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A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There's still some ethical concerns.
We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?
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These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
A.I. hasn't come for our jobs just yet, but it can figure out who is looking for a new one.
A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.
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Can AI make better predictions about future crimes?
Without regulations, implicit bias could shape artificial intelligence into a nightmare for some.
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Ezra Klein offers good reasons to take a skeptical look at automation apocalypse theories.
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Can technology act as a feedback loop for human emotions?
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Job applicants now have to contend with the growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring decisions.
We each have a way of moving to music that is so unique a computer can use it to identify us.
From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.
Perhaps sooner than we think, we'll need to examine the moral standing of intelligent machines.
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An international study finds the vast majority of 15-year-olds can't tell when they're being manipulated.
Robots may be able to beat us at chess, but they still have trouble when it comes to soft skills — making sense of human behavior.
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Deepfakes are "neither intrinsically good nor evil."
This is what you need to do to keep up with today's digital progress.
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What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?
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A company claims to make the world's first humanoid android and offers 'digital immortality".
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
The power to predict the next revolution keeps companies on top.
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A review of the multifaceted questions we'll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an "inner feel."
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We can either be fearful of artificial intelligence, or embrace it as a tool to help us improve service.
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Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That's one question deep learning can't answer.
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So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
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Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.
For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?
We're bored, and we've lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let's fix that.
Artificial intelligence has proven equal and even better than humans in making some diagnoses.