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News Articles: Artificial intelligence

An image created by DALL-E2 with the prompt: "Photograph of a young boy and his Golden Retriever in the woods of Montana on a foggy day."

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  • Technology

Surreal or too real? Breathtaking AI tool DALL-E takes its images to a bigger stage

The lab behind the artificial intelligence art tool is giving access to up to a million people on its waiting list, just as worries grow about possible abuse.

July 20, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
An image of babies doing parkour generated by DALL-E mini.

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  • Technology

When machine learning meets surrealist art meets Reddit, you get DALL-E mini

DALL-E is the AI image generator social media users are employing to crank out bizarre art memes that range from beautiful to horrifying.

July 05, 2022
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By:
  • Kai McNamee
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021. Wyden says he has long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state's child welfare system.

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  • National

Oregon is dropping an artificial intelligence tool used in child welfare system

Officials will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a process that officials say will make more racially equitable decisions.

June 02, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke speaks at a news conference on Aug. 5, 2021. The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor their productivity can unfairly discriminate against people with disabilities.

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  • Technology

U.S. warns of discrimination in using artificial intelligence to screen job candidates

The federal government tells employers that the commonly used hiring tools could violate civil rights laws by discriminating against people with disabilities.

May 12, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Some of the likely AI-generated faces from fake LinkedIn profiles identified by Stanford University researchers. The central positioning of the eyes is a telltale sign of a computer-created face.

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  • Technology

That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake

Stanford researchers uncovered more than 1,000 of these LinkedIn profiles. A technology that has been used to promote misinformation online has now entered the corporate world.

March 27, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond

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  • Technology

Here's how Americans view facial recognition and driverless cars

The most strongly opposed applications of artificial intelligence focused on computer chip brain implants and driverless cars.

March 18, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The "Proximity Dress" which expands to reinforce social distancing when someone gets too close.

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  • Art & Design

Fashion and Tech Join Forces To Create A Dress That Signals When People Get Too Close

Dutch fashion designer and engineer Anouk Wipprecht distinctive 'fashion tech' designs combine couture, interactive technology and artificial intelligence.

August 05, 2021
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By:
  • Kelley Dickens
UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang says a system that lets a man express his thoughts at 15 words a minute is just the beginning for computer-mediated communication.

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  • Health

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

A stroke left a man paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.

July 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Sierra Leone's minister of education and chief innovation officer David Moinina Sengeh is a man of many talents. He's using mobile phone technology to improve daily life, he invented a way to make a prosthetic limb with a computer-assisted technique and he's a singer and rapper and a clothing designer, too.

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  • Global Health

This Education Minister Is A Renaissance Man (And He's Got A Music Video To Prove It)

Sierra Leone's education minister and MIT graduate David Moinina Sengeh is shooting for the moon when it comes to his country's future, from schools to health-care to ... space travel.

July 10, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
A Kargu rotary-wing attack drone loitering munition system manufactured by the STM defense company of Turkey. A U.N. report says the weapons system was used in Libya in March 2020.

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  • World

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says

Autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. The U.N. says such a drone was in the air in March 2020.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Facebook's content moderators say the company is putting their health at risk by pressuring them to return to the office.

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  • Technology

'Without Our Work, Facebook Is Unusable': Content Moderators Demand Safer Offices

The social network largely outsources its content review jobs. Workers say they are now under pressure to return to the office despite the pandemic.

November 19, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
"The fact is, these algorithms are learning from us, and we're not perfect," says Dr. Ayanna Howard, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

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  • Technology

How Artificial Intelligence Reflects Human Biases - And How It Can Improve

Whether you're searching something on Google, assessing a mortgage rate, or applying for a job, much of our lives today is informed by artificial...

January 14, 2020
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By:
  • Emilia Brock and
  • Virginia Prescott
Malcolm Gladwell speaks to On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott about newest book, "Talking to Strangers."

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  • Author Interviews

In 'Talking To Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell Explores How We Misread People We Don't Know

Revisionist History podcast host Malcolm Gladwell's books have opened up new ways to consider human behavior — introducing concepts like "stickiness,"...

October 24, 2019
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • La'Raven Taylor ,
  • and 1 more
John P. Imlay Junior Dean Charles Isbell joins GPB's On Second Thought.

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  • Technology

Less Like HAL, More Like Help: Artificial Intelligence Applications In The Real World

Artificial intelligence is changing technology and is already shaping the world we live in, from using Siri and Alexa to choosing the best route home...

August 13, 2019
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By:
  • Pria Mahadevan and
  • Virginia Prescott

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  • Education

On Second Thought For Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019

Atlanta magazine calculates students who graduate from some of Georgia’s largest schools end up with an average of $27,000 in debt. Before it’s time to...

August 13, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • and 6 more
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