Artificial Intelligence News
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People
Demis Hassabis
Cofounder of the AI startup DeepMind
Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO and former chairman of Y Combinator
Yann LeCun
Chief AI scientist at Facebook
Meng Wanzhou
The CFO of Huawei
Ctrl Shift Face
Deepfake video creator
Elon Musk
The CEO of Neuralink and Tesla
Fei-Fei Li
CS professor and ImageNet lead researcher
Zhang Yiming
The 36-year-old founder and CEO of ByteDance
Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO since 2014
Topics
AI and Personhood
From brain-machine interfaces to digital assistants and automation, AI's growing presence in everyday life may alter what it means to be human.
China's social credit system
China is building a system to give its citizens access to mortgages and car loans, and to punish those who break the rules.
The US blacklists a swath of Chinese AI companies and government bureaus
October 9th
How the US sanctions and isolates companies and governments: the Entity List
October 8th
China extends its social credit system to businesses
October 2nd
China's social credit system: Orwellian nightmare or a modern take on credit?
October 2nd
Media and Political Disinformation
This section focuses on the ways in which groups use and exploit advanced technologies to manipulate users.
The vast majority of deepfake videos aren't political, they're pornographic
October 8th
Watch a deepfake showing Al Pacino replace Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
October 4th
The company behind the fake Joe Rogan voice recording releases a tool to detect audio deep fakes
October 1st
Elon Musk tweets that AI may soon be used to "manipulate social media"
September 28th
Facebook and Microsoft announce a contest to detect professionally created deepfakes
September 11th
AI in movies, TV, and pop culture
From predictive science fiction to deepfakes, AI has permeated entertainment, social media and our imaginations.
Microsoft's artist-in-residence creates a two-story structure "where architecture and artificial intelligence merge"
October 13th
The vast majority of deepfake videos aren't political, they're pornographic
October 8th
Watch a deepfake showing Al Pacino replace Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
October 4th
The company behind the fake Joe Rogan voice recording releases a tool to detect audio deep fakes
October 1st
Games
If you want to see where human-machine competition is fiercest, look to games. Complex, rules-based games present the ideal environment to train AI systems, where the industry's top startups compete against the world's best players.
OpenAI taught its robot to solve a rubik's cube one-handed
October 17th
AI bots learn to use tools while playing hide-and-seek
September 20th
A student turned the world's best AI bot into a choose your own adventure game
September 16th
The OpenAI Five: video game bots that beat the world's best Dota 2 players
July 24th
Reinforcement learning: how computers learn from experience
July 24th
Surveillance and Privacy
Following the debate and consequence of technology's bargain with consumers: convenience and safety in exchange for unprecedented access to our personal lives.
