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Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software

In brief Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images

AI + ML11 Sep 2022 | 38

People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?

AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 44

Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids

In brief Plus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more

AI + ML12 Jun 2022 | 47

Costa Rican government held up by ransomware … again

In brief Also US warns of voting machine flaws and Google pays out $100 million to Illinois

Security06 Jun 2022 | 9

Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977

In brief Also: Uni details its malware-catching AI, signs of China poking the Russian cyber-bear, and more

Patches29 May 2022 | 9

Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online

In brief Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops

AI + ML22 May 2022 | 25

US cops kick back against facial recognition bans

In brief Plus: DeepMind launches new generalist AI system, and Apple boffin quits over return-to-work policy

AI + ML16 May 2022 | 9

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW

In brief Plus: SoundCloud acquires startup for better algorithmic curated playlists

AI + ML08 May 2022 | 50

AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls

In brief Plus: Driverless Cruise car gets pulled over by police, and more

AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 34

EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database

In brief Plus: Can algorithms tell us how we're feeling from the sound of our voices and more

AI + ML11 Apr 2022 | 26

Ukraine uses Clearview AI to identify slain Russian soldiers

In brief Plus: GPT-NeoX-20B, the largest open-source language model available yet, and a new AI Silicon Valley VC fund

AI + ML28 Mar 2022 | 12

Tesla employee: I was fired after sharing video of self-driving car crash

In brief Plus: FTC orders model destruction

AI + ML21 Mar 2022 | 13

Clearview AI plans tech to ID faces as they age, seek big government deals

In brief Plus: AI imparts brain surgery skills more effectively than human tutors

AI + ML28 Feb 2022 | 2

Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication

In brief Plus: Non-profit suicide hotline criticised for sharing mental health crisis texts with AI startup, and more

AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 25

IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health

In brief As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game

AI + ML24 Jan 2022 | 10

Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

In brief Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more

AI + ML15 Jan 2022 | 104

Free AI protein software packages nearly predicted structure of the Omicron coronavirus variant correctly

In brief Plus: IBM Watson Health reportedly up for sale over $1bn, and more

AI + ML11 Jan 2022 | 16

Clearview's selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented

Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more

AI + ML11 Dec 2021 | 22

Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

In brief Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat lung disease reaches human clinical trials and more

AI + ML04 Dec 2021 | 54

AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home

In brief Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI

AI + ML20 Nov 2021 | 24

Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO

In brief Plus: Waymo's self-driving cars are mapping the mean streets of NYC

AI + ML08 Nov 2021 | 1

Twitter's algos favour tweets from conservatives over liberals because they generate more outrage online – study

In brief Plus: Microsoft acquires an AI content moderation startup to prevent hate speech on the Xbox and more

AI + ML30 Oct 2021 | 52

Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech

In brief Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages

AI + ML16 Oct 2021 | 26

Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services

In brief Plus: Experts dubious of Apple's AI algorithm being able to detect depression and anxiety

AI + ML03 Oct 2021 | 21

Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

In brief Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes

AI + ML27 Sep 2021 | 39

Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates

In Brief Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight

AI + ML06 Sep 2021 | 40

A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

In brief Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more

AI + ML22 Aug 2021 | 126

OpenAI's GPT-3-based pair programming model – Codex – now open for private beta testers through an API

In Brief Plus: Self-driving Humvees funded by US Army to the tune of millions

AI + ML16 Aug 2021 | 4

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

In brief Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools

AI + ML08 Aug 2021 | 46

Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative

In brief Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial

AI + ML02 Aug 2021 | 8

20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download

In brief Plus: Facial-recognition upstart Clearview raises $30m

AI + ML26 Jul 2021 | 4

OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet

In brief Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked

AI + ML18 Jul 2021 | 10

Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform

In brief Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership

AI + ML14 Jun 2021 | 2

Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software

In brief Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists

AI + ML24 May 2021 | 4

This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla

In Brief Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google

AI + ML16 May 2021 | 28

US postal service goes all in on AI

In Brief Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple

AI + ML10 May 2021 | 6

Google's AI ethics firings garner more trouble – $60,000 Chocolate Factory boffin grant turned down over issue

In Brief Plus: Amazon delivery drivers forced to consent to being surveilled by AI

AI + ML29 Mar 2021 | 6

Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

In brief Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more

AI + ML08 Mar 2021 | 40

Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions

In Brief Plus: Deepfake Tom Cruise has arrived on TikTok, and new ML algo that beats humans at classic Atari games

AI + ML01 Mar 2021 | 15

I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted

In brief Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more

AI + ML22 Feb 2021 | 30

Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images

Plus: Check if your Flickr photos are in facial recognition engines and and the list of NSFW words for AI

AI + ML08 Feb 2021 | 32

Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague

In Brief Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars

AI + ML25 Jan 2021 | 51

US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends

In brief Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature

AI + ML18 Jan 2021 | 30

Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill

In brief Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup

AI + ML11 Jan 2021 | 61

Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt

In brief Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher

AI + ML12 Dec 2020 | 14

Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives

In brief Plus: US President signs a new executive order on AI and how JAX is becoming more popular at DeepMind

AI + ML07 Dec 2020 | 38

Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers

Plus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters

AI + ML23 Nov 2020 | 11

Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators

In brief Plus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia

AI + ML16 Nov 2020 | 35

City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000

In brief Plus: Waymo stops in SF and vegan milk designed by machine-learning

AI + ML07 Nov 2020 | 25

South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet

In brief Plus: Watch a self-driving race car drive into a wall, and download the new version of PyTorch

AI + ML02 Nov 2020 | 34

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

In brief Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more

AI + ML26 Oct 2020 | 50

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

In brief Plus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you

AI + ML13 Oct 2020 | 40

Unis turn to webcam-watching AI to invigilate students taking exams. Of course, it struggles with people of color

In brief Plus: IBM shares its ML know-how in schizophrenia fight

AI + ML05 Oct 2020 | 81

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

In brief Plus: CIA launches new research lab for AI experts, and more

AI + ML27 Sep 2020 | 35

US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?

In brief Software fighter pilots could bring a whole new meaning to 'crash and burn'

AI + ML14 Sep 2020 | 29

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Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software

Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes

Microsoft reviews M365 resilience after Indian outage

I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient

Cruise self-driving cars stopped and clogged up San Francisco for hours

Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak

People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO

Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids

Costa Rican government held up by ransomware … again

Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977

Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online

US cops kick back against facial recognition bans

OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW

AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls

EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database

Ukraine uses Clearview AI to identify slain Russian soldiers

Tesla employee: I was fired after sharing video of self-driving car crash

Clearview AI plans tech to ID faces as they age, seek big government deals

Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication

IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health

Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents

Free AI protein software packages nearly predicted structure of the Omicron coronavirus variant correctly

Clearview's selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented

Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home

Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO

Twitter's algos favour tweets from conservatives over liberals because they generate more outrage online – study

Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech

Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services

Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates

A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped

OpenAI's GPT-3-based pair programming model – Codex – now open for private beta testers through an API

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative

20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download

OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet

Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform

Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software

This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla

US postal service goes all in on AI

Google's AI ethics firings garner more trouble – $60,000 Chocolate Factory boffin grant turned down over issue

Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons

Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions

I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted

Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images

Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague

US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends

Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill

Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt

Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives

Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers

Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators

City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000

South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

Unis turn to webcam-watching AI to invigilate students taking exams. Of course, it struggles with people of color

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?

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