Third-party skills and smart speaker incarnations also discontinued
Microsoft’s decided to restrict the roles its AI assistant Cortana is permitted to fill.…
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Microsoft’s decided to restrict the roles its AI assistant Cortana is permitted to fill.…
In brief Rite Aid, an American drugstore chain, secretly deployed facial recognition cameras to spy on its shoppers across 200 stores for eight years.…
Astronomers have spied a tiny galaxy with the lowest oxygen levels yet observed, a discovery made possible thanks to a machine-learning algorithm.…
The creators of a controversial tool that attempted to use AI to predict people’s gender from their internet handle or email address have shut down their service after a huge backlash.…
Face masks worn to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus typically decrease the accuracy of commercial facial recognition algorithms by up to 50 per cent, according to an investigation by America’s technical standards watchdog, NIST.…
New Zealand has created what it claims is the world’s first “Algorithm Charter” that sets out how government agencies should devise algorithms and explain their workings.…
In brief An infosec biz has shared an audio clip of what may be a software-generated voicemail message, designed to impersonate a CEO to trick a company employee into unwittingly committing fraud.…
Amazon claims it reviews the software created by third-party developers for its Alexa voice assistant platform, yet US academics were able to create more than 200 policy-violating Alexa Skills and get them certified.…
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Sand Lab have developed a technique for tweaking photos of people so that they sabotage facial-recognition systems.…
America’s financial watchdog has taken a Silicon Valley AI startup and its CEO to court for allegedly swindling $11m from investors by forging fake bank statements to lie about its revenues.…
The World Health Organisation’s Facebook Messenger chatbot refuses to break out the latest numbers of COVID-19 cornavirus cases and deaths for Taiwan and Hong Kong.…
In brief A judge in Munich has ruled in favor of banning Tesla Germany from repeating misleading descriptions of its Autopilot software in adverts.…
On the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, MIT boffins have given an insight into an alternative history, one where US president Richard Nixon paid tribute to the astronauts who would not be returning from the Moon.…
Video British AI chipmaker Graphcore has announced a new series of hardware products based on its latest second-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) known as the Colossus Mk2 GC200.…
Did you know if you upload pictures, text, audio, code, and other content to some Amazon Web Services’ AI systems for processing, the internet giant may quietly keep your data to retrain and improve its current and future technology?…
Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its customer-service phone calls and chatbot conversations.…
In brief A man was charged after he was mistakenly identified as a thief by facial-recognition software used by the Detroit Police Department.…
Microsoft has kicked a five-year-old out onto the cold, hard Chinese streets by spinning off its Xiaobing (or Xiaoice) business.…
Following Canada’s lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia today launched a joint investigation into how Clearview AI harvests and uses billions of images it scraped from the internet to train its facial-recognition algorithms.…
Despite all those protests, internal and external, by tech workers against their employers’ selling AI to the US military, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JIAC) this week said the biggest names in IT are lining up to supply Uncle Sam.…
Brilliant article on the data behind this too
Plus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research
In brief Cops in Detroit have admitted using facial-recognition technology that fails to accurately identify potential suspects a whopping 96 per cent of the time.…
Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms.…
CodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud
Amazon has made its machine-learning-tools that automatically review and profile code, so you can find out where bottlenecks are and how it’s going to cost you in the AWS cloud, generally available.
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Researchers used a pre-trained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia
A new computer vision technique that helps convert blurry photos of people into fake, realistic images has come under fire for being racially biased towards white people
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Another machine-learning model that can’t tell people of color apart? Shocker
The American Civil Liberties Union has formally complained to Detroit police, who wrongfully arrested and locked up a dad after he was misidentified as a thief by facial-recognition software and a security guard