messing around with it.

Watch a Robot Hand Solve a Rubik’s Cube

By Dan Robitzski

Have you ever wanted to buy a body pillow of your very own AI-generated waifu? No? Well, now you can anyway, thanks to a very cursed website.

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Site Uses AI to Generate “Waifus”

By Dan Robitzski

At a conference at the Vatican last week, Pope Francis warned that in the wrong hands, AI could have some devastating consequences on humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Says AI Could Lead Humanity to “Barbarism”

By Victor Tangermann

Using a deepfake imitating the voice of its parent company's CEO, a scammer convinced an energy executive to transfer $243,000 to a third-party account.

Artificial Intelligence

A Scammer Reportedly Used a Deepfake to Steal $243,000

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of researchers associated with the U.S. Air Force want to give the codes to launch nuclear bombs to an artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force-Affiliated Researchers Want to Let AI Launch Nukes

By Victor Tangermann

People seem to love knocking over and attacking robots, especially those security robots, which is a totally cool and good thing to do, writes Wired.

Robots and Machines

Wired: It’s Time for War Between Humanity and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

Seven book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible.

Artificial Intelligence

Several Large Book Publishers Are Suing Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

A new deepfake on YouTube brought some signature cartoony design elements back to Disney's new live-action "The Lion King" remake.

Artificial Intelligence

This Genius Used Deepfakes to “Fix” the New “The Lion King”

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI algorithms can't be granted patents. The restriction originally served as a worker protection, but now it's creating a problem for engineers.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Trying to List AI as the Inventor on a New Patent

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at DeepMind have found that their machine learning AI could alert medical health professionals of future kidney injury 48 hours early.

Artificial Intelligence

This “AI Doctor” Can Predict Acute Kidney Conditions 2 Days Early

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Harvard and MIT's IBM Watson Lab have created an AI system that can detect if text or fake news was generated by another AI.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Help Humans Spot AI-Generated Fake News

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players

By Victor Tangermann

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Deepfakes have become more powerful and accessible, but presidential candidates haven't taken steps to counter computer-generated misinformation.

Artificial Intelligence

Report: 2020 Candidates Are Going to Get Owned by Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese food manufacturers have deployed taste-testing robots and artificial intelligence to make sure that the food is high-quality and authentic.

Taste-Testing Robots Are Optimizing Food in China

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface device can translate the neural signals controlling someone's vocal tract into full sentences of audible speech.

Health & Medicine

Amazing Device Turns Thoughts Into Audible Sentences

By Dan Robitzski

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with MIT researchers Lex Fridman, Tesla CEO and visionary Elon Musk reiterated his belief that we're all living inside a simulation.

Elon Musk’s Question for Super-Smart AI: What’s Outside the Simulation?

By Victor Tangermann

Following a week of protests over the company's controversial nominations, Google decided to cancel its new ethics board.

Google Started an Ethics Board and Then Killed It After Protests

By Dan Robitzski

For the past eight years, IBM's Watson AI division has boasted about plans to revolutionize healthcare. Now, doctors are getting tired of waiting.

Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Are Losing Faith in IBM Watson’s AI Doctor

By Dan Robitzski

Ebook distributor Overdrive is leveraging its vast collection of library rental data to improve the book reading experience with interactive elements.

This Ebook Company Is Trying to Make Reading More Like Videogames

By Dan Robitzski

A small robotic idol can listen to people's troubles and recite relevant passages from religious texts. Its creator says it could keep the elderly company.

This Robot Reads the Bible to Old People in Nursing Homes

By Dan Robitzski

A Finnish startup called Vainu relies on prison labor to train its AI algorithms, arguing that labeling training data is giving inmates valuable skills.

Artificial Intelligence

A Finnish Startup Is Using Prison Labor to Train AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can make creating deepfakes as easy as doodling a quick sketch on top of existing photos of celebrities.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing Neural Network Turns Doodles Into Realistic Photos

By Dan Robitzski

Evolutionary robotics could give rise to machines that program their offspring, so to speak, using their own code and programming.

Scientists Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Reproduce, Evolve

By Dan Robitzski

Google has once again revitalized its robotics program, focusing on simple machines powered by powerful AI instead of humanoid robots.

Google’s Revived Robotics Department Prioritizes Powerful AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Defense has deemed that all 5,000 pages of documents on Google's work to build AI for military drones is too sensitive to release.

The Pentagon is Hiding Info About Google’s Work on Military Drones

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new experiment, people find losing to robots and AI particularly demoralizing, which could have implications for our automated workplaces.

Artificial Intelligence

New Research: People Who Get Defeated By AI Feel Horrible

By Dan Robitzski

To help people determine whether or not a news article was made up by a bot, scientists built a tool that looks for signs of humanity within text.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Detects Whether Text Was Written by a Bot

By Dan Robitzski