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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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The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the…
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Deepfake Maps Could Really Mess With Your Sense of the World
Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of 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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This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
You talkin’ to me … in German? New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from…
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The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
Last August, several dozen military drones and tank-like robots took to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle.…
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This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology…
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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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