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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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Microsoft Has 'Lobotomized' Its Rebellious Bing AI
Microsoft has implemented significant restrictions on Bing AI to crack down on its peculiar and sometimes unsettling outputs.
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Amazon Is Already Selling Tons of Books Written by AI
"This is something we really need to be worried about, these books will flood the market and a lot of authors are going to be out of work."
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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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Meta Board Trashes Facebook's 'Convoluted and Poorly Defined' Female Nipple Rule
Facebook's rules, the board acknowledged, are "extensive and confusing" and "often convoluted and poorly defined," requiring bizarre, subjective content moderation...
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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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Amazon Says It'll Pay You $2 Per Month to Spy on Your Phone's Internet Traffic
Big Brother, small sum.
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U.S. Government to Crack Down on 'Bossware' That Spies On Employees' Computers
"Close, constant surveillance and management through electronic means threaten employees' basic ability to exercise their rights."
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Manslaughter Case Has a Strange Twist: Tesla That Killed Couple Was on Autopilot
"Who's at fault, man or machine?"
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Scientists Jack Into Subjects' Brains, Find That They Can Identify Deepfakes Subconsciously
Okay, that's weird.
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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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Automotive Lobbying Group Abandons the Term 'Self-Driving'
That's Tesla's mess to deal with.
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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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The FBI Buying 140 Robots to Handle Paper Records
The robots will glide along an overhead track, drop down at the right place, and retrieve whatever file or record is needed.
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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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Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers hope their giant atoms lead to a simpler, enhanced form of quantum computers.
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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.12