How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
Lauren Goode: From what I know about Meredith, she’s well qualified to have this conversation. She spent a lot of time at Google, which is a place that relies very...
After Amazon, an ambition to accelerate American manufacturing
After more than two decades as part of Amazon’s core leadership team, Jeff Wilke helped transform the way people buy almost everything. His next act is no less ambitious: proving...
LayerNAS: Neural architecture search in polynomial complexity
Posted by Yicheng Fan and Dana Alon, Software Engineers, Google Research Every byte and every operation matters when trying to build a faster model, especially if the model is to...
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2023
Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a pioneer...
I was a victim of ‘pig butchering’ — I got scammed out of $450K
Step aside, Tinder Swindler — meet the latest Hinge Cringe. A 37-year-old tech executive from Philadelphia claims she fell for an online romance scam known as “pig butchering” — a...
Google I/O 2023: Google Adds Generative AI to Search
Six months ago, Google didn’t appear remotely worried about its search business. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unleashed, and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot. At Google’s annual I/O conference today, the search giant...
Training machines to learn more like humans do
Imagine sitting on a park bench, watching someone stroll by. While the scene may constantly change as the person walks, the human brain can transform that dynamic visual information into...
Robust and efficient medical imaging with self-supervision
Posted by Shekoofeh Azizi, Senior Research Scientist, and Laura Culp, Senior Research Engineer, Google Research Despite recent progress in the field of medical artificial intelligence (AI), most existing models are...
May
14
2023
Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a pioneer...
Passenger planes could have AI pilots: airline president
This is your AI-generated pilot speaking. Tim Clark, president of the airline Emirates, believes artificial intelligence could replace real-life pilots in passenger airplanes — but not in his lifetime. “You might...
Google Is Racing to Bring More AI to Android
In the days leading up to its annual software conference, Google executives were unusually excited about … wallpaper. Phone wallpaper. Wallpaper that changes and breathes and undulates on Android phones,...
Using reflections to see the world from new points of view
As a car travels along a narrow city street, reflections off the glossy paint or side mirrors of parked vehicles can help the driver glimpse things that would otherwise be...
An ML-based approach to better characterize lung diseases
Posted by Babak Behsaz, Software Engineer, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Genomics The combination of the environment an individual experiences and their genetic predispositions determines the majority of their risk...
We need to bring consent to AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This week’s big news is that Geoffrey...
Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick Linda Yaccarino leaving NBCUniversal ‘effective immediately’
NBCUniversal announced Friday that its head of advertising, Linda Yaccarino, is leaving her post “effectively immediately” as the long-tenured executive reportedly engages in advanced talks with Elon Musk to take...
