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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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These New Tools Could Make AI Vision Systems Less Biased
Two new papers from Sony and Meta describe novel methods to make bias detection fairer.
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Driverless Car Company Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter
U.K.-based driverless car company Wayve has tapped chatbot technology to question its vehicles about their driving decisions.
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These Tools Could Help Protect Our Pictures From AI
However, these tools are neither perfect, nor enough on their own.
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This Startup Engineered a Clever Way to Reuse Waste Heat from Cloud Computing
Heata is now using these busy servers to heat water for homes.
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This Tool could Protect Your Pictures from AI Manipulation
PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.
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Is the Digital Dollar Dead?
Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the U.S.—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.
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Junk Websites Filled with AI-Generated Text are Pulling In Money from Programmatic Ads
More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.
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Your Digital Life Isn't as Permanent as You Think It Is
Google will delete accounts after two years of inactivity, and experts expect more data deletion policies to come.
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Rust Never Sleeps
How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language.
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Babies Conceived with Sperm-Injecting Robot Have Been Born
Scientists claim the first two babies conceived by a sperm-injecting robot have been born.
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Google Just Launched Bard, its Answer to ChatGPT—and it Wants You to Make It Better
Under pressure from its rivals, Google is updating the way we look for information by introducing a sidekick to its search engine
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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What's Next for the Chip Industry
Aggressive new U.S. policies will be put to the test in 2023. They could ultimately fragment the global semiconductor industry.
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Uber's Facial Recognition is Locking Indian Drivers Out of their Accounts
Uber checks that a driver's face matches what the company has on file through a program called "Real-Time ID Check."
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Blockchain Game Could Help Create Metaverse No One Owns
The sci-fi-themed online game Dark Forest operates on a blockchain, meaning no one can manipulate its outcome.
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Twitter May Have Lost More than a Million Users Since Musk Took Over
Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while a half-million more were suspended...
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Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—and It's Giving It Away for Free
Facebook's parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3.
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Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—And It's Giving It Away for Free
Facebook's parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3.
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House-Flipping Algorithms are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying's failure doesn't signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.
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