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The FTC Is Closing In on Runaway AI
The US regulator is eager to end unfair use of artificial intelligence and commercial surveillance, but experts remain skeptical. Source…
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Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound…
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Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It
Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is known for haunting paintings that blend natural landscapes with the eerie futurism of giant robots,…
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How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and…
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Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a…
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Smiling Dogs? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
However, after several decades, it appears as if captcha’s dominance over the internet could be waning. Apple has decided to…
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Sloppy Use of Machine Learning is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
Kapoor and Narayanan organized a workshop late last month to draw attention to what they call a “reproducibility crisis” in…
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Amazon’s iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes
After decades of creating war machines and home cleaning appliances, iRobot agreed to be acquired by Amazon for $1.7 billion,…
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We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About … Itself
Kuki can talk about everything from music to sports to politics and religion! And beyond that as well Would you…
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How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story
With the film, I like how you sit there and you’re like, oh, what am I watching? Why is the…
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