Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.
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Your Words, Their Voices: How game makers and marketers are cloning voices using AI.

Voice clones — the audio counterpart to deepfaked images — are poised to invade popular media and entertainment. Professionals and amateurs alike are using AI to emulate the voices of human actors, Wired reported.

March 17, 20212 min read
Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
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Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.

Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.

March 10, 20211 min read
Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.
Tech & Society

Make Your Ancestors Smile: AI tool from MyAncestry animates old photos.

Machine learning is bringing old photos to life. A new service from genealogy company MyHeritage lets users animate their ancestors’ portraits, making them smile, blink, and turn their heads.

March 10, 20211 min read
Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.
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Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.

Drone startups are taking aim at military customers. As large tech companies have backed away from defense work, startups like Anduril, Shield AI, and Teal are picking up the slack. They’re developing autonomous fliers specifically for military operations.

March 10, 20212 min read
Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.
Tech & Society

Drones For Defense: How companies like Anduril are developing military drones.

Drone startups are taking aim at military customers. As large tech companies have backed away from defense work, startups like Anduril, Shield AI, and Teal are picking up the slack. They’re developing autonomous fliers specifically for military operations.

March 10, 20212 min read
Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.
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Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.

Having dismissed two key researchers, Google restructured its efforts in AI ethics. Marian Croak, an accomplished software engineer and vice president of engineering at Google, will lead a new center of expertise in responsible AI, the company announced.

March 3, 20212 min read
Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.
Tech & Society

Google Overhauls Ethical AI Team: What Google is doing after Timnit Gebru's departure.

Having dismissed two key researchers, Google restructured its efforts in AI ethics. Marian Croak, an accomplished software engineer and vice president of engineering at Google, will lead a new center of expertise in responsible AI, the company announced.

March 3, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
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Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

February 24, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
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Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
Tech & Society

Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.
Tech & Society

Cutting Corners to Recognize Faces: Research finds flaws in face recognition datasets.

Datasets for training face recognition models have ballooned in size — while slipping in quality and respect for privacy. In a survey of 130 datasets compiled over the last four decades, researchers traced how the need for increasing quantities of data led researchers to relax their standards.

February 24, 20212 min read
Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.
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Computation as a National Resource: An effort to estimate computing capacity for 37 nations.

How much processing power do various nations have on hand to drive their AI strategy? An international trade group aims to find out. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is launching an effort to measure the computing capacity available in countries around the world.

February 17, 20211 min read
Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.
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Autonomous Weapons Gain Support: A panel led by Eric Schmidt encouraged more military AI.

A panel of AI experts appointed by the U.S. government came out against a ban on autonomous weapons. A draft report from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommends against a proposed international global prohibition of AI-enabled autonomous weapon systems.

February 17, 20211 min read

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