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It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
Code pours from Feross Aboukhadijeh’s fingers. As a devotee of the open source software movement, he has written immensely popular…
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Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers
On March 1, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood…
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This App Can Diagnose Rare Diseases From a Child’s Face
In 2012, Moti Shniberg sold his face recognition startup to Facebook and started looking for a new challenge. “We wanted…
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The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests
Quinn says the spread of facial recognition technology has led investigators to believe there will be suitable digital evidence in…
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How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men’s Lives
After his arrest, Parks didn’t tell many people, in part because of his prior record. “When you’re trying to do…
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YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos
Nearly 400,000 people subscribe to the YouTube account Rob the Robot – Learning Videos For Children. In one 2020 video,…
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China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Wen Li, a Shanghai marketer in the hospitality industry, first suspected that an algorithm was messing with her when she…
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How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software
Last year, Shirin Nilizadeh got a call from a friend who had been worn down looking for a job. Her…
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The Elusive Hunt for a Robot That Can Pick a Ripe Strawberry
Rhee said Traptic stood out from other companies in the space because its robot doesn’t touch the strawberry. Instead it…
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Face Recognition Is Out. So How Will the IRS Verify Identity?
Such problems led the IRS and many others to switch to alternatives, such as sending a code to a phone…
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