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AI Will Make Fake News Video — and Fight It As Well

Just weeks after one research team appeared to put words in a leader’s mouth, here comes a new tool that can check questionable video for a pulse.

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Amazon Could Replace CAPTCHA With a Turing Test You’re Meant to Fail

Amazon could soon rely on our little mistakes to prove we’re human.

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Which Digital Assistant Reigns Supreme?

It's Siri vs. Google Assistant vs. Bixby.

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Is That Really You Typing? New DOD Tech Will Know

In its quest to drop common access cards, the Defense Department is piloting an authentication system based on the nuances of users' typing.

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It Will Take Human-Machine Teams to Fight Cyber Threats, McAfee CTO Says

Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans, but it will change the way they work.

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How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path

Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.

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DOD Officials: Use AI-Fueled Systems to Inform Policy-Makers, Not To Kill

Artificial intelligence is taking on a growing role in intelligence analysis in North Korea.

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MIT Researchers Can Now Track AI’s Decisions Back to Single Neurons

AI researchers have had a breakthrough.

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If You’re Not a White Male, Artificial Intelligence’s Use in Health Care Could Be Dangerous

AI has the potential to revolutionize health care, if done right.

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Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Perceptions Matter As Much As Reality

The average person's opinion matters.

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To Improve AI, Scientists May Have to Make it Worse

Machine learning today isn’t great at knowing when it should hold on to old information, and when those data have become outdated.

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The Mars Robot Making Decisions on Its Own

Thanks to artificial-intelligence software, the Curiosity rover can target rocks without human input.

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Low-Skill Workers Aren’t Actually the Ones Most Threatened by Robots

Thanks primarily to automation, and to a lesser extent globalization, no rich country’s middle-skilled workers are safe.

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How Not to Win an AI Arms Race With China

A lawmaker’s proposal to curb Chinese investment in U.S. artificial-intelligence firms has more than a few critics.

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Agencies Are a Step Closer to Creating Their Own Siri

Siri, Alexa and Facebook chatbots might soon be handling common customer service roles in government.

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Is it Unethical to Design Robots to Resemble Humans?

The more we humanize chatbots, virtual assistants and machines, the more we in turn display human emotions toward them.

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What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like

Facebotlish looks pretty weird to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

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Why 'Skilled in Machine Learning' Should Be the New 'Proficient in Excel' On Your Resume

The only difference? What you bring to table will be more valuable than a pivot tables or color-coded pie charts.

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Facebook Built an AI System That Learned to Lie to Get What it Wants

Humans are natural negotiators. Machines typically don’t share that affinity, but new research from Facebook’s AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that.

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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?

Humans made a huge cognitive leap when they first sketched figures onto rocks—now, computers are learning to do the same.