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Artificial Intelligence Is Great at Predicting the Size of Hurricanes, But Humans Still Need to Figure Out Their Impact
One of the modern computer’s first killer apps was predicting the weather.
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Guess Which Gender Trusts Artificial Intelligence More?
As the government deploys artificial intelligence tools, it may need to address a gender gap in trust.
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What the CIA’s Tech Director Wants from AI
Dawn Meyerriecks says staying ahead of Russia and China isn’t as hard as getting U.S. leaders to listen to their own artificial intelligence analysis.
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Using AI to Identify Protestors Hiding Behind Hats or Scarves Is Entirely Possible
Artificial intelligence is giving rise to unprecedented capabilities for surveillance.
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How the City of Las Vegas Uses AI to Protect Against Hackers
When Las Vegas hosts annual hacker conventions, it prepares its smart infrastructure.
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This Aid Agency Is Using Chatbots to Beat World Hunger
Turning smartphones and social media into lifelines for the most vulnerable of refugees.
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Vladimir Putin Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Global Monopolies and Drone Wars
Russian companies have been actively researching autonomous weapons, such as drones, robots and missiles, which would be able to pick targets and fire on their own.
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3 Questions: Artificial Intelligence and the Military
AI has moved from the movies to the laboratory, and governments around the world want it in their arsenals. We asked how militaries define it, and how they intend to keep it under control.
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack AI’s Decisions
The attack described could make customers warier of how the AI they rely on is trained.
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Feds Take Next Step In Spreading Blockchain Tech
The federal government's buying hub is hosting a workshop about integrating new technology in early September.
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We’re Experiencing the Harry Potterification of Technology
Everyday objects are becoming enchanted as if they’ve been torn from the pages of a Rowling novel.
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Microsoft Is Fixing a Simple Reason Why Voice Assistants Are So Bad
The tech company hopes to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public.
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'We Do Not Have Long to Act': Elon Musk and Others Warn the U.N. About Autonomous Weapons
The prospect of tanks, machine guns and drones that think for themselves becoming widespread is giving tech luminaries the heebie-jeebies.
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If an AI Creates a Work of Art, Who Owns the Rights to It?
AI also raises some thorny issues by potentially impinging on the IP rights of others.
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For the First Time, AI Crushed a Professional Dota 2 Player
“This guy is scary,” the human player repeated during play as the bot whittled down his health.
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Andrew Ng Will Help You Change the World With AI if You Know Calculus and Python
If the next era of human progress is built using AI, who gets to engineer it?
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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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Artificial Intelligence Can Make Voice Technology Less Frustrating
Using AI, a caller can carry on a normal, plain-language conversation with a system that is able to understand the request and help respond to it.
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