This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects
With 3D inkjet printing systems, engineers can fabricate hybrid structures that have soft and rigid components, like robotic grippers that are strong enough to grasp heavy objects but soft enough...
Behind Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s push to get AI tools in developers’ hands
In San Francisco last week, everyone’s favorite surprise visitor was Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. At OpenAI’s DevDay—the company’s first-ever event for developers building on its platform—Nadella bounded on stage to...
Tesla allowed to ban factory workers from wearing union T-shirts: court
Elon Musk’s Tesla did not violate US labor law by prohibiting workers at its flagship Fremont, Calif., assembly plant from wearing pro-union T-shirts, a federal appeals court has ruled. The...
Underage Workers Are Training AI
Appen declined to give an attributable comment. “If we suspect a user has violated the User Agreement, Toloka will perform an identity check and request a photo ID and a...
Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies
For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left by the authorities. In 2021, 106,699 Americans died of an...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai grilled during Google Play trial
Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the witness stand on Tuesday in the search giant’s antitrust trial versus “Fortnite” maker Epic Games — and immediately faced aggressive grilling over the tech...
Google Maps is getting an AI makeover — 5 new features to try
Which way to the future? Google Maps is revving up for the rollout of significant, artificial intelligence-fueled improvements in the weeks and months to come. Already popping up for some...
Google unveils GraphCast, ‘unprecedented’ AI weather forecaster
The forecast is looking good for this new weather program. Google DeepMind, the search engine’s AI-focused lab, has introduced a game-changing weather forecasting model that is said to deliver 10-day...
New book reveals how the whistle got blown on Facebook
On a December afternoon in 2020, Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz drove to Redwood Regional Park, just east of Oakland, Calif., for a mysterious meeting. For months, he’d been...
Are AI faces ‘more human’ than real ones? See if you can tell the difference
Face the facts. AI-generated faces look more “real” than some humans, according to a new study — at least, when it comes to white people. Published in the Psychological Science...
Big Tech companies lose bid to toss lawsuits alleging harm to children
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing them of illegally enticing and then addicting millions of children to their platforms,...
AI is at an inflection point, Fei-Fei Li says
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 moment in AI is an...
Google DeepMind’s weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately
This year the Earth has been hit by a record number of unpredictable extreme weather events made worse by climate change. Predicting them faster and with greater accuracy could enable...
Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard
In September, researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI unit in London were paying unusual attention to the weather across the pond. Hurricane Lee was at least 10 days out from landfall—eons...
How Facebook went all in on AI
The following is excerpted from BROKEN CODE: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf...
