On April 19th, 2021 with 84 comments
Translation tools from Google and other companies could be contributing to significant misunderstanding of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as...
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On April 18th, 2021 with 340 comments
Texas TV station KPRC 2 reports that two men are dead after a Tesla "crashed into a tree and no one was driving the vehicle, officials say."
Long-time...
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On April 15th, 2021 with 16 comments
What if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That's the...
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On April 2nd, 2021 with 142 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Even state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms struggle to recognize the accents of...
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On March 28th, 2021 with 232 comments
Car and Driver magazine has over a million readers. This month they called Tesla's "full self driving" beta "laughably bad and potentially dangerous."
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On March 27th, 2021 with 57 comments
"When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he'd be turning down $60,000 from the tech giant in March," reports CNN:
Stark, an...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 122 comments
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling for new legal protections for workers, warning that they could soon be "hired and fired by algorithm." "Among the...
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On March 21st, 2021 with 67 comments
"If I worked in tech antitrust policy, I would really want to understand why all the cases against Microsoft 20 years ago were such an unqualified failure."...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 48 comments
The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) has decided to suspend its sponsorship relationship with Google, conference...
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On March 2nd, 2021 with 27 comments
Microsoft demonstrated prototype hardware a few years ago that promised meeting rooms of the future with automatic speaker identification, transcription, and...
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On February 25th, 2021 with 141 comments
Alphabet's Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists' work, according to a town hall recording heard by Reuters, part of an effort...
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On February 22nd, 2021 with 66 comments
The first church of artificial intelligence has shut its conceptual doors. From a report: Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who avoided an...
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On February 19th, 2021 with 210 comments
Alphabet's Google on Friday fired scientist Margaret Mitchell, she said in a Twitter post, after weeks of being under investigation for moving thousands of...
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On February 4th, 2021 with 125 comments
An engineering director and a software developer have quit Alphabet's Google over the dismissal of AI researcher Timnit Gebru, a sign of the ongoing conflicts...
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On January 20th, 2021 with 64 comments
Google artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell has been locked out of corporate systems, making her the second outspoken critic at the company to...
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On January 19th, 2021 with 121 comments
Microsoft is joining GM, Honda and others in a $2 billion investment round in Cruise to help commercialize its self-driving cars. The deal bumps Cruise's...
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On January 16th, 2021 with 27 comments
"Behold the cakie: It has the crispiness of a cookie and the, well, 'cakiness' of a cake."
So says a triumphant blog post by Google Cloud's developer...
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On January 15th, 2021 with 31 comments
Facebook is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help doctors predict whether they will need more resources, such as extra oxygen to care for...
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On January 15th, 2021 with 25 comments
Amazon.com is offering other companies the ability to use the building blocks of the Alexa digital assistant for their own automated versions, the latest...
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On January 13th, 2021 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google researchers developed and benchmarked techniques they claim enabled them to train a language model...
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On January 6th, 2021 with 24 comments
The machine learning company OpenAI is developing models that improve computer vision and can produce original images from a text prompt. From a report: The...
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On December 23rd, 2020 with 51 comments
Alphabet's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 293 comments
In Huntsville, Alabama, there is a room with green walls and a green ceiling. Dangling down the center is a fishing line attached to a motor mounted to the...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 15 comments
Alphabet's Google waived a 1.1 billion-pound loan ($1.5 billion) to DeepMind in 2019 after the U.K.-based artificial intelligence lab continued to ramp up the...
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On December 16th, 2020 with 47 comments
On December 15, the United States Air Force successfully flew an AI copilot on a U-2 spy plane in California, marking the first time AI has controlled a U.S....
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On December 9th, 2020 with 83 comments
Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized Wednesday for the company's handling of the departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru and said he would investigate...
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On December 8th, 2020 with 11 comments
Google today launched an experimental app for Android that leverages AI to make communication more accessible for people with speech and motor impairments....
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On December 3rd, 2020 with 318 comments
Timnit Gebru, one of the best-known AI researchers today and co-lead of an AI ethics team at Google, said she was fired Wednesday for sending an email to...
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On November 27th, 2020 with 35 comments
Dyson will invest an additional 2.75bn pound ($3.67 billion) on developing technologies and products over the next five years [Editor's note: the link may be...
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On November 20th, 2020 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Last year, electric scooters were booming in big cities across the United States and other countries as urbanites embraced...
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