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3 Years After the Maven Uproar, Google Cozies to the Pentagon
Jack Poulson, a former Googler who is now executive director of nonprofit Tech Inquiry, says the air gap and Maven…
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This Company Tapped AI for Its Website—and Landed in Court
Automating the work of complying with those guidelines could make the web more welcoming. But more than 600 accessibility experts…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka Imagine AI’s Potential for Good
When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The…
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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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