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John Deere’s Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming
Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled…
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Facebook Says Its New AI Can Identify More Problems Faster
Few-Shot Learner is pretrained on a firehose of billions of Facebook posts and images in more than 100 languages. The…
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A forthcoming report by the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), a private nonprofit, recommends requiring disclosure when an AI model is…
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Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
One year ago Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru tweeted, “I was fired” and ignited a controversy over the freedom…
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This Company Tapped AI for Its Website—and Landed in Court
Automating the work of complying with those guidelines could make the web more welcoming. But more than 600 accessibility experts…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the…
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This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes
Delphi taps the fruits of recent advances in AI and language. Feeding very large amounts of text to algorithms that…
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AI’s Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
Calvin Qi, who works at a search startup called Glean, would love to use the latest artificial intelligence algorithms to…
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These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it…
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A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News
Fittingly, Miskin’s account came with the hard-to-verify promise that her profile photo was generated by AI. Bendiksen spent weeks curating…
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