Tweeting from NYC? There’s a good chance you’re talking about art. LA? More likely health care.
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Autonomous robots hold great promise for the agricultural sector, but it’s vital that the public gets a say in their creation.
Factory robots could soon acquire a range of skills, including the ability to choose how to make things.
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Custom fabrication involves taking measurements, choosing tools, deciding on sequences of steps and ordering from a menu of materials. AIs under development promise to take humans out of the loop.
It’s challenging to make virtual assistants sound natural and conversational?
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As the use of virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa expand in homes and workplaces, designers are working to make voice exchanges more natural.
It doesn’t take a human mind to produce misinformation convincing enough to fool experts in such critical fields as cybersecurity.
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Priyanka Ranade, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County et Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bots flooding social media with fake news about politics is bad enough. Muddying the waters in such fields as cybersecurity and health care could put lives at risk.
Through the act of suggesting some words and not others, the predictive text features in our devices change the way we think — and therefore shape our culture.
Global governance of artificial intelligence is necessary to regulate AI industries.
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The new EU regulation is about to change the way we do artificial intelligence. The United Nations needs to follow suit.
The left photo shows a Kodak booth in Australia in the 1930s. The right photo is it colourized using the software program DeOldify.
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Automated content moderation using algorithms are quick and cheaper. But, they’re not necessarily better than human beings. They are prone to errors and can impose bias in a systemic scale.
A responsible approach to the use of artificial intelligence by government requires transparency. The Canadian government’s use of AI in making immigration decisions warrants further investigation.
Endearing and amusing, AI’s faltering attempts at flirting show how far computer-generated language has come.
The FTC put companies that sell AI systems on notice: Cross the line with biased products and the law is coming for you.
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The Federal Trade Commission is rattling its saber at the technology industry over growing public concern about biased AI algorithms. Can the agency back up its threats?