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Car Buyers Should Be Wary When Taking Out Loans: Consumer Reports
Spencer PlattGetty Images There’s not a ton of easily available data on the auto loan landscape in the U.S., so…
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Google Hopes AI Can Turn Search Into a Conversation
Google often uses its annual developer conference, I/O, to showcase artificial intelligence with a wow factor. In 2016, it introduced…
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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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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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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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It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
OpenAI said the service would empower businesses and startups and granted Microsoft, a hefty backer of OpenAI, an exclusive license…
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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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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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The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors
The current boom in artificial intelligence can be traced back to 2012 and a breakthrough during a competition built around…
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