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Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us
With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human...
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A.I. Is Everywhere and Evolving
Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology...
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Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective...
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Why Is Facebook Rejecting These Fashion Ads?
The automated intelligence systems of Instagram and Facebook have repeatedly denied ads placed by small businesses...
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Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests
IBM researchers trained artificial intelligence to pick up hints of changes in language ahead of the...
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The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021
Spoiler: We’re looking at another year of internet services dominating many aspects of our lives.
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Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal
The researcher, one of the company’s best-known Black female employees, said she was fired last week.
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Google Researcher Timnit Gebru Says She Was Fired For Paper on AI Bias
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, had voiced exasperation over the...
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London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled...
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Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue).
The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and...
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When A.I. Falls in Love
The Times asked GPT-3 to tell us a little about itself and its romantic life.
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
They can’t detect all conflicts, but new computer programs serve as guard rails when scientists and...
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Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
It might be possible, physicists say, but not anytime soon. And there’s no guarantee that we...
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Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?
The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of...
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Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System
Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government...
