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Facebook’s robot coders step into the future of programming
Like a good junior programmer, Facebook’s AI is cutting its teeth with a bit of bug fixing.
Serious Fraud Office trialling AI for data-heavy cases
A new tool draws links between people under investigation: emails, who was cc’ed, and those quieter messages where nobody at all was cc’ed.
Google releases free AI tool to stamp out child sexual abuse material
The faster new images can be identified, the faster children can be rescued, Google said.
Deepfakes porn service: Don’t worry, we’ll only use “consenting adults”
“You,” or “footage that you swear is of a consenting adult,” though details on how that will be ascertained by Naughty America are sketchy.
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.
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.
Artist rigs up Google Assistant to (sometimes) fire a gun on command
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” But, what if a robot breaks the first law of robotics?
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.