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Google Sends Assistant’s ‘Your News Update’ to the Graveyard
Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP (Getty Images) In case you were fond of “Your News Update,” the feature on Google…
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These Robots Follow You to Learn Where to Go
Fruit and nut growers are increasingly incorporating computer vision into their work. Tastry, for example, uses AI to look for…
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Even as China Cracks Down on Tech, AI Companies Plan IPOs
The motives behind the government action are complicated. Officially, it is designed to curb anti-competitive practices, secure private data, and…
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Facebook Drops Facial Recognition to Tag People in Photos
Raji said it’s always good when companies take public steps to signal that technology is dangerous but cautioned that people…
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This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
Beyond Schmidt and Jassy, members included Andrew Moore, Google’s head of cloud AI; Safra Catz, co-CEO of Oracle; Eric Horvitz,…
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This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes
Delphi taps the fruits of recent advances in AI and language. Feeding very large amounts of text to algorithms that…
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Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close
Facebook launched support for Arabic in 2009 and scored a hit. Soon after, the service won plaudits for helping the…
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Join Us for This Year’s RE:WIRED Celebration
Our world is facing some of the most critical challenges of all time. While the past decade ushered in dramatic…
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AI’s Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
Calvin Qi, who works at a search startup called Glean, would love to use the latest artificial intelligence algorithms to…
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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it…
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