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Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text
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Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text

How can you tell when you’re reading machine-generated text? Three recent papers proposed solutions: Watermarking, classification, and a statistical method.

April 12, 20233 min read
Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text
Fake Detection

Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text

How can you tell when you’re reading machine-generated text? Three recent papers proposed solutions: Watermarking, classification, and a statistical method.

April 12, 20233 min read
Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.
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Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.

Robocalls slip through smartphone spam filters, but a new generation of deep learning tools promises to tighten the net. Research proposed fresh approaches to thwarting robocalls. Such innovations soon could be deployed in apps.

February 23, 20222 min read
Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.
Fake Detection

Scam Definitely: AI tools to block spam phone calls.

Robocalls slip through smartphone spam filters, but a new generation of deep learning tools promises to tighten the net. Research proposed fresh approaches to thwarting robocalls. Such innovations soon could be deployed in apps.

February 23, 20222 min read
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
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Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.

DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.

December 15, 20212 min read
Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.
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Large Language Models Shrink: Gopher and RETRO prove lean language models can push boundaries.

DeepMind released three papers that push the boundaries — and examine the issues — of large language models.

December 15, 20212 min read
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
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Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes
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Fighting Fakes: Six algorithms that help news sites spot deepfakes

A supergroup of machine learning models flags manipulated photos. Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Alphabet, released a system that detects digitally altered images.

February 12, 20211 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
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The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
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The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies
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YouTube vs. Conspiracy Theorists: How YouTube uses AI to spot conspiracies

Facing a tsunami of user-generated disinformation, YouTube is scrambling to stop its recommendation algorithm from promoting videos that spread potentially dangerous falsehoods.

September 23, 20202 min read
Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.
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Planet Hunter: AI identifies planets from Kepler telescope data.

A machine learning model is scouring the cosmos for undiscovered planets. Astronomers from the University of Warwick developed a system that learned to identify faraway worlds in a dataset of thousands of candidates.

September 9, 20202 min read

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