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AI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush
In the years since, a wave of investment from companies large and small has spread face recognition around the world, has installed always-listening virtual…
New US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry
“The Biden administration believes that the hype around the transformative potential of AI in military applications is real,” says Allen of CSIS. “The United…
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be…
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update…
The Joy and Dread of AI Image Generators Without Limits
Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a person can…
A Tamil teen claims to have designed Raffi, a robot with emotions: Why it matters | Digit
Folks, meet Raffi, a robot with emotions, or so its developer Prateek vaunts. The latter is a 13-year-old student from Tamil Nadu who has apparently created…
How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and cannot be fixed through…