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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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A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google
For the second time in three months, a prominent woman researcher on ethics in artificial intelligence says Google fired her.…
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The AI Research Paper Was Real. The ‘Coauthor’ Wasn’t
David Cox, the head of a prestigious artificial intelligence lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was scanning an online computer science bibliography…
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A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can…
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Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories
Siroker won’t be drilling into skulls to rewire brains. Instead, the plan is to methodically capture and store all sorts…
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