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AI Misinformation: Why It Works and How to Spot It
Determining what's real online is getting more difficult. But there are steps you can take to deal with it.
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Meta Will Let You Use AI Chatbots With Personalities, Report Says
Want to chat with Abraham Lincoln? Facebook owner Meta is an artificial intelligence leader, but rivals with advanced chatbots already are abundant.
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Meet DuckAssist, DuckDuckGo's New AI Feature
DuckAssist isn't a chatbot, but it uses artificial intelligence to help answer your questions.
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AI Flew a Fighter Jet for 17 Hours
This marked the first time a bot took control of a military jet.
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Computing Guru Criticizes ChatGPT AI Tech for Making Things Up
Vint Cerf, who helped create the Internet's core network technology, hopes engineers can improve artificial intelligence's shortcoming.
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AI as Co-Pilot: Your Online Life Is About to Change, Like It or Not
Microsoft has Bing powered by the tech behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google has Bard, and many more are on the way.
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Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Bing, a New Challenge to Google Search
Microsoft is building AI technology based on the same foundation as ChatGPT into search, Edge, Office, and other products.
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Google Unveils Bard, Its ChatGPT Rival for AI-Powered Conversation
With a Microsoft event expected to center on ChatGPT expected today, the AI chatbot war is heating up.
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Toyota Gives Robots a Soft Touch, Better Vision
Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute have developed a soft touch sensing gripper that helps robots determine the right amount of force to grip and help...
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William Shatner Turns 90, AI Version of Him will Live On Indefinitely
Shatner partners with StoryFile to create an interactive version of himself that answers fan questions and talks back to them.
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Autonomous Racing Is Coming to Indianapolis With the Indy Autonomous Challenge
The Indy Autonomous Challenge, announced during the 2021 CES show, will be a spec race with mechanically identical cars, and software that each team hopes will...
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Scientists Count Elephants From Space with Satellites, Computer Smarts
Scientists in the U.K. have developed a technique for counting African elephant populations using satellite camera imagery and a deep learning algorithm.
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Face Masks are Thwarting Even the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms, Study Finds
Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Scence and Technology found that face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail as much as 50% of...
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NASA Created a Game That Lets You Help Map the Ocean's Coral Reefs
A new game can help map the ocean's diversity of coral reefs.
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Coronavirus Highlights Strengths of Self-Driving Delivery Vehicles
With quarantines across China, one company is showing the usefulness of autonomous vehicles.
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Roomba Mistaken For a Burglar by Spooked Homeowners
Police called to investigate possible home intruders found a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.
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Nvidia Developing an 'Autonomous Car Driver's License' Based on Its Tech
Nvidia it is working with German standards body TÜV SÜD to develop a kind of driver's license for self-driving cars.
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Deepfakes Are a Threat to National Security, Say Lawmakers
Deepfakes are a deep concern for Congress.
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Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google's AI Battle Over Your Social Lives
When you sign up for Facebook on your phone, the app isn't just giving you the latest updates and photos from your friends and family.
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