Artificial Intelligence

Today in terrible ideas: an AI system that claims to be able to accurately predict your political affiliation…

Well, this is horrifying.

There’s a lot of folks worried about the ethics and future of AI and robotics. Apparently, you can count Pope…

The second U.S. presidential debate of 2020 was more sedate than the first, with its whining, braying, and general…

When the idea behind ClipDrop first appeared a few months ago, it seemed like magic: You could point the app at any…

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, said Thursday that it’s offering its fully driverless robo-taxis to all cus…

A Reddit user went on an impressive comment streak last week. The user stuck to the pages of the mega-popular AskRedd…

In the endlessly escalating war between those striving to create flawless deepfake videos and those developing…

Microsoft is having a hell of a week. On Monday, the company announced a $7.5 billion deal to acquire Zenimax and…

Wolf3D, an Estonian company that originally focused on 3D printing, now has a simple goal: to put your 3D avatar…

As covid-19 disrupted the world in March, online retail giant Amazon struggled to respond to the sudden shift caused…

Earlier this week, MIT permanently pulled its 80 Million Tiny Images dataset—a popular image database used to train…

Neon is the name of the company and also the name of its only product—if you can call it that. I’m told a Neon is a…

Expert human pathologists typically require around 30 minutes to diagnose brain tumors from tissue samples extracted…

Technologists have long speculated on the privacy implications of largely ungoverned, camera-enabled vehicle fleets…

As traditionally depicted, Santa Claus is a kind of cult leader who runs an enormous factory using slave labor and…

When you think of artificial intelligence and cars, the first thing that likely comes to mind is ambitious…

One of the world’s top human champions of Go has decided to retire from playing the strategy game professionally,…

A prepared speech that President Richard Nixon thankfully never had to make has been brought to life in an art…