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Don’t End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
When a person dies in a car crash in the US, data on the incident is typically reported to the…
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The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the…
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Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess With Your Sense of the World
Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of the…
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AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language
In recent years, researchers have used artificial intelligence to improve translation between programming languages or automatically fix problems. The AI…
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GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
When OpenAI demonstrated a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm capable of generating coherent text last June, its creators warned that the…
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These Ex-Journalists Are Using AI to Catch Online Defamation
The insight driving CaliberAI is that this universe is a bounded infinity. While AI moderation is nowhere close to being…
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Twitter’s Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague—from photos…
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This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
You talkin’ to me … in German? New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from…
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Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ / Contributor (Getty Images) Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until…
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Veritone Launches Deepfake Audio Platform for Celebrities to License AI-Generated Voice Clips
Graphic: Veritone Whenever deepfakes make the news, it’s almost always for the latest terrifying way bad actors have figured out…
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