TNWArtificial Intelligence 4 ideas about AI that even ‘experts’ get wrong verified_publisherTNW - Ben DicksonThe history of artificial intelligence has been marked by repeated cycles of extreme optimism and promise followed by disillusionment and disappointment. Today’s AI systems can perform complicated tasks...
TNWFungi Mushrooms on Mars is a hoax — stop believing hack ‘scientists’ verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneThere is no evidence that mushrooms or any other form of life exists on Mars. The Mars rover did not take a picture of fungi growing on the planet. And so-called ‘scientists’ did not explain the existence...
TNWTechnology Researchers say this combo of old-school invisible ink and AI is ‘uncrackable’ verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneA team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a system by which invisible ink and a basic cipher can be combined with relatively simple AI to create an ‘uncrackable’...
TNWUniverse Carnegie Mellon researchers trained AI to simulate our universe on a GPU verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneSimulating the universe is difficult. There are, after all, potentially infinite variables to consider. Scientists typically use supercomputers to crunch data at the cosmological level, but a team of from...
TNWFacebook Signal’s smartass ad exposes Facebook’s creepy data collection verified_publisherTNW - Thomas MacaulayFacebook is notorious for generating creepily personal ads from reams of user data, but most people don’t understand how the system works. Now, an attack ad campaign by Signal has shone some light on opaque...
TNWAutomation How automation could turn capitalism into socialism verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneThere can be no doubt that automation is the future of work. There’s plenty of debate as to what extent AI will displace workers in the near and far future, but the general consensus is that blue collar...
TNWPatents Campaigners call for Spotify to disavow ‘dangerous’ speech recognition patent verified_publisherTNW - Thomas MacaulayCampaigners today demanded that Spotify renounces a patent for speech recognition tech that recommends music based on someone’s “emotional state, gender, age, or accent.” The patent, which was granted...
TNWGoogle AI Apple snaps up ex-Google AI leader who quit in the wake of Timnit Gebru’s firing verified_publisherTNW - Thomas MacaulayApple has hired former Google AI scientist Samy Bengio, who resigned from the Big G following the controversial firing of ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. Bengio will lead a new AI research unit and report...
TNWArtificial Intelligence How politicians manipulate the masses with simple AI verified_publisherTNW - Tristan GreeneWe’re three and a half years away from electing another president here in the US, but it’s never to early too prepare ourselves for the impending crapshow that is US politics. The good news is, going you...
TNWGPT-3 GPT-3 sucks at pick-up lines — here’s what that tells us about computer-generated language verified_publisherTNW - The ConversationHave you ever wondered what flirting with artificial intelligence would look like? Research scientist and engineer Janelle Shane has given us an idea by training a neural network – an algorithm loosely...
TNWReinforcement Learning This new robotics challenge could bring us closer to human-level AI verified_publisherTNW - Ben DicksonSince the early decades of artificial intelligence, humanoid robots have been a staple of sci-fi books, movies, and cartoons. Yet, after decades of research and development in AI, we still have nothing...
