Facebook’s New AI Teaches Itself to See With Less Human Help
Most artificial intelligence is still built on a foundation of human toil. Peer inside an AI algorithm and you’ll find
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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Is Now Armed—in the Name of Art
In Spot’s Rampage, the robot roams an art gallery with a paintball gun. Boston Dynamics has racked up hundreds of
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Opinion | The Promise and Peril of Facial Recognition
Federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies are using facial-recognition technology to identify the members of the mob that assaulted the
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Opinion: Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI
This year has held many things, among them bold claims of artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Industry commentators speculated that the language-generation
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Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher’s Firing
Earlier this year, Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru sent a Twitter message to University of Washington professor Emily Bender.
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Opinion | Software Ate the World, and Soon It Will Write Itself
‘Software is eating the world,” tech investor Marc Andreessenobserved in these pages in 2011. Now software is writing itself. Mr.
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