Instagram’s algorithm pushes users towards COVID-19 misinformation, study finds

Instagram’s algorithm pushes users towards COVID-19 misinformation, study finds

Instagram‘s algorithm is recommending COVID-19 and anti-vaccination misinformation to potentially mi...

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Here’s why we should never trust AI to identify our emotions

Here’s why we should never trust AI to identify our emotions

Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intellige...

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Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

Google’s surveillance-based business model has attracted another prominent opponent.After surviving...

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Here’s how OpenAI’s magical DALL-E image generator works

Here’s how OpenAI’s magical DALL-E image generator works

It seems like every few months, someone publishes a machine learning paper or demo that makes my jaw...

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Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms

Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms

Everyone’s always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vaca...

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This app is helping reunite dogs with their owners using AI

This app is helping reunite dogs with their owners using AI

It’s hard to imagine the stress that pet owners go through when their furry friends go missing . A U...

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Scientists want to call Pluto a planet again — along with 150 other nearby space rocks

Scientists want to call Pluto a planet again — along with 150 other nearby space rocks

A team of scientists in the US is calling for the return of Pluto‘s planetary status. For everyone w...

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Inside the world’s first AI-powered satellite — and its fight against clouds

Inside the world’s first AI-powered satellite — and its fight against clouds

On September 2 in French Guiana, an AI satellite was launched into the Earth’s orbit for the first t...

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Why people should get paid to let AI do their jobs for them

Why people should get paid to let AI do their jobs for them

The idea of a universal minimum/basic income (UBI) isn’t new or nearly as radical as those both in f...

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Apple snaps up ex-Google AI leader who quit in the wake of Timnit Gebru’s firing

Apple snaps up ex-Google AI leader who quit in the wake of Timnit Gebru’s firing

Apple has hired former Google AI scientist Samy Bengio, who resigned from the Big G following the controv...

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The future of scientific research is quantum

The future of scientific research is quantum

Over the past few years, the capabilities of quantum computers have reached the stage where they can...

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Physicists suggest there’s an ‘anti-universe’ behind ours

Physicists suggest there’s an ‘anti-universe’ behind ours

A team of scientists from University of Waterloo have come up with an exciting new theory that explains...

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Microsoft looks poised to dominate the quantum computing industry

Microsoft looks poised to dominate the quantum computing industry

Microsoft Azure recently announced that its quantum computing research teams had invented “a new kin...

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New Amazon robots could enable ‘safer’ exploitation of warehouse staff

New Amazon robots could enable ‘safer’ exploitation of warehouse staff

Weeks after a study revealed that Amazon warehouse workers are injured at higher rates than staff at...

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Researchers say this combo of old-school invisible ink and AI is ‘uncrackable’

Researchers say this combo of old-school invisible ink and AI is ‘uncrackable’

A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a system by which...

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The Trevor Project enlists Google’s AI to help combat the LGBTQ suicide crisis

The Trevor Project enlists Google’s AI to help combat the LGBTQ suicide crisis

LGBTQPIA+ youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide.In 1998 The Trevor Project became the...

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Researchers developed ‘explainable’ AI to help diagnose and treat at-risk children

Researchers developed ‘explainable’ AI to help diagnose and treat at-risk children

A pair of researchers from the Oak Ridge Laboratory have developed an “explainable” AI system design...

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How an old smartphone processor will power the first-ever flight on Mars

How an old smartphone processor will power the first-ever flight on Mars

If you’ve got a new Android phone, its processor is probably more advanced than the one that will co...

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How an AI brain with only one neuron could surpass humans

How an AI brain with only one neuron could surpass humans

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Technische Universität Berlin recently created a neura...

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Hey, space nerd! Here’s what Mars sounds like

Hey, space nerd! Here’s what Mars sounds like

We’ve long known what Mars looks like, but the Perseverance rover is finally teaching us how it soun...

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