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The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

The academic publisher Springer Nature just released a book summarizing lithium-ion battery research that was written by an AI algorithm.
Machine Learning

A Prominent Publisher Used Machine Learning to Write a Textbook

By Dan Robitzski

A new quantum computer can hold a superposition of 16 separate possible futures, a feat that scientists think could lead to faster-learning AI
Devices

New Quantum Device Can “Generate All Possible Futures”

By Dan Robitzski

Experts tell CNN they envision a future in which scammers use voice-mimicking technology to make robocalls sound like someone a target knows personally.
Artificial Intelligence

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom

By Kristin Houser

The YouTube account using Google's AI research to make synthesize videos of Trump singing is back, this time with "Sweet Dreams."
Google

Watch Google’s AI Make Trump Sing Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”

By Dan Robitzski

Google's Deepmind just pitted its math-solving AI system against a 16-year-old's math exam. The exam won, and it wasn't that close.
Google

Google’s Best AI Just Flunked a High School Math Test

By Dan Robitzski

IBM engineers just figured out how to build AI that can learn from its memories, transferring skills among related tasks instead of starting from scratch.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM’s New AI Does Something Amazing: It Learns From “Memories”

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a Google-developed neural network, we now live in the same universe as an audio deepfake of Trump singing Eminem.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Neural Network Make Trump Sing Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”

By Dan Robitzski

As Google's new advisory council for artificial intelligence development prepares to convene for the first time, one member has a dire warning.
Ethics

Google Ethics Adviser: Controlling Future AI is “Wishful Thinking”

By Dan Robitzski

The Animal-AI Olympics will see AI agents completing in tasks mimicking ones often used to test the intelligence of animals.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s New Challenge: To Be as Smart as an Animal

By Kristin Houser

Watch a Self-Driving Car Careen Around Corners Like a Racecar
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch a Self-Driving Car Careen Around Corners Like a Racecar

By Victor Tangermann

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

The U.S. Army just went with Palantir over Raytheon after a year-long contest to determine which would design new battlefield AI.
Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Palantir to Build Battlefield AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Estonian Ministry of Justice is officially designing a  "robot judge" that could take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes.
Future Society

Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

By Victor Tangermann

New video footage shows that a dangerous problem with the Tesla Autopilot system that makes cars veer towards highway dividers is still happening.
Tesla

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force recently announced plans to build "Skyborg," an AI program that will be able to fly fighter planes and drones and lessen the burden on people.
Artificial Intelligence

The Air Force Is Building AI to Fly Fighter Jets Called “Skyborg”

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is working to develop a ground force of killer robots. For now, the tank-like bots need help from humans, but that may change as AI improves.
Robotics

Russia Is Planning A “Ground Force” of Armed Military Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by Spain's IE University found that a quarter of Europeans would rather be governed by artificial intelligence than a human politician.
Artificial Intelligence

A Quarter of Europeans Trust AI More Than Politicians

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer and author Kevin Morris argues that an "economic singularity" may be coming, where robots and AI can automate all the jobs there are.
Future Society

New Futurist Fear: “Economic Singularity” Could Kill Jobs Forever

By Dan Robitzski

Google has a history of absorbing DeepMind's AI technology into its own projects. To protect the goldmine of AGI, DeepMind has safeguards in place.
Google

There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI

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

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.
Artificial Intelligence

This Guy is Hacking Printers to Warn About Job-Stealing AI

By Dan Robitzski

IBM figured out how to use a quantum computer to make machine learning algorithms better than ever before. But no quantum computer is good enough yet.
Machine Learning

Why IBM Thinks Quantum Computers Will Boost Machine Learning

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, we can tip robots over and insult smart homes without fear of a robotic revolution. But ethicist Nicholas Agar warns that may someday change.
Artificial Intelligence

Ethicist Warns: Future AI Could Take Revenge for How We Treat It Now

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-powered robot head named Tengai could make the applicant screening process less biased while still providing a "human" touch.
Artificial Intelligence

See the Robot Head That Might Interview You for Your Next Job

By Kristin Houser

IBM recently published a dataset for facial recognition AI made up of images that it scraped off of Flickr without asking for permission.
Artificial Intelligence

The Face Images Used to Train AI Are Taken Without Consent

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's AI research group, OpenAI, just became a for-profit company that will generate revenue for its ongoing non-profit work.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Nonprofit Elon Musk Founded and Quit Is Now For-Profit

By Dan Robitzski

In a paper two professors argue that algorithms are already constructing and shaping our reality, whether we're aware of it or not.
Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Warns: Algorithms Are “Using and Even Controlling Us”

By Victor Tangermann

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

Emotion detection systems are increasing in prevalence, but the AI supporting several systems has exhibited a troubling racial bias.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech That Can “Detect Emotion” Could Keep You From Getting a Job

By Kristin Houser

The AI models that allow self-driving cars to detect objects are less accurate when tested on images of pedestrians with darker skin tones.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often

By Kristin Houser

YouTube is disabling all commenting on videos of kids in an effort to stop the "soft-core pedophilia ring" exploiting its website.
Future Society

To Fight Pedophiles, YouTube Disables Comments on Videos Featuring Kids

By Kristin Houser

CEO Sam Altman: AI might well replace most jobs as we know them today, but the market will be flooded with new "sort of human to human jobs."
Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator CEO: AI Will Replace Jobs, But Life Will be Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

A self-assembling network of silver nanowires responds to electrical signals in a similar way to how the brain stores memories.
Artificial Intelligence

Chemists Grew A “Synthetic Brain” That Stores Memories in Silver

By Dan Robitzski

A fast food AI platform is taking orders at a drive-thru in Colorado, and it could be the latest sign that restaurants are prepared to lean on automation.
Artificial Intelligence

This Fast Food Drive-Thru Is Now Using AI to Take Orders

By Kristin Houser

China's state-run media outlet Xinhua adds a female AI news anchor to its news team, and she'll make her professional debut in March.
Artificial Intelligence

China Unveils the World’s First Female AI News Anchor

By Kristin Houser

Sean Dorrance Kelly, philosophy professor at Harvard, argues that artificial intelligence can never achieve true human creativity.
Artificial Intelligence

Philosopher: AI Can Never Create True Art

By Victor Tangermann

A New AI Draws Cats, and They’re Utterly Grotesque
Artificial Intelligence

A New AI Draws Cats, and They’re Utterly Grotesque

By Victor Tangermann

A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist whips up plausible-yet-slightly-incoherent apartment listings using machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings

By Jon Christian

This weekend, Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm that he'd left the research group OpenAI — citing disagreements with the group's direction.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Quits Research Group That Built “Fake News” Generator

By Jon Christian

Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots
Robotics

Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots

By Victor Tangermann

A former chief technology officer for the Israeli government warned that artificial intelligence could lead to a tragedy "worse than 9/11."
Artificial Intelligence

Former Israeli Tech Chief: AI Could Cause Tragedy “Worse Than 9/11”

By Jon Christian

OpenAI built an AI algorithm that can write full, mostly-coherent passages of text. It's so sophisticated that OpenAI decided it was too dangerous to share.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New AI Churns Out “Coherent Paragraphs of Text”

By Dan Robitzski

Pope Francis and Microsoft's Brad Smith met recently to discuss how AI could be developed in an ethical way and announced a new ethical AI contest.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s President Met With the Pope to Talk About Ethical AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI looks at online profiles for signs they might be dating scams in the hopes of saving singles from embarrassment and financial hardship.
Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Detects Fake Online Dating Profiles

By Kristin Houser

Thousands of U.S. school districts have enlisted the help of AI services to monitor students' communications for sign of future school shootings.
Artificial Intelligence

A Company Claims Its AI Has Prevented 16 School Shootings

By Kristin Houser

Competing AI systems tasked with setting a product's price eventually stop competing with low prices and instead gouge their customers.
Artificial Intelligence

Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too
Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too

By Catherine Mullen

In order to draw attention to IBM's new generative adversarial network, a website generates slightly-unsettling faces that were created by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious Site Uses AI to Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that composes arguments, recently lost a debate to a world-renowned human debating expert.
Artificial Intelligence

A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump will reportedly sign the American AI Initiative, an executive order designed to shape the future of AI in the nation.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Orders Federal Agencies to “Prioritize AI”

By Kristin Houser

An AI system can scan photos of child trafficking victims in hotel rooms and determine where they were taken based on the furniture in the room.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using AI to Find Hotel Rooms Being Used for Child Sex Trafficking

By Dan Robitzski

According to a prominent think tank's new report, the Chinese military is adopting artificial intelligence tech as quickly as it can.
Military

China Thinks AI Could Make Its Military As Powerful as America’s

By Dan Robitzski

A school in Japan is using an artificial intelligence to stop school bullying before it escalates to the point of seriousness.
Artificial Intelligence

A Japanese City Is Using AI to Prevent Youth Suicides

By Kristin Houser

In a recent blog post, an Amazon VP called for stronger regulations for facial recognition technology, including Amazon's own Rekognition.
Facial recognition

Amazon Calls for Regulation of Its Own Facial Recognition Tech

By Dan Robitzski

An AI-powered "smart stethoscope" listens to the sounds in a person's lungs and diagnoses pneumonia with a high degree of accuracy.
Health & Medicine

“Smart Stethoscope” Can Diagnose Pneumonia on Its Own

By Kristin Houser

In a recent filing with the SEC, Microsoft warns investors that faulty or biased AI could potentially harm the company's reputation.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Worried Its AI Will Go Rogue and Hurt Its Reputation

By Kristin Houser

To teach artificial intelligence to understand context and common sense, researchers are training it to play an online version of Pictionary.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using Pictionary to Teach “Common Sense” to AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government built an AI that finds signs of local corruption — but local officials in many areas are shutting it down.
Artificial Intelligence

China Built an AI to Detect Corruption and Officials Shut it Down

By Jon Christian

The 2019 Super Bowl ads featured a slew of robots and artificial intelligences. Here's a roundup of the tech-centric commercials.
Robotics

Here’s a Roundup of All the Super Bowl Ads About Robots and AI

By Kristin Houser

Researchers say they've built a robot arm that can construct a self-image — which they frame as a step toward machines that are truly self-aware.
Artificial Intelligence

New Robot Is “On The Path to Machine Self-Awareness,” Says Creator

By Jon Christian

Yoshua Bengio opened up in a new interview about his anxiety about how China is using deep learning to surveil and manipulate large populations.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of Deep Learning: China’s AI Tech Is “1984 Big Brother”

By Jon Christian