The future of generative AI is niche, not generalized
The relentless hype surrounding generative AI in the past few months has been accompanied by equally loud anguish over the supposed perils — just look at the open letter calling...
Google to label AI-generated images as viral Trump deepfake
Google is adding features that will help users identify pictures that were generated through artificial intelligence — a move that came after deepfake images of Pope Francis in a Balenciaga...
Deep-learning system explores materials’ interiors from the outside
Maybe you can’t tell a book from its cover, but according to researchers at MIT you may now be able to do the equivalent for materials of all sorts, from...
Recent advances in deep long-horizon forecasting
Posted by Rajat Sen and Abhimanyu Das, Research Scientists, Google Research Time-series forecasting is an important research area that is critical to several scientific and industrial applications, like retail supply...
A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard are excellent at crafting sentences that sound like human writing. But they often present falsehoods as facts and have inconsistent logic, and that...
Tesla shouldn’t call driving system Autopilot, Pete Buttigieg says
Tesla shouldn’t be calling its partially automated driving system Autopilot because the cars can’t drive themselves, the top US transportation official says. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he’s concerned about Tesla’s marketing of the...
Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
When medical companies manufacture the pills and tablets that treat any number of illnesses, aches, and pains, they need to isolate the active pharmaceutical ingredient from a suspension and dry...
Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating machine learning prototyping with interactive tools
Posted by Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead, Google Augmented Reality, and Na Li, Tech Lead Manager, Google CoreML Update — 2023/05/08: This post has been updated to include...
Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has quit Google
Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is...
Elon Musk to tap NBCU ad boss Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter CEO: report
Billionaire Elon Musk revealed Thursday that he has hired a female executive to replace him as CEO of Twitter. Musk’s pick reportedly will be NBCUniversal’s head of advertising Linda Yaccarino,...
Researchers create a tool for accurately simulating complex systems
Researchers often use simulations when designing new algorithms, since testing ideas in the real world can be both costly and risky. But since it’s impossible to capture every detail of...
Google at CHI 2023
Posted by Malaya Jules, Program Manager, Google This week, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) is being held in Hamburg, Germany. We are proud to be...
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...
How the Blackberry became indispensable — and then disappeared
Back in the 1990s, long before the pandemic made remote work the new normal, a few tech geeks at a Canadian company named Research In Motion, working out of a...
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...
