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Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”

Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”

By Victor Tangermann

The Japanese government plans to invest in local prefectures that develop new matchmaking AI to help singles in the area find love.

Artificial Intelligence

Japan’s Government Is Using AI to Set Up Lonely Singles on Dates

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind AI researchers broke the record for predicting how proteins will assemble. Scientists in the field remain unimpressed.

Scientists Unimpressed by Google’s Protein Folding Algorithm

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm called RoboGrammer can design robot bodies that are optimized for specific tasks or crossing specific terrain.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots

By Dan Robitzski

AI tech composed a Britney Spears song in the style of Frank Sinatra. It was struck down by copyright claims, launching an unprecedented legal case.

A Bot Made Frank Sinatra Cover Britney Spears. YouTube Removed It Over Copyright Claims.

By Dan Robitzski

In order to teach AI how to use words with specific intentions rather than babbling, scientists made an AI agent play a fantasy role-playing game.

Artificial Intelligence

To Teach an AI to Pursue Goals, Scientists Made It Play an RPG

By Dan Robitzski

AI legal expert Frank Pasquale says that Asimov's laws of robotics are outdated, and he has some ideas for new ones to supplement them.

Robots and Machines

Professor: Asimov’s Laws Are Outdated and It’s Time to Write More

By Dan Robitzski

In a world's first, a jet pilot flying inside a real aircraft just fought an artificial intelligence-powered virtual fighter jet in real time.

Virtual Reality

A Pilot Flying a Real Jet Just Fought an Augmented Reality Enemy

By Victor Tangermann

In a video missive, Pope Franics urged Catholics to pray that AI developers build tools that help humanity rather than exploit it.

Artificial Intelligence

The Pope Is Praying for AI That Serves Humanity

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

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 new website uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to turn a picture of anyone's face into a zombie, just in time for Halloween.

Artificial Intelligence

This Neural Network Turns You Into a Zombie

By Dan Robitzski

GPT-3, an artificial intelligence algorithm, is capable of writing shockingly-coherent text. But that mean it's useful, argues Facebook AI head Yann LeCun.

Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered how our brains process 3D images — then discovered that neural networks happen to do it the same way.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarity Between Neural Networks and Human Brain

By Dan Robitzski

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

San Francisco-based engineering company Edge Innovations has designed and built a robot dolphin that looks and acts just like the real thing.

Robots and Machines

Ultra-Realistic Remote Controlled Dolphin Looks Like the Real Thing

By Victor Tangermann

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.

Neuroscience and Brain

New System Reads Your Brain Waves, Draws a Picture of What You’re Thinking About

By Dan Robitzski

An AI algorithm learned how to dose anesthetized patients during surgery. In a simulated environment, it outperformed what doctors use today.

MIT Trains Neural Network to Keep Patients Anesthetized During Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

In a preprint paper, physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin from the University of Minnesota Duluth argues that the entire universe may be a neural network.

Artificial Intelligence

Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network

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

An engineer trained an artificial intelligence algorithm on the King James Bible and had it write bizarre doomsday scripture.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Trained on the Bible Spits Out Bleak Religious Prophecies

By Dan Robitzski

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

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.

Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Testing F-16s Flown by AI in Virtual Combat

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to new, skintight sensors, AI may finally be able to learn what's going on with our hands when we make everyday gestures.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Might Finally Decipher Human Gestures

By Dan Robitzski

A team of AI scientists want to launch a well-intentioned but ethically-complicated study that involves monitoring parolees to cut down on recidivism.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Developers Want to Perform a Bizarre Study on Released Prisoners

By Dan Robitzski

Project Maven, the notorious Air Force AI system that Google helped develop and makes drones more lethal, is about to be deployed next month.

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force’s Notorious Project Maven Goes Live Next Month

By Dan Robitzski

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears

By Dan Robitzski

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

Elon Musk is once again warning about the perils of unregulated AI, saying that people who think AI couldn't fool them are fooling themselves.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: If You Don’t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You’re an Idiot

By Dan Robitzski

Uber drivers in the U.K. are suing the company for access to access to its logs on their performance, as well as info on how it's used.

Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Are Suing to Learn How the Company’s Algorithm Works

By Dan Robitzski

MIT permanently deleted a massive dataset used for training AI after learning that it was full of racist and sexist slurs.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

By Dan Robitzski

A programmer named Aldo Cortesi created an algorithm that draws nonexistent animals, some of which look plausible and others which look like bizarre.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Generated a Bunch of Mutated-Looking New Animals

By Jon Christian

The in-development science-fiction movie "b" will be the first feature-length ilm to feature a robot as the lead performer.

Hollywood Just Cast a Robot Actress in a $70 Million Movie

By Dan Robitzski

The first documented case of police facial recognition AI making its first wrongful arrest happened when a man was wrongfully identified as a shoplifter.

Facial recognition

Cops Arrested an Innocent Man Because Facial Recognition Told Them To

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Can Generate Headshot Photos From Slapdash Doodles

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Duke University have developed an AI that can generate a detailed computer-generated portrait of a human face from a pixelized version.

Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Is a Lot Like the “Enhance!” Feature In “CSI”

By Victor Tangermann

A new iPhone update will urge anyone who tells Siri that "all lives matter" to read up on racial issues and visit BlackLivesMatter.com

Artificial Intelligence

Telling Siri “All Lives Matter” Brings up BlackLivesMatter.com

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force wants to test its artificial intellgience-driven drones in "some sort fo air-to-air" against human fighter pilots.

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.

Artificial Intelligence

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.

Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

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

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.

Artificial Intelligence

Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

By Dan Robitzski

A website called thisworddoesnotexist uses AI to generate fake but believable definitions for made-up words like "lachetous."

Artificial Intelligence

This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.

Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.

Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

A student getting his master's degree in business decided that he didn't want to write some essays. So he had AI do his homework it instead.

Artificial Intelligence

This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.

Artificial Intelligence

This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

By Dan Robitzski

An AI by a risk detection firm was able to predict where the next spike in coronavirus cases will be in the UK and US by analyzing social media posts.

Artificial Intelligence

Data Firm Says Its AI Predicts Where Next COVID-19 Spike Will Be

By Victor Tangermann

Australian startup Cortical Labs is building tiny artificial intelligence-powered computer chips that use biological neurons extracted from mice.

This Startup’s Computer Chips Are Powered by Human Neurons

By Victor Tangermann

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.

New App Attempts to Detect Signs of COVID-19 Using Voice Analysis

By Jon Christian

An impressive new deepfake inserts Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk into the 1965 pilot episode of storied sci-fi series "Star Trek."

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed Deepfake Shows Jeff Bezos As Veiny-Headed “Star Trek” Alien

By Jon Christian

An tech company published a website, purportedly meant to help journalists write better, that's using AI to publish believable fake news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities are using high-tech tools to track and limit the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak such as lasers that can spot people with fevers.

China Deploys Infrared Sensors to Detect Infected Citizens in Public

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is considering a fire control system for its next-gen rifle that would only let soldiers fire if they were guaranteed to hit their targets.

Artificial Intelligence

US Army Considering Rifle That Only Fires When Hit Is Guaranteed

By Dan Robitzski

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

A group is developing an AI to finished Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th symphony, which the composer was writing when he died in 1827.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Is Completing Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphony

By Kristin Houser

The AI research firm AI Now called for the ban of untested and biased technologies like facial recognition and emotion-detecting algorithms.

Facial recognition

Report: Facial Recognition Should Be Banned From Everyday Life

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