Inside the rapidly escalating war between deepfakes and deepfake detectors
Deepfakes are getting better, and as they become increasingly convincing, the pressure is on for deepfake detection technologies to keep up
The BigSleep A.I. is like Google Image Search for pictures that don’t exist yet
Feed the BigSleep A.I. any text-based prompt — no matter how abstract or strange — and it will generate an image to fit the description.
The future of augmented reality is earbuds, not eyeglasses
Earbuds are transforming into a whole new computing platform that could one day replace the need for you to reach for your smartphone or computer.
A disembodied robot mouth and 14 other stories that made us laugh in 2020
Forget the challenges of the last 12 months and instead have some fun reading our pick of the quirkiest tech stories from the past year.
Boston Dynamics robots (and a robot dog) break it down on the dance floor
[embedded content] Creepy or cool? We’ll let you decide after watching Boston Dynamics’ latest video featuring several of its robots, and their dance moves. Set to the Contours’ Do You…
Google fired a prominent AI ethicist, and her former colleagues are up in arms
Google just can’t help alienating large swaths of its employee base. More than 1,530 (and counting) Google employees have signed an open letter decrying the company’s summary firing of the…
Douglas, the latest step toward realistic AI, is unsettling
There’s something off about Douglas. He’s touted by his creators as the “most realistic real-time autonomous digital human in the world.” If that’s true, then I don’t think the best…
This basic human skill is the next major milestone for A.I.
CausalWorld is a virtual world that lets robots learn about cause and effect. Here’s why that has big implications for the future of A.I.
This interactive VR ‘film’ lets you play god to an evolving artificial intelligence
If you could play god to an emerging artificial intelligence, would you? Or better: Should you? That’s the moral dilemma at the heart of Agence, an interactive “dynamic film” that…
YouTube puts human content moderators back to work
The humans are tagging in. YouTube is re-assigning the work of content moderation to more actual humans, Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, told the Financial Times. At the start…