US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years
In briefPlus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous
02 Aug 2020 | 34
Artificial Intelligence
So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet
Don't bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it's 430 million light years away
02 Aug 2020 | 10
Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected
A neural net takes to heart the old, silly saying: 'On the internet, men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents'
30 Jul 2020 | 139
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China's)
Uncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what?
28 Jul 2020 | 52
New Zealand government to explain its algorithms to stop robo-bias warping policy
But won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is
28 Jul 2020 | 8
Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?
In briefPlus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans
27 Jul 2020 | 16
Amazon's auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers
Want your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There's a program for that
23 Jul 2020 | 25
Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here's a way to Fawkes them right up
Cloaking code contaminates snapshots so they're useless for face matching
22 Jul 2020 | 68
SEC drags Silicon Valley AI upstart to court over claims of made-up revenues, investors swindled out of $11m
No, surely not, no way, we're utterly shocked
22 Jul 2020 | 3
World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong
Funny that!
21 Jul 2020 | 15
Germany bans Tesla from claiming its Autopilot software is potentially autonomous
In briefAlso: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation
20 Jul 2020 | 22
51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home
I am not a .... {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI}
20 Jul 2020 | 88
Nvidia watches Brit upstart Graphcore swing into rear-view mirror waving beastly second-gen AI chip hardware
VideoColossus Mk2 boasts of even more transistors than the top GPU
16 Jul 2020 | 14
Don't want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It's now easier to opt out of the slurp
And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah?
15 Jul 2020 | 1
You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
The only winning move is... not to play?
13 Jul 2020 | 37
Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software
In briefPlus: IB students kick up a stink over algorithm grading, and more
13 Jul 2020 | 35
Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest
Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service
13 Jul 2020 | 3
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 | 16
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 | 19
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 | 59
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 | 98
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 | 6
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 | 24
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 | 36
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 | 40
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 | 102
Machine-learning models trained on pre-COVID data are now completely out of whack, says Gartner
That AI-powered product and price recommendation engine? Useless now
23 Jun 2020 | 35
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 | 14
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 | 32
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 | 50
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 |
Infosys turns pandemic experience into ‘Return to workplace solutions’
Cloud-and-AI powered video surveillance, maybe even GPS and wearables, to detect close-standers and mask-avoiders
12 Jun 2020 | 1
After IBM axed its face-recog tech, the rest of the dominoes fell like a house of cards: Amazon and now Microsoft. Checkmate
At least its bandwagon-detection AI still works
12 Jun 2020 | 43
Well, we tried being a non-profit... OpenAI is now open as in open for business with GPT-3 cloud language model API
UpdatedThis tech can't be all that dangerous if it's now sold as a service
12 Jun 2020 | 1
AWS won't sell facial-recog tool to police for a year – other law enforcement agencies are in the clear
UpdatedCop block doesn't mention BLM, nods to legislative interest in writing rules for AI ethics
11 Jun 2020 | 14
