Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s Bots Thrashed Former Professional E-Sports Players at Dota 2
The bots won two of the three matches played.
Artificial Intelligence
The ACLU Used Amazon’s Facial Recognition And It Labelled Congress Members As Criminals
The ACLU is using this demonstration to call for a moratorium on police use of facial-recognition technology.
Emerging Tech
Waymo Just Laid Out Its Vision For a Driverless Future
The company wants to incorporate ride-sharing into its business model.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Is Building “Virtual Agents” to Handle Call Centers’ Grunt Work
The company is working with at least a dozen partners.
Emerging Tech
DARPA’s New Cars Are Mechanical Mountain Goats
These vehicles can handle rough or extremely uneven terrain.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Is Using AI to See Inside the Brain Like Never Before
New data might help neuroscientists better understand the structure of the brain.
Emerging Tech
Microsoft Wants Congress to Regulate Facial Recognition
One of these metrics for regulation could be ensuring the technology works similarly for all
Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Getting Closer to Replacing Animal Testing
The algorithm can predict results from nine different tests.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s Duplex AI Could Kill the Call Center
And little is known about how this AI system actually works.
Artificial Intelligence
Tech Companies Just Woke Up to a Big Problem With Their AI
AI and facial recognition are colliding in an alarming way.
Emerging Tech
CEO of a Facial Recognition Company: The Tech is Too Volatile to Give to Law Enforcement
A malfunction could mean wrongful identification of an innocent person.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Built a Transforming Flying Robot Dragon
The aircraft actually solves a bunch of problems facing modern drones.
Digital Government
Facial Recognition Is Here to Stay. And We Should All Probably Accept It
The public can still push for transparency and pressure for ethical guidelines to be set in place.
Artificial Intelligence
New Data Could Help Siri And Alexa Know When They’re Being Unhelpful
Knowing when there isn’t enough information to provide an accurate answer is a tricky skill to learn.
Emerging Tech
Amazon Has Already Begun Automating Its White-Collar Jobs
It’s indicative of a wider trend in analytics-based jobs.
Artificial Intelligence
Samsung’s Latest Venture Fund Us Looking For the Next Big Way to Build AI
The company hopes to find new ways of making decisions with computers.
Artificial Intelligence
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Building a Defense Contractor With Consumer Technology
Its first major project: A virtual border wall between the United States and Mexico.
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s New Ethics Rules Forbid Using Its AI For Weapons
Alongside these broad ethical guidelines, Google has also drawn a line in the sand for the AI it will not develop.
Emerging Tech
This Is the Week That the Drone Surveillance State Became Real
Local police have access to drones and footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public.
Artificial Intelligence
For All the Hype, AI Still Hasn’t Impacted the U.S. Economy
It’s still too early to tell what kind of impact the technology might have
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