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Microsoft-Led Team Retracts Disputed Quantum-Computing Paper
A Microsoft-led team of physicists has retracted a high-profile 2018 paper that the company touted as a key breakthrough in…
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AI Finally Shattered the Record for World’s Hardest Video Game
Who says shame can’t be an effective motivator? Less than a week after we shared Wesley Liao’s experiments using machine…
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Google HR Responds to Claims of Sexism, Racism With Therapy Recommendations: Report
Photo: Amy Osborne (Getty Images) It’s no secret that Google has some serious internal issues with systemic racism and sexism,…
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Unfortunately.io Spits Out AI-Generated Rejection Emails
Screenshot: Unfortunately.io/Gizmodo Crushing a starry-eyed startup’s hopes and dreams can be a pain, but now you can outsource that emotional…
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Facebook’s New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help
Most artificial intelligence is still built on a foundation of human toil. Peer inside an AI algorithm and you’ll find…
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An AI Was Taught to Play the World’s Hardest Video Game
What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that…
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As China Rises, the US Builds Toward a Bigger Role in AI
For decades, the US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is…
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Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech
Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an…
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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Is Now Armed—in the Name of Art
In Spot’s Rampage, the robot roams an art gallery with a paintball gun. Boston Dynamics has racked up hundreds of…
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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) Google has fired another top artificial intelligence researcher, Margaret Mitchell, in the latest escalation of…
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