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Your Google phone will soon screen nuisance calls
Google is reportedly adding a new feature to its phone app that will breathe a sigh of relief to beleaguered phone users everywhere: Built-in screening for nuisance callers.
Google: We won’t cause “overall harm” with our AI
After the Project Maven-inspired employee revolt, Google has released a set of AI principles and said it’s withdrawing from the contract.
Norman the AI bot reads Reddit, becomes “psychopath”
You say tomato. I say tomahto. “Norman” would likely see a traffic fatality splattered on the asphalt.
Blocking facial recognition surveillance using AI
If AI is increasingly able to recognise and classify faces, then the only way to counter this creeping surveillance is to use another AI to defeat it. Thanks to the University of Toronto, this may soon be possible.
Is Google’s Duplex AI helpful or plain creepy?
Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s annual I/O event to demo an experimental new feature of Google Assistant: Duplex.
Thousands of Google employees call for company to cancel Pentagon work
Google’s helping the Pentagon to build AI for drones, and a vocal group of employees have asked the company to drop the project.
Jaywalkers to be named, shamed and fined thanks to facial recognition
Thanks, no thanks, facial recognition and artificial intelligence mashup.
Amazon sues over 1000 people for posting fake reviews
Amazon is suing more than a thousand people it says have left fake reviews on the e-commerce website, saying fake reviews tarnish its reputation with customers.
A sassy chatbot named Rose just won a big test of artificial intelligence
Rose is a 31-year-old security analyst and hacker from San Francisco, a self-described computer nerd with “quirky attitudes.” She’s also a bot, but she could be on her way to convincing you that she is human. 