“AIs have gotten better at holding a conversation, but tech firms are wary of rolling them out for fear of PR nightmares. AIs have gotten better at holding a conversation, but tech firms are wary of rolling them out for fear of PR nightmares.”
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“There’s a scene in William Gibson’s 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence — a garment which renders him invisible to CCTV.”
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“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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“It’s a good time to be a machine learning startup. Two weeks after Twitter bought London-based Magic Pony, Google has purchased French firm Moodstocks. The acquisition was made for an unknown sum, and seems primarily a grab for talent.”
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“This is the world according to AI Scry, a new iOS app that uses a neural network to identify whatever’s in front of your phone’s camera and describe it to you.”
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