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We Investigated Whether Digital Contact Tracing Actually Worked in the U.S.
A year ago, engineers built apps to track potential virus exposure. Our research shows the impact has been mixed—but there's still potential.
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Geoffrey Hinton Has a Hunch about What's Next for AI
A decade ago, the artificial-intelligence pioneer transformed the field with a major breakthrough. Now he's working on a new imaginary system named GLOM.
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How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation
The company's AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
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Google Says It's Too Easy for Hackers to Find New Security Flaws
Attackers are exploiting the same types of software vulnerabilities over and over again, because companies often miss the forest for the trees
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This Avocado Armchair Could Be the Future of AI
Researchers at artificial intelligence company OpenAI have engineered two deep learning models combining language and images to improve AI's understanding of text...
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AI Needs to Face Up to its Invisible-Worker Problem
Machine-learning models are trained by low-paid online gig workers. They're not going away—but we can change the way they work, says Saiph Savage.
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Tiny Four-Bit Computers Are Now All You Need to Train AI
IBM researchers have proposed reducing the number of computer bits from the current industry standard of 16 to just four.
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AI Needs to Face Up to its Invisible-worker Problem
Machine-learning models are trained by low-paid online gig workers. They're not going away—but we can change the way they work, says Saiph Savage.
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A Radical Technique Lets AI Learn with Practically No Data
Scientists at Canada's University of Waterloo suggest artificial intelligence models should be capable of “less than one”-shot learning.
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These Weird, Unsettling Photos Show That AI is Getting Smarter
Models are learning how to generate images from captions, a sign that they're getting better at understanding our world.
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Machines can Spot Mental Health Issues—If you Hand Over your Personal Data
Digital diagnosis could transform psychiatry by mining your most intimate data for clues. But is the privacy cost worth it?
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The Quest for Quantum-Proof Encryption Just Made a Leap Forward
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology says there are 15 contenders remaining in its competition to develop quantum-proof encryption, down from...
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Prepare to be Tracked and Tested as You Return to Work
Many reopening businesses will ask workers to take coronavirus tests, report symptoms, don masks, wear dongles, and work under the gaze of new sensors and cameras...
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Our Weird Behavior During the Pandemic is Messing With AI Models
Machine-learning models trained on normal behavior are showing cracks —forcing humans to step in to set them straight.
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COVID-19 has Blown Apart the Myth of Silicon Valley Innovation
The pandemic shows that the U.S. is no longer much good at coming up with technologies relevant to our most basic needs.
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Radio Corona, May 5: Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer and COVID-19 Survivor
In this episode of Radio Corona, Gideon Lichfield will discuss the future of our connected world with Vint Cerf, one of the people known as a "father of the internet...
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Doctors are Using AI to Triage COVID-19 patients. The Tools May Be Here to Stay
Faced with staff shortages and overwhelming patient loads, a growing number of hospitals are turning to automated tools to help them manage the pandemic.
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Why the Coronavirus Lockdown is Making the Internet Stronger Than Ever
Far from breaking it, the surge in usage the internet is seeing right now is driving a major upgrade.
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WhatsApp is Limiting Message Forwarding to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
From today, messages identified as "highly forwarded" can be forwarded to a single person, instead of five.
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