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Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs
Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, a fast-food chain in Ohio, hardly seems an obvious venue for cutting-edge artificial intelligence. But the…
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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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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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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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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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