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Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents
Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more
15 Jan 2022 11:01 | 104
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Free AI protein software packages nearly predicted structure of the Omicron coronavirus variant correctly
Plus: IBM Watson Health reportedly up for sale over $1bn, and more
11 Jan 2022 12:33 | 16
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Clearview's selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented
Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more
11 Dec 2021 14:01 | 22
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Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI
Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat lung disease reaches human clinical trials and more
04 Dec 2021 15:48 | 54
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AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home
Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI
20 Nov 2021 11:01 | 24
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Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO
Plus: Waymo's self-driving cars are mapping the mean streets of NYC
08 Nov 2021 11:43 | 1
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Twitter's algos favour tweets from conservatives over liberals because they generate more outrage online – study
Plus: Microsoft acquires an AI content moderation startup to prevent hate speech on the Xbox and more
30 Oct 2021 11:05 | 52
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Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech
Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages
16 Oct 2021 11:01 | 26
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Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services
Plus: Experts dubious of Apple's AI algorithm being able to detect depression and anxiety
03 Oct 2021 23:33 | 21
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Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving
Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes
27 Sep 2021 19:06 | 39
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Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates
Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight
06 Sep 2021 12:02 | 40
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A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped
Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more
22 Aug 2021 03:30 | 126
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OpenAI's GPT-3-based pair programming model – Codex – now open for private beta testers through an API
Plus: Self-driving Humvees funded by US Army to the tune of millions
16 Aug 2021 15:02 | 4
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AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn
Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools
08 Aug 2021 11:01 | 46
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Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative
Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial
02 Aug 2021 03:35 | 8
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20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download
Plus: Facial-recognition upstart Clearview raises $30m
26 Jul 2021 12:10 | 4
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OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet
Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked
18 Jul 2021 01:14 | 10
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Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform
Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership
14 Jun 2021 15:33 | 2
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Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software
Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists
24 May 2021 06:27 | 4
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This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla
Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google
16 May 2021 03:17 | 28
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US postal service goes all in on AI
Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple
10 May 2021 18:15 | 6
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Google's AI ethics firings garner more trouble – $60,000 Chocolate Factory boffin grant turned down over issue
Plus: Amazon delivery drivers forced to consent to being surveilled by AI
29 Mar 2021 13:16 | 6
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Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons
Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more
08 Mar 2021 15:30 | 40
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Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions
Plus: Deepfake Tom Cruise has arrived on TikTok, and new ML algo that beats humans at classic Atari games
01 Mar 2021 13:27 | 15
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I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted
Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more
22 Feb 2021 12:21 | 30
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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
08 Feb 2021 11:01 | 32
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Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars
25 Jan 2021 06:54 | 51
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US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends
Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature
18 Jan 2021 10:32 | 30
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Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill
Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup
11 Jan 2021 11:03 | 61
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Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt
Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher
12 Dec 2020 11:02 | 14
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Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives
Plus: US President signs a new executive order on AI and how JAX is becoming more popular at DeepMind
07 Dec 2020 06:01 | 38
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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
23 Nov 2020 07:01 | 11
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Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators
Plus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia
16 Nov 2020 12:15 | 35
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City folk vote to each get $100 every time cops, govt officials illegally spy on them with facial-rec AI, minimum $1,000
Plus: Waymo stops in SF and vegan milk designed by machine-learning
07 Nov 2020 14:08 | 25
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South Park creators have a new political satire series with some of the best AI-generated deepfakes on the internet yet
Plus: Watch a self-driving race car drive into a wall, and download the new version of PyTorch
02 Nov 2020 11:45 | 34
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How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more
26 Oct 2020 11:44 | 50
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Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'
Plus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you
13 Oct 2020 13:15 | 40
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Unis turn to webcam-watching AI to invigilate students taking exams. Of course, it struggles with people of color
Plus: IBM shares its ML know-how in schizophrenia fight
05 Oct 2020 01:08 | 81
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Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use
Plus: CIA launches new research lab for AI experts, and more
27 Sep 2020 13:03 | 35
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US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?
Software fighter pilots could bring a whole new meaning to 'crash and burn'
14 Sep 2020 07:01 | 29
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Remember OpenAI's GPT model that was too dangerous for mere mortals? Well, it's now for sale on Azure
Plus: Man incorrectly identified as a suspect by a facial recognition software is suing, and more
06 Sep 2020 11:00 | 13
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AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies
Plus: Apple's new machine-learning residency program
31 Aug 2020 09:19 | 17
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Uncle Sam to blow millions on getting fusion power finally working – with the help of AI
Plus: Formula One teamed up with AWS to rank top 20 race car drivers since 1983
24 Aug 2020 06:03 | 55
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Want to hear our beloved David Attenborough narrate your life? Thanks to the power of machine learning, you can
Plus: AI app for the visually impaired – and Clearview lawyers up
17 Aug 2020 10:06 | 14
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Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops
Plus: Microsoft to dump support for Cortana on iOS, Android phones
08 Aug 2020 08:29 | 147
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US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years
Plus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous
02 Aug 2020 13:15 | 34
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Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?
Plus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans
27 Jul 2020 09:08 | 16
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Germany bans Tesla from claiming its Autopilot software is potentially autonomous
Also: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation
20 Jul 2020 14:27 | 22
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Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time
Plus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research
05 Jul 2020 14:52 | 59
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Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon'
Plus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more
27 Jun 2020 16:29 | 24
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Machine learning devs can now run GPU-accelerated code on Windows devices on AMD's chips, OpenAI applies GPT-2 to computer vision
Plus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more
22 Jun 2020 11:41 |
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Mine how you go: Kubeflow ML clusters hijacked to craft crypto-coins, Facebook code used to dig up actual minerals
Plus: Facial-recognition to check whether you glanced at an ad during a football game
14 Jun 2020 23:56 |
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NASA launches a challenge to fund AI systems for future spacecraft – hopefully without HAL-style errors
Also, you can read the first AI-generated manga comic in English
08 Jun 2020 05:02 | 18
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Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain
Plus: Zuck wants machines to spot bad memes on Facebook
18 May 2020 11:34 | 6
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Facebook's mega-chatbot has 'a persona, discusses nearly any topic, shows empathy.' Perfect for CEO version 2
Plus: OpenAI's music-making software isn't half bad ... and Banjo boss's KKK shame
04 May 2020 05:39 | 15
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Facebook, AWS team up to produce open-source PyTorch AI libraries, grad student says he successfully used GPT-2 to write his homework....
...Nvidia CEO to unveil new tech on YouTube, and more from machine-learning world
26 Apr 2020 09:05 | 12
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Who knows the secret of the black magic box? Boffins seek the secrets of AI learning by mapping digital neurons
And Zoox setlles with Elon's Musketeers over purloined IP
20 Apr 2020 06:32 | 4
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Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft
Plus more news from the world of machine learning
06 Apr 2020 11:24 | 9
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Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI
Your quick summary of neural network news
30 Mar 2020 10:09 | 13
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TensorFlow gets its quantum of solace, lid lifted on 'all-seeing crime-detecting' AI upstart, and more
Plus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts
16 Mar 2020 06:33 | 7
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