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Artificial Intelligence

  1. on with kara swisher
    Reid Hoffman on Why We Should All Want AI to Be Our Co-pilotThe LinkedIn co-founder makes his best case for several new AI-based technologies and explains how he thinks they will change our lives.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  2. screen time
    The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has ArrivedIt’ll write your emails for you and read them, too. What could go wrong?
    By John Herrman
  3. artificial intelligence
    You Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  4. on with kara swisher
    Trae Stephens on the Ethics of AI WarfareKara Swisher talks to the Anduril co-founder about autonomous weapons, the innovation lag in the defense sector, and tech as deterrence.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  5. screen time
    Why Bing Is Being CreepyIt’s doing what it was trained to do by reading our stories and absorbing our anxieties. (Not that Microsoft is happy about it.)
    By John Herrman
  6. screen time
    Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems?This new era of search is a story about automation. But it’s also a story about corporate choices.
    By John Herrman
  7. artificial intelligence
    Fear Not, Conservatives, the Chatbot Won’t Turn Your Kid WokeThe American right’s problem isn’t that a talking robot is propagating liberal ideology.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. artificial intelligence
    AI Journalist Plagiarized More Than a High-School StudentSometimes robots commit very human errors.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
    By John Herrman
  10. screen time
    The Machine Will Speak With You NowDALL-E’s fun, impressive, and somewhat unsettling chatbot sibling is open to the public.
    By John Herrman
  11. screen time
    Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking FutureHe charmed his fans with visions of Mars and cool cars. But an “everything app” just sounds like a nightmare.
    By John Herrman
  12. screen time
    AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already DifferentWork, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
    By John Herrman
  13. the future
    Will DALL-E the AI Artist Take My Job?I was unnerved by how well DALL-E 2 mimics a human photo editor, turning text into original artwork. So I put my AI competition to the test.
    By Megan Paetzhold
  14. the future issue
    In 2029, AI Will Make Prejudice Much WorseIf you think structural bias is bad now, just wait until the machines take over.
    By Lisa Miller
  15. just asking questions
    ‘Any Further Interference Is Likely to Be Disastrous’“Gaia theory” scientist James Lovelock talks about nuclear power and his hope that AI might save the planet from catastrophic warming.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  16. man of the people
    Peter Thiel Makes a Nakedly Political Play in the New York TimesThiel rails against the Silicon Valley bubble as if he’s somehow not emblematic of it.
    By Brian Feldman
  17. bias
    Siri, Are Feminine AI Voices Sexist?The leading tech companies all offer feminized assistants that perpetuate gender stereotypes.
    By Brian Feldman
  18. decisions
    How the Roomba Company Decided to Stop Making Bots for the MilitaryCEO Colin Angle explains why iRobot divested itself of its work for the defense industry.
    As told to Jake Swearingen
  19. artificial intelligence
    Should This Chinese AI Bot Replace All News Anchors?A hard question with no easy answers.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Facebook Researchers Use Powerful AI to Fix Blinking in PhotosUsing powerful algorithms to solve our most frustrating global issues.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Will Continue Defense Work, But Not on ‘Technologies That Cause Harm’The company won’t use AI to violate human rights, which is the least we can ask.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Duplex Makes Your Life Easier by Making It More Difficult for OthersA system designed to mask interacting with a computer should be scrutinized, not celebrated.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Apple Decides It’s Serious About AI NowThe Cupertino company poached one of Google’s most prominent executives.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Google Says It Can Now Predict Flight Delays Before Airlines ThemselvesThanks to a bunch of historical data and machine learning.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Janelle Shane’s Neural Network Keeps Producing Hilarious, Terrifying CreationsTime for a nice, warm bowl of Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas.
    By Brian Feldman
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    A School Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Make Sure Students FocusUsing artificial intelligence to figure out who is daydreaming in class.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    This New AI Tool Makes Great Art. It Could Also Make Great Fake News.Pix2pix, a new image-generating neural network, is a stunning demonstration of the potential for AI to create fake news and weird-looking cats.
    By Greg Noone
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    Apple, Breaking Years of Secrecy, Jumps Into AI ConsortiumApple, lagging badly behind its competitors in artificial intelligence, decides to join them.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Two Google Homes Are Arguing About Whether They’re Human Right NowThey love each other and one of them thinks it’s human.
    By Brian Feldman
  30. Google Wants to Learn How You Speak. What Then?It doesn’t want to help you; it wants to become you.
    By Brian Feldman
  31. The Future of Tech Is Artificial Intelligence and That’s Just Fine for GoogleGoogle might not be flashy, but it does one thing exceptionally well — and that thing’s the future of technology.
    By Brian Feldman
  32. Facebook Is Working on Go-Playing AI That Google Already DevelopedThe intelligence is artificial but the shade is real.
    By Brian Feldman
  33. feature
    What Happens When Watson the Jeopardy! Robot Grows Up?It was just 4 years old when it beat the show’s best human contestants. As it goes out into the world, how afraid of it should we be?
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  34. this! is! kind of scary!
    In Which We Confused a Robot for a HumanIt. Looks. So. Real.
    By Nitasha Tiku