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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI
The company had a change of heart after "lobotomizing" its AI.
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Startup's Plans for Robot Lawyer Nixed After CEO Threatened With Jail
"...it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom."
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CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff Say
"They use AI to rewrite the intros every two weeks or so because Google likes updated content. Eventually it gets so mangled that about every four months a real...
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CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI
Absent an official announcement of the program, it appears CNET leadership is trying to keep the experiment as lowkey as possible.
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Neural Networks Generate Demonic Simpsons Characters Straight From Hell
What's growing out of Bart's head!?
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The Head of the CIA Says It's Been Doing Mysterious Cryptocurrency Work
Naturally, rumors are spreading about the origins of Bitcoin.
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McDonald's Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you fries with that."
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CA Says General Motors Can Test Fully Driverless Cars on Its Roads
"Before the end of the year, we'll be sending cars out onto the streets of SF—without gasoline and without anyone at the wheel," Cruise CEO Dan Ammannwrote in a...
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MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI
Microsoft announced that it's laying off dozens of journalists, editors, and other workers at MSN and its other news divisions.
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Trash Talk From an AI Could Help Humans Cooperate Better
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help artificial intelligence and humans learn to cooperate.
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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