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Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more

23 Oct 03:30 | 21

AI isn’t just about disruption. Integration is essential, too

Learn how to take the broad view by tuning into this webcast early next month

Arm teases its GPU that will follow next year's graphics processor tech

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin

21 Oct 06:27 | 7

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says

18 Oct 12:15 | 127

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 11:01 | 26

Former Intel AI boss Naveen Rao is now counting the cost of machine learning, literally

MosaicMLdelving into the details

14 Oct 00:40 | 1

Megachips or decoupled approach? AI chip design companies accounting for operating costs

Chip crunch pulls focus

12 Oct 18:10 | 1

Astroboffins reckon they've detected four hidden exoplanets by probing distant radio waves

It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe

12 Oct 01:30 | 10

Behold the Megatron: Microsoft and Nvidia build massive language processor

MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs

12 Oct 00:36 | 23

Clearview CEO doubles down, claims biz has now scraped over ten billion social media selfies for surveillance

Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates

09 Oct 18:08 | 25

How not to train your Dragon: What happens when you teach an AI game sex-abuse stories then blame players

Next chapter in AI Dungeon saga: Banning gamers for what the bot said

08 Oct 00:04 | 96

Euro Parliament backs ban on cops using blanket facial-recognition surveillance

Majority of MEPs want end to police face-ID'ing anyone and everyone in public, and more

07 Oct 06:22 | 19

Open Sesame, says Google... to voice identification: Speech ID adds biometric security to call-centre bots

Eleven. Eleh-ven. Ala-vuhn*. Oh never mind

06 Oct 18:21 | 15

User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies'

06 Oct 05:00 | 34

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 23:33 | 21

University, Nvidia team teaches robots to get a grip with OpenAI's CLIP

Gone are the days where you have to show a machine a gazillion images in different poses and lighting conditions

01 Oct 14:32 | 2

Intel offers Loihi 2 to boffins: A 7nm chip with more than 1m programmable neurons

Before you call it dumb, take a look at its biological counterparts on this planet

01 Oct 02:28 | 10

EU and US seek 'common principles' for data governance and AI

Technology, security, competitiveness also on agenda. *Cough* Privacy Shield *cough*

30 Sep 16:57 | 11

If it's going to rain within the next 90 mins, this very British AI system can warn you

Met Office, DeepMind, uni team hope their work will make a splash

30 Sep 06:35 | 58

US drug watchdog green-lights first prostate-cancer-predicting AI software

Computer vision tool mildly helps doctors identify potentially cancerous cells

30 Sep 01:43 | 5

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Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections

Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more

Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone

WebKit engine is well behind the competition

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code

Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales

Windows giant has a funny way of 'loving' Free software

How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem

Look what you found! Aren't you clever!

BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master

Corporate will make you jump through hoops – but there's always a window

Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review

Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front

Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it

Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more

Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter

Chipzilla braces for a China-gaming-ban-shaped hole in future results, predicts more product delays

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Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive

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Seeing as everyone loves cloud subscriptions, get ready for car-as-a-service future

Chip titans driving shift to paid-for over-the-air feature upgrades

29 Sep 00:46 | 39

Amazon's AI chips find their way into Astro butler bot, latest wall-hanging display

$1,500 gets you a robo-dog that can't handle stairs ... so here's a flying camera, too

28 Sep 21:10 | 11

Self-sailing Mayflower ship to have another crack at Atlantic crossing next year

Big Blue to return to the big blue waves

27 Sep 22:14 | 16

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 19:06 | 39

EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'

All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries

24 Sep 17:36 | 20

Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks

Inside the software built to figure out groups of potentially infected, asymptomatic passengers

23 Sep 06:26 | 33

Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'

22 Sep 21:18 | 18

Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS

Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code

22 Sep 17:13 | 2

Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor

'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'

22 Sep 06:35 | 45

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

21 Sep 13:45 | 12

If you’re plotting AI success, you need graph algorithms

Connect with experts of all stripes at the Graph+AI Summit

Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with

No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral

17 Sep 05:47 | 33

Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins

The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs

17 Sep 03:55 | 15

It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights

But that's what UN group has done

16 Sep 21:40 | 13

If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this

Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start

16 Sep 13:47 | 41

US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju

Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride

14 Sep 16:01 | 15

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