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New York Returns Its Police ‘Robodog’ After a Public Outcry
The New York Police Department said Thursday it will stop using the “Digidog,” a four-legged robot occasionally deployed for recon…
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Ford’s Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles…
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This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology…
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AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll
Most of the scribes who copied the text contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls were anonymous, as they neglected to…
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Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code
It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be…
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Europe’s Proposed Limits on AI Would Have Global Consequences
The European Union proposed rules that would restrict or ban some uses of artificial intelligence within its borders, including by…
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How Face Recognition Can Destroy Anonymity
Stepping out in public used to make a person largely anonymous. Unless you met someone you knew, nobody would know…
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Microsoft Makes a $16 Billion Entry Into Health Care AI
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to investors Monday about his company’s plan to acquire speech-recognition specialist Nuance for $16…
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AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren’t Happy
In the Before Times, Jerry McNee wasn’t always a fan of appraisers. McNee is the president of Ultimate Collision Repair,…
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BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line
German carmaker BMW plans to start making drivetrains for electric vehicles at a vast factory in Regensburg, Bavaria, later in…
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