AI
AI Chatbot Shut Down After Learning to Talk Like a Racist Asshole
Imitating humans, the Korean chatbot Luda was found to be racist and homophobic.
Japan Plans to Invest in AI Matchmaking to Boost Its Declining Birth Rate
The government will allocate over $19 million to local authorities that run matchmaking services.
AI Ethicists Are Outraged After Google Fired a Respected Black Researcher
Timnit Gebru says she was terminated Wednesday after expressing frustration with the tech company's white male leadership.
I Paid an AI to Get Me Instagram Followers. It Didn't Go Well
Influencers and pop stars use AI-powered bots to boost their online presence. But what happens if a non-celeb (like me) uses one?
This AI-Algorithm Generated 3,000 New Pokémon
Using machine learning models, Matthew Rayfield let a computer dream up thousands of never-before-imagined monsters.
This New K-Pop Girl Group Has Human and Virtual Members
The idea is drawing mixed reactions, with some saying it's cool and others saying it's creepy.
Can Robots Help People With Their Mental Health?
A study found that most think robots can support their mental health better than people, but experts say there are crucial human qualities technology can’t replicate.
Scientists Are Finding a Ton of New and Mysterious Craters on Mars
Martian craters appear "concentrated in certain areas and we know that physically there is no reason for that,” said a JPL researcher. An AI tool may help figure out why.
What Twitter's Preference for Ted Cruz With Big Anime Boobs Says About AI Bias
Twitter's cropping feature prefers white faces over black faces, fat Pikachu over skinny Pikachu, and Rachel Dolezal over Obama.
OpenAI Exclusively Licensed Its Language-Generating Software to Microsoft
Under the deal Microsoft gets unique access to the powerful model's code, which has never been shared publicly, and can offer GPT-3 to its customers.
Twitter’s AI Revealed to Have Racial Bias After a Viral Photo Experiment
A series of tweets showed the AI choosing to display the photo of a white man over a Black man.
Scientists Created AI to Analyze People's Dreams on a Massive Scale
Scientists analyzed 24,000 dream reports using AI in the largest dream analysis study to date to test the 'continuity hypothesis'—the idea that dreams are influenced by and interact with waking life.