“For years, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook have provided data to a company marketing social media surveillance tools to police, according to a newly published investigation by the ACLU of Northern California.”
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“Back in 2013, a handful of researchers at Google set loose a neural network on a corpus of three million words taken from Google News texts. The neural net’s goal was to look for patterns in the way words appear next to each other.”
Read: Neural networks are inadvertently learning our language’s hidden gender biases
“Next week, 2K Games and Hangar 13 are set to release Mafia III, an open-world action game set in a fictionalized version of 1968 New Orleans called New Bordeaux. It follows Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam veteran who was betrayed by the Italian Mafia, and now seeks revenge.”
Read: How ‘Mafia III’ Intends to Make Players Confront Racism
“Artificial intelligence has already been used to create a short film, snippets of angst-ridden poetry, and even the odd avant-garde melody. But the YouTube video above might just be the first pop song written by AI — and it’s almost certainly (probably) a dire warning for humanity.”
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“Google’s self-driving cars might yield the road to emergency vehicles, like police cars, automatically. A new U.S. patent shows sensors inside the car recognizing police lights, red and blue, and moving to the side of the road before the emergency vehicle passes.”
Read: Google’s car will automatically pull you over for the police
“How will artificial intelligence systems change the way we live? This is a tough question: on one hand, AI tools are producing compelling advances in complex tasks, with dramatic improvements in energy consumption, audio processing, and leukemia detection.”
“Beauty pageants have always been political.”
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“Beauty pageants have always been political.”
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“Times Square in August is unlikely to make any New York City resident’s must-visit list.”
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“Times Square in August is unlikely to make any New York City resident’s must-visit list.”
Read: Ghostbusting Finally Got Me to Believe in the Power of VR