Facial analysis AI in job interviews will reinforce bias
Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US company HireVue, analyses the language and tone...
Deepfake face-swapping app ZAO shows uploading your photos is riskier than ever
The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence to replace the faces of characters in film or...
How AI could make your car as smart as a human passenger
Driving long distances without a passenger can be lonely. If you’ve ever done it, you might have wished for a companion to talk to...
Artificial intelligence is in danger of becoming too male, says a new study
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying tumours in medical scans better than human radiologists, and increasing...
Hype and hysteria around AI could set it back by decades
Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI...
People who spread deepfakes believe their lies contain deeper truths
The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO,...
When will voice assistants understand what we are saying? Probably quite long.
Imagine a world in which Siri always understands you, Google Translate works perfectly, and the two of them create something akin to a Doctor...
A self-taught AI is beating humans in a multiplayer game for the first time
Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of...
Gamers are using machine learning to navigate complex video games
Some of the world’s most popular video games track your activity as you play – but they’re not just gathering data for business or...
An AI has spontaneously developed a human-like number sense
Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill,...
