Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society
Technologies like artificial intelligence and human genome editing “reveal and reflect even more about the complex and sometimes dangerous social
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Researchers propose using the game Overcooked to benchmark collaborative AI systems
Deep reinforcement learning systems are among the most capable in AI, particularly in the robotics domain. However, in the real
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Ring rolls out end-to-end video encryption after a class action lawsuit
In September, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it would bring end-to-end video encryption to its lineup of home security devices. While
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OpenAI debuts DALL-E for generating images from text
OpenAI today debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP, like DALL-E, a system that generates images
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Uber researchers propose AI language model that emphasizes positive and polite responses
AI-powered assistants like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google Assistant are pervasive. But for these assistants to engage users and help
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Alphabet Workers Union launches with hundreds of members demanding change
Contractors and employees working at Alphabet companies like Google have formed the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). More than 50 Google
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Nuro becomes first company to receive commercial autonomous vehicle permit from California DMV
Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it’s the first company to receive permission from
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Sony AI launches the Gastronomy Flagship Project to apply AI to cooking
In April 2020, Sony launched Sony AI, an organization with offices in Japan, the U.S., and Europe undertaking AI R&D
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This is how Google’s internet-serving Loon balloons can float for nearly a year
Alphabet’s Loon balloons recently set a record for most consecutive days spent aloft in the stratosphere. How’d they do it?
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AI Weekly: NeurIPS 2020 and the hope for change
On Monday morning, organizers of NeurIPS, the largest annual gathering of AI researchers in the world, gave Best Paper awards
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What Big Tech and Big Tobacco research funding have in common
Amid declining sales and evidence that smoking causes lung cancer, in the 1950s tobacco companies undertook PR campaigns to reinvent
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Timnit Gebru: Google’s ‘dehumanizing’ memo paints me as an angry Black woman
In a companywide memo to employees Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he’s sorry about the way the company fired
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Microsoft launches effort to fight corruption with AI and other emerging technologies
Microsoft today announced the launch of Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions (ACTS), an initiative it says will leverage cloud computing, data
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Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers
Computer scientists in AI are beginning to refuse to review Google AI research until Google changes its stance on former
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AI Weekly: In firing Timnit Gebru, Google puts commercial interests ahead of ethics
This week, Timnit Gebru, a leading AI researcher, was fired from her position on an AI ethics team at Google
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AI Weekly: The state of machine learning in 2020
It’s hard to believe, but a year in which the unprecedented seemed to happen every day is just weeks from
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