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Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

To train more handy robots, scientists built "adversarial objects" — small, die-like figures that are as difficult to grasp as possible.
Robotics

Engineers Build “Adversarial Objects” to Confuse Grabby Robots

By Dan Robitzski

AI tools like GROVER are very good at flooding the internet with fake news and spam. The solution may come in the form of smarter Google filters.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Poised to Ruin Internet Using “Massive Tsunami” of Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
Facial recognition

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

By Dan Robitzski

The biggest supplier of police body cameras and software called Axon just called it quits on using AI-powered facial recognition systems for its devices.
Facial recognition

Police Body Camera Maker Decides Against Using Facial Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

By Dan Robitzski

Google scientists trained a neural net to better navigate spaces with an archive of thousands of "Mannequin Challenge" videos.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Used a Viral Meme to Learn to Navigate

By Dan Robitzski

A new website illustrates how AI can now churn out believable blog posts, in this case focused on digital marketing strategies.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Generates Infinite Horrible Marketing Sites

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed an AI "vaccine" that can make algorithms more resistant to hackers who launch adversarial attacks to try and confuse the systems.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI “Vaccine” Can Block Adversarial Attacks

By Dan Robitzski

Surveillance cameras will only get more sophisticated and harder to avoid, so privacy expert William Webster calls for increased transparency.
Artificial Intelligence

Privacy Expert: Surveillance Cams Will Soon Be Impossible to Spot

By Dan Robitzski

A series of AI algorithms and neural nets turned Doom Guy's classic pixelated mug into an HD, nearly-photorealistic portrait.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res

By Dan Robitzski

The ACLU published a new report warning about the rise of AI-driven surveillance systems, which could strip away our privacy and cause overpolicing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Aided Video Surveillance Will Watch and Silently Judge Us

By Dan Robitzski

Adobe trained a neural net to detect faces that were manipulated using Photoshops' liquify tool, though the company hasn't released it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Built an AI to Spot Photoshopped Faces

By Dan Robitzski

The Associated Press found that a LinkedIn profile for a "Katie Jones" was a made up cover likely belonging to a spy, and the profile photo was a deepfake.
Artificial Intelligence

A Spy Used a Deepfake Photo to Infiltrate LinkedIn Networks

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

By Dan Robitzski

a new companion robot called Irony Man was programmed to be ironic and sarcastic to better match how humans talk, but it doesn't know when to stop.
Robotics

Scientists Built a Robot With a Sense of Irony. It’s Insufferable

By Dan Robitzski

A brand-new subreddit called "newsbyAI" is full of fake news articles written by artificial intelligence systems that imitate the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

New Subreddit Celebrates Bizarre Fake News Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Planner 5D is suing Facebook and Princeton University, claiming that they took, used, and shared its database of 3D models and simulations.
Artificial Intelligence

A Startup Is Suing Facebook, Princeton For Stealing Its AI Data

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon CEO and tech-billionaire Jeff Bezos just demonstrated a pair of massive robotic arms and hands at this year's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas.
Jeff Bezos

Behold: Jeff Bezos Just Showed off a Pair of Huge Mecha-Hands

By Victor Tangermann

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment
Environment

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

By Victor Tangermann

On Wednesday, The New York Times published a retroactive obituary for Alan Turing, the man credited as kickstarting artificial intelligence research.
Future Society

Alan Turing Finally Got His New York Times Obituary

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists built a new algorithm for self-piloting "roboats" that let them automatically latch together to form robot barges.
Robotics

Amsterdam Is Paying MIT to Develop Robot Barges For Its Canals

By Dan Robitzski

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI
Climate Change

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI

By Victor Tangermann

A company called GLITCH is selling dresses that were designed by an AI algorithm. It hopes to support more women in science and tech.
Artificial Intelligence

This Startup Is Selling “Little Black Dresses” Designed By AI

By Dan Robitzski

Jai Paul is back with an artificial intelligence he calls an "infinite playback," which produces new takes on his classic track "Jasmine" in perpetuity. 
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Generates New Remixes of Jai Paul… Forever

By Jon Christian

Chicago librarian Emma Boettcher, who wrote her masters thesis on deep learning and "Jeopardy!", just won the classic quiz game. And we found her thesis.
Artificial Intelligence

We Found “Jeopardy!” Kingslayer Emma Boettcher’s Thesis on Data Mining

By Foster Kamer

While playing rounds of capture the flag in Quake III Arena, DeepMind's artificial intelligence was able to outperform human teammates.
Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind’s Gamer AI is Better At Co-op Mode Than Human Players

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a neural net called GROVER that can create — and identify — fake news better than any human or algorithm out there.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Generates Horrifyingly Plausible Fake News

By Dan Robitzski

After using AI to analyze "junk" DNA, a Princeton-led team concluded that mutations within the noncoding DNA can cause autism.
DNA

Princeton Scientists: Mutations in “Junk” DNA Can Cause Autism

By Kristin Houser

Next-Gen Spacesuit Helmet Has an “Iron Man” Heads Up Display
Off-World

Next-Gen Spacesuit Helmet Has an “Iron Man” Heads Up Display

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing only a short audio clip of a person's voice, this artificial intelligence reconstructs what they might look like in real life.
Artificial Intelligence

Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice

By Jon Christian

We thought it would be fun to run some Elon Musk tweets through a neural network designed by OpenAI, the company he founded and quit.
Artificial Intelligence

We Asked an AI to Finish Real Elon Musk Tweets

By Jon Christian

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.
Google

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

By Victor Tangermann

An amazing new deepfake algorithm turns single frames into full-motion videos, reminiscent of photographs and paintings in the "Harry Potter" series.
Artificial Intelligence

Uncanny Algorithm Turns Still Portraits Into Full-Motion Videos

By Jon Christian

The app Juicebox developed an AI chatbot, named Slutbot, that flirts and sexts with people while helping them learn about consent and respect.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Where You Can Flirt With a Sexting AI Called Slutbot

By Dan Robitzski

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn has donated more than $1 million to various organizations attempting to prevent an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

Skype Co-Founder Desperate to Stop AI From Destroying Humanity

By Kristin Houser

A new AI tool called PetSwap uses a deepfake algorithm to morph photos of animals, or humans, into a variety of species, like Animorphs.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy

By Natalie Coleman

Facebook has lifted the curtain on its robotics research, sharing details on three projects in a newly published blog post.
Robotics

Facebook Finally Unveils Secret Robotics Projects

By Kristin Houser

The 1998 trip-hop album Mezzanine by Massive Attack got an artificial intelligence makeover at an art exhibit in London.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Remixed Massive Attack’s Classic Album “Mezzanine”

By Victor Tangermann

This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon

By Victor Tangermann

A dialed-back version of the "dangerous" text-generating AI system by OpenAI is available to test online. We had some fun, but it's pretty impressive.
OpenAI

Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s “Dangerous” Fake News AI

By Dan Robitzski

"Dalí Lives" uses deepfake AI technology to create an interactive art exhibit where Salvador Dalí interacts with museum guests.
Artificial Intelligence

A Salvador Dalí Deepfake Can Take Selfies With Museumgoers

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook is not only failing to detect Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups on its platform, it's algorithmically generating content for them.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Cheers on Charming Local Business Al-Qaeda’s “Great Year”

By Dan Robitzski

Conceptual sound artist and composer Holly Herndon released her new artificial intelligence-inspired album "PROTO" today.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s What an Album Between a Musician and an “AI Baby” Sounds Like

By Victor Tangermann

Google announced its creepy auto-calling assistant feature a year ago. Since then, many restaurants are choosing to hang up instead.
Google

Restaurants Are Ignoring Calls From Google’s Smart Assistant

By Victor Tangermann

As deepfakes and AI-generated "photos" become more common, we all need tools to discern fact from fiction. A new website came up with tips and a test.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial intelligence-powered pun generator created by Stanford Researchers attempts to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns

By Victor Tangermann

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses Google's AI to churn out poetic couplets. The results are sometimes nonsensical, but occasionally prescient.
Google

We Used Google’s New AI to Generate Angsty Poetry About the Future

By Dan Robitzski

Fast food giant McDonald's installed AI-powered menu boards in 700 of its restaurants after acquiring an Israeli AI startup.
Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Is Installing AI-Powered Kiosks to Predict Your Order

By Victor Tangermann

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

Right now, AI can't be considered conscious. But should it someday get to that point, some experts argue we should lay out algorithms' civil rights now.
Artificial Intelligence

These Professors Are Arguing That AI Should Get Animal Rights

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers propose a new field of AI study called "machine behaviour" — and it could ensure we reap the tech's benefits while avoiding the drawbacks.
Artificial Intelligence

To Prevent the Apocalypse, MIT Says to Study “Machine Behaviour”

By Kristin Houser

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wants to make sure that AI is built to serve, not conquer humanity, and wants to make sure important choices aren't automated.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon

By Dan Robitzski

No matter how cute or emotionally-savvy some robots may seem, experts warn that it's an illusion. Artificial intelligence simply isn't that sophisticated.
Robotics

Expert Warns Against Forming Emotional Attachments With Robots

By Dan Robitzski

UK-based design agency Layer teamed up with Chinese electric car maker Nio to create a smart scooter that can learn where you want to go.
Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Scooter Uses AI to Learn Your Favorite Routes

By Victor Tangermann

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI
Elon Musk

The AI Group Elon Musk Quit Just Released An Amazing Music AI

By Victor Tangermann

A couple from Massachusetts found a way to train a neural network to tell apart real oil paintings from Dutch painter Rembrandt from imitations. 
Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a voice analysis program that uses artificial intelligence to accurately and objectively diagnose PTSD.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Can Detect PTSD in Your Voice

By Natalie Coleman

A group of engineers figured out a way to fool AI surveillance systems with the help of a little colorful patch you can hang around your neck.
Artificial Intelligence

This Colorful Picture is Like an Invisibility Cloak for AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk hinted at the announcement by his startup Neuralink, possibly of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up to computers.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Brain-Computer Interface Update “Coming Soon”

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese ecommerce firm DeNA has equipped taxis with a facial recognition system that selects ads based on passenger gender and age.
Facial recognition

Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders

By Dan Robitzski

A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal — and livestreaming it.
Artificial Intelligence

Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network

By Jon Christian

By using machine learning technology, video game modders are reviving classic old games by giving their graphics a major update.
Machine Learning

Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

By Natalie Coleman