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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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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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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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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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Black and Queer AI Groups Say They’ll Spurn Google Funding
Three groups focused on increasing diversity in artificial intelligence say they will no longer take funding from Google. In a…
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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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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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Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code
It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be…
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