“There’s a saying in the mushroom-picking community that all mushrooms are edible but some mushrooms are only edible once. That’s why, when news spread on Twitter of an app that used “revolutionary AI” to identify mushrooms with a single picture, mycologists and fungi-foragers were worried.”
Read: A ‘potentially deadly’ mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI
“An aspect of artificial intelligence that’s sometimes overlooked is just how good it is at creating fake audio and video that’s difficult to distinguish from reality. The advent of Photoshop got us doubting our eyes, but what happens when we can’t rely on our other senses?”
Read: New AI research makes it easier to create fake footage of someone speaking
“Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.”
“Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media.”
“Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media.”
“To understand how image recognition algorithms “see,” companies like Google can force their software to create images based on their training, rather than simply sort them. It’s the same technique that gave us these bizarre images of dogs created by Google’s artificial neural network Deep Dream.”
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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
“Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes that artificial intelligence should just be infused through software and cloud services in a way that customers barely notice. Enter Salesforce’s big “Einstein” initiative.”
“Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes that artificial intelligence should just be infused through software and cloud services in a way that customers barely notice. Enter Salesforce’s big “Einstein” initiative.”
“Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that looks for robots that could one day work in the company’s warehouses. It’s basically American Idol, but for robotic arms that can grab items off a shelf and put them back again.”
Read: Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves