Roundup

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In brief Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial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

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

Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?

In brief Plus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans

AI + ML27 Jul 2020 | 16

Germany bans Tesla from claiming its Autopilot software is potentially autonomous

In brief Also: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation

AI + ML20 Jul 2020 | 22

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

In brief Plus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research

AI + ML05 Jul 2020 | 59

Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon'

In brief Plus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more

AI + ML27 Jun 2020 | 24

Machine learning devs can now run GPU-accelerated code on Windows devices on AMD's chips, OpenAI applies GPT-2 to computer vision

Roundup Plus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more

AI + ML22 Jun 2020 |

Mine how you go: Kubeflow ML clusters hijacked to craft crypto-coins, Facebook code used to dig up actual minerals

Roundup Plus: Facial-recognition to check whether you glanced at an ad during a football game

AI + ML14 Jun 2020 |

NASA launches a challenge to fund AI systems for future spacecraft – hopefully without HAL-style errors

Roundup Also, you can read the first AI-generated manga comic in English

AI + ML08 Jun 2020 | 18

Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain

Roundup Plus: Zuck wants machines to spot bad memes on Facebook

AI + ML18 May 2020 | 6

Facebook's mega-chatbot has 'a persona, discusses nearly any topic, shows empathy.' Perfect for CEO version 2

Roundup Plus: OpenAI's music-making software isn't half bad ... and Banjo boss's KKK shame

AI + ML04 May 2020 | 15

Facebook, AWS team up to produce open-source PyTorch AI libraries, grad student says he successfully used GPT-2 to write his homework....

Roundup ...Nvidia CEO to unveil new tech on YouTube, and more from machine-learning world

AI + ML26 Apr 2020 | 12

Who knows the secret of the black magic box? Boffins seek the secrets of AI learning by mapping digital neurons

Roundup And Zoox setlles with Elon's Musketeers over purloined IP

AI + ML20 Apr 2020 | 4

Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft

Roundup Plus more news from the world of machine learning

AI + ML06 Apr 2020 | 9

Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI

Roundup Your quick summary of neural network news

AI + ML30 Mar 2020 | 13

TensorFlow gets its quantum of solace, lid lifted on 'all-seeing crime-detecting' AI upstart, and more

Roundup Plus: Machine-learning software scans ancient texts

AI + ML16 Mar 2020 | 7