Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview
Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot
09 Jul 2020
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FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?
They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley
09 Jul 2020
Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time
In briefPlus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research
05 Jul 2020
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
Special reportTop uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
01 Jul 2020
Reviewing and profiling your code is boring? Well, Amazon will now sell you an AI editor to do it for you
CodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud
01 Jul 2020
Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon'
In briefPlus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more
27 Jun 2020
Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life
World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think
27 Jun 2020
Detroit cops cuffed, threw a dad misidentified by facial recognition in jail. Now the ACLU's demanding action
Another machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker
24 Jun 2020
Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white
Researchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia
24 Jun 2020
Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans
No intelligent pentesting systems were available to comment on this assertion
24 Jun 2020
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
UpdatedSpringer ditches paper from research tome, boffins rail against junk science
24 Jun 2020
VMware bungled bundling blurt blaring Bitfusion bringing new GPU-and-AI powers to vSphere
Bitfusion integration will require an add-on licence after all, rather than being tossed into vSphere Enterprise Plus
23 Jun 2020
Machine learning devs can now run GPU-accelerated code on Windows devices on AMD's chips, OpenAI applies GPT-2 to computer vision
RoundupPlus: AI for the benefit of humankind group loses a member and more
22 Jun 2020
Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life – they're difficult to train and finicky to fix
An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register
19 Jun 2020
Facebook's $500k deepfake-detector AI contest drama: Winning team disqualified on buried consent technicality
Special reportOh OK, so NOW the social network cares about getting people's permission before using their data to train computer systems
18 Jun 2020
Amazon's not saying its warehouse staff are dumb... but it feels they need artificial intelligence to understand what 'six feet' means
VidThe yellow markings on the floor aren't enough for real neural networks
18 Jun 2020
Mine how you go: Kubeflow ML clusters hijacked to craft crypto-coins, Facebook code used to dig up actual minerals
RoundupPlus: Facial-recognition to check whether you glanced at an ad during a football game
14 Jun 2020
Facebook boffins bake robo-code converter to take the pain out of shifting between C++, Java, Python
Using machine learning to get rid of those awkward code breaks
12 Jun 2020
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