Artificial intelligence

Asia & Pacific 05/30/21, 16:23

A United Nations report published in March of this year details a 2020 incident in Libya where a 'killer drone' self-activated to hunt a human target without prior command from a person during an armed conflict between the military and a group of civilians. According to the British news outlet The ...

World 04/21/21, 18:18

In a truly bizarre video, an artificially intelligent adult doll bashes humanity by criticizing its existence and ineptitude, promising to take over the Earth after humans destroy themselves while urging them to stop imagining that there is a deity that can save them. In the two-and-a-half-minute video uploaded by NewsFlare.com, an ...

United Kingdom 03/30/21, 04:00

The UK government is investing in technology companies developing automated verification to prove whether people are vaccinated and enable or disallow them entry to bars, stadiums, and other public locations. It is being suggested that the technology solves the problem that displaying vaccination records on a mobile application would be too ...

Culture 01/14/21, 15:54

The repression directed against the Uighur Muslim minority by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reached a new stage after Chinese technological giants register patents to detect, track, and monitor Uighurs. In contrast, fears about the repression against such minorities increase. According to the BBC, Huawei's patent was originally filed in ...

News 12/23/20, 16:12

Google requires its scientists to refer to "sensitive subjects," such as the damage that technology can cause by adjusting to its parameters, where negative references must be avoided. These regulations are derived from internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work, according to Reuters of Dec. 23. Before addressing issues ...

News 08/27/20, 15:16

The Trump administration announced that it will invest more than $1 billion in quantum institutes and artificial intelligence (AI) to technologically support economic development and national security. Parallel to AI, work will be done on quantum information science (QIS), 5G Internet communications, and other related emerging technologies, the U.S. Office of ...

Politics 06/13/19, 20:01

Lawmakers and experts are warning that videos altered with artificial intelligence software pose a threat to national security and the 2020 U.S. election. The technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos — known as "deep fakes" — that appear genuine. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says it allows "malicious ...

Tech 06/12/19, 20:30

Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his one-man domination of the world. It's the latest flap over deviously altered "deepfake" videos as Facebook ...

Tech 05/27/19, 21:30

Exhibitors at Computex - Asia's largest tech show - are expected to show how ordinary devices can use artificial intelligence

Tech 05/18/19, 04:00

Turning dust into DNA allows scientists to become detectives in tracing the movement of objects

Tech 05/08/19, 02:09

Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they're being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing scrutiny of their data collection practices..Trouble is, few experts appear ready to celebrate ...

Tech 05/06/19, 23:50

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to showcase much-anticipated updates to the company's hardware lines and artificial intelligence Tuesday during his keynote at the company's annual I/O conference for software developers.Google will also likely address privacy updates as concerns about data sharing continue to plague the tech industry. Facebook dedicated ...

Business 05/06/19, 20:29

When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran.At the time, Amazon had been selling its Echo smart speaker, powered by its Alexa voice assistant, for more than a year . Apple's Siri was already five years old and familiar ...

Entertainment 04/23/19, 09:40

Ian McEwan is fascinated by artificial intelligence.A central character in the British writer's new novel, "Machines Like Me," is a lifelike android with access to all human knowledge who writes haiku poetry.The book, published in the U.S. on Tuesday by Doubleday, looks at the messy relationship between human minds and ...

U.S. 04/19/19, 13:14

China is trying to catch up on AI, but is still far behind the U.S.

U.S. 04/16/19, 14:43

YouTube might need a few more humans. The machines whose job is to tamp down conspiracy theories are not cutting it just yet.As people around the world Monday turned to YouTube to watch Notre Dame Cathedral burn in Paris, an automated system attached background information about the Sept. 11 terror ...

Business 04/10/19, 13:00

Congress is starting to show interest in prying open the "black box" of tech companies' artificial intelligence with oversight that parallels how the federal government checks under car hoods and audits banks. One proposal introduced Wednesday and co-sponsored by a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Cory Booker, would require big companies to ...

Business 04/07/19, 12:40

The biggest tech companies want you to know that they're taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants doesn't spill over to the dark side. But their efforts to assuage concerns that their machines may be ...

Tech 04/03/19, 14:06

Facial recognition technology was already seeping into everyday life — from your photos on Facebook to police scans of mugshots — when Joy Buolamwini noticed a serious glitch: Some of the software couldn't detect dark-skinned faces like hers.That revelation sparked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher to launch a project ...

Politics 03/27/19, 16:42

Amid growing concern about the risks of Google and other U.S. companies doing business in China, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the CEO of Google has "strongly stated" that he is "totally committed" to the American, not Chinese, military. The president wrote on Twitter: "Just met with SundarPichai, President of ...