Roundup

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 | 44

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

Remember OpenAI's GPT model that was too dangerous for mere mortals? Well, it's now for sale on Azure

In brief Plus: Man incorrectly identified as a suspect by a facial recognition software is suing, and more

AI + ML06 Sep 2020 | 13

AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies

In brief Plus: Apple's new machine-learning residency program

AI + ML31 Aug 2020 | 17

Uncle Sam to blow millions on getting fusion power finally working – with the help of AI

In brief Plus: Formula One teamed up with AWS to rank top 20 race car drivers since 1983

AI + ML24 Aug 2020 | 55

Want to hear our beloved David Attenborough narrate your life? Thanks to the power of machine learning, you can

In brief Plus: AI app for the visually impaired – and Clearview lawyers up

AI + ML17 Aug 2020 | 14

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

In brief Plus: Microsoft to dump support for Cortana on iOS, Android phones

AI + ML08 Aug 2020 | 147

US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years

In brief Plus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous

AI + ML02 Aug 2020 | 34