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A new roleplaying game uses a powerful AI algorithm to generate a text-based adventure in real time. And unlike past versions, the story makes sense.

Artificial Intelligence

This Roleplaying AI Makes a Great Dungeon Master

By Dan Robitzski

A new law in China will make it illegal to create or share deepfakes without properly disclosing that they're not real videos.

Artificial Intelligence

China Makes Deepfakes Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

During the segment Grimes, who studied neuroscience before pursuing her music career, opined that humanity is at the "end of art, human art."

Artificial Intelligence

Grimes: Humanity Is At The “End of Art, Human Art”

By Tag Hartman-Simkins

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

Lee Se-dol, the Go champion who lost to DeepMind's AI Go player, announced that he's quitting professional Go because the algorithms are too good.

Artificial Intelligence

Human Go Champion Who Lost to AI Says Machines Cannot Be Defeated

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system called SchNOrb can probe the quantum mechanics of compounds to help scientists design new molecules from scratch.

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AI Is Learning Quantum Mechanics to Design New Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist and author Arthur Miller shares his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence, art, and what it means for machines to be creative.

Artificial Intelligence

Someday, Robot Artists May Have to Explain Their Creations to Us

By Dan Robitzski

A truly bizarre evangelical app tries to keep people from watching porn by using AI to filter it out and sending alerts to their friends if they slip up.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrible Christian App Narcs to Your Mom If You Watch Porn

By Dan Robitzski

In order to make robots more effective at their jobs, scientists suggest programming them with an inate fear of their own deaths.

To Make Robots Perform Better, Make Them Constantly Fear Death

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

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

Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that "No. I don't do sexual activities."

Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn’t Have Sex

By Dan Robitzski

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

The 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner" takes place in November 2019. Needless to say, our tech fell a teensy bit short of what the movie predicted.

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“Blade Runner” Was Set This Month. Where Are Our Flying Cars?

By Dan Robitzski

Belgium-based machine learning researcher and educator Xander Steenbrugge has developed a neural network AI that can turn music into trippy animations.

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Watch an AI Turn Music Into a Brain-Melting Visualization

By Victor Tangermann

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

By the year 2069, digital personhood — the granting of rights to machines — could be the norm, a tech expert told Pew Research Center.

Expert: Software Could Have “Personhood” by 2069

By Kristin Houser

This Electric Toothbrush Uses AI Because Nothing is Sacred Anymore

By Victor Tangermann

A browser game called "Aim and Shoot" pits the player against human-hunting neural networks that learn to become increasingly deadly.

Artificial Intelligence

In This Browser Game, Your Opponents Are Neural Networks

By Dan Robitzski

A small survey shows that most Chinese workers would prefer to be managed by an impartial AI algorithm than a human, in a positive twist on job automation.

88 Percent of Chinese Workers Would Prefer a Robot Boss

By Dan Robitzski

The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

A new video uses deepfake tech to turn recorded footage of New York City into a bizarre, stylistic Picasso-like landscape.

Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Deepfake Turn Footage of New York Into a Cubist Painting

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can read through news stories and generate comments that resemble those written by actual human readers.

Artificial Intelligence

Evil Research Generates Fake Comments on News Stories

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

Elon Musk tweeted early Thursday morning that "advanced AI" will be used to "manipulate social media" — if, he opined, it hasn't done so already.

Elon Musk: “Advanced AI” Will Manipulate Social Media

By Victor Tangermann

The Android app TwinFACE promises to give you "the opportunity to create an anime picture based on a real selfie." But it does a terrible job.

Artificial Intelligence

Finally, an App That Turns Your Selfie into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

New apps use AI to scrutinize your texts and determine whether someone is really into you or if you might not be the best match.

Artificial Intelligence

Can an AI Scan Your Messages to Detect if Someone’s Flirting?

By Dan Robitzski

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

After a horrifying case where an unauthorized Uber driver raped his passenger, the company says its inroducing human oversight to its driver-verifying tech.

A Driver Tricked Uber’s Algorithm, Sexually Assaulted a Passenger

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed in his new book that Taylor Swift threatened to sue the company over "Tay" the Twitter chatbot-turned-Nazi.

Artificial Intelligence

Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened Microsoft Over Racist Chatbot

By Dan Robitzski

A new Twitter account is collecting (legal, consensual) dick pics to test out a filter that can automatically delete unsolicited nudes.

Artificial Intelligence

This Researcher Is Gathering Dick Pics to Test Penis-Detecting AI

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski

New artificial intelligence and virtual reality tools are making it easier for doctors and their patients to fit new prosthetic limbs.

Virtual Reality

Doctors Are Using AI and VR to Improve People’s Prosthetic Limbs

By Dan Robitzski

A sociological research survey of AI chatbots' capabilities found that they could empathize with each other and tell jokes among themselves.

Artificial Intelligence

Surprise Research: AIs Can “Sympathize With Each Other”

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

The Pentagon's AI intelligence chief sees deepfake technology as a serious threat to democracy. He called on the government to develop better safeguards.

Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon’s AI Director Calls for Stronger Deepfake Protections

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk believes that we will have a hard time communicating with futuristic AI because it will process information far more rapidly than we do.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: We Communicate Too Slowly for Future AI to Understand

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook scientists built a minecraft-playing AI assistant that they hope will learn to understand natural language as it performs tasks.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Research is Using Minecraft to Train AI. Here’s Why.

By Dan Robitzski

A new algorithm analyzes pixelated images and turns them into photorealistic portraits. Point it toward a bunch of emojis and the results are terrifying.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Turned These Emojis Into Photorealistic Monstrosities

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 pharmacy call center has deployed AI that coaches human employees how to have more empathy with frustrated customers on the phone.

Artificial Intelligence

In a Strange Twist, This AI Tries to Teach Empathy to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Young children growing up around robots may need reminders that their metallic pals aren't really alive, lest they form unhealthy emotional ties.

Kids Are Becoming Emotionally Attached to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

By Dan Robitzski

Self-driving car companies are benefitting from cheap Venezuelan labor as they compile mountains of annotated training data for their AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela

By Dan Robitzski

AI development firm OpenAI just released a stronger version of its fake news-writing AI system, GPT-2. Even more powerful models could be on the way soon.

OpenAI Just Released a New Version of Its Fake News-Writing AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new system makes it easier than ever for people to generate believable deepfakes. The AI tool doesn't require training and can swap faces in real-time.

Artificial Intelligence

New System Makes It Troublingly Easy to Create Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

Now there's an AI assistant to help DJs pick songs for their sets in real time. It's unclear what, exactly, is left for the DJ to do.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Were Worried DJs Were Working Too Hard, This Idiotic AI Literally Picks Songs for Them

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has said that he hopes Neuralink will help people keep pace with future AI. But psychologist Susan Scheider warns that would be ill-advised.

Scientist: Merging Your Brain With AI Would Basically Be Suicide

By Dan Robitzski

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

By Dan Robitzski

Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Automatically Turns You Into an Anime Character

By Victor Tangermann

We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

Self-Driving Vehicles

We Took a Ride on NYC’s First Self-Driving Shuttle

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

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."

Artificial Intelligence

The Military Secretly Built An “Artificial Brain” Called Sentient

By Dan Robitzski

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

Neural nets tasked with interpreting then recreating a "Star Wars" duel churned out a nightmarish scene where Luke Skywalker holds a baseball bat and surfs.

Artificial Intelligence

According to a Neural Network, Luke Skywalker Is a Surfing Baseball Player

By Dan Robitzski

IBM just announced that it was making three of its artificial intelligence projects designed to help doctors and cancer researchers open-source.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Just Made its Cancer-Fighting AI Projects Open-Source

By Dan Robitzski

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait

Artificial Intelligence

This Website Will Turn Your Face Into a Renaissance Portrait

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft just invested $1 billion into OpenAI, which will now try to develop artificial general intelligence for Microsoft's cloud services.

Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Elon Musk-Founded OpenAI

By Dan Robitzski

A new subset of 7,500 unmodified photographs of natural objects is still able to completely throw AIs for a loop.

Artificial Intelligence

Why AIs Have No Idea What’s In These Mundane Pictures

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI system tracks people's tiny, involuntary eye movements to identify them, sort of like an ocular fingerprint scanner.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Identifies People by Their Minuscule Eye Movements

By Dan Robitzski

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5 Ways Singularity University is Exploring Artificial Intelligence at Global Summit This August

By Singularity University