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The state of AI in 2019

By James Vincent

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The Real-World AI Issue

How artificial intelligence and machine learning are affecting technology right now

By The Verge Staff

Artificial Intelligence

Machines with brains are the future, and The Verge is here to explain it all. From Google and Facebook’s use of machine learning to rule the web, to cutting-edge research and why Alexa still sucks at conversation. We want to dispel the hype of AI and distill what it is you need to know.

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Why Google’s union is a big deal 

By Zoe Schiffer

Google workers announce plans to unionize

By Zoe Schiffer

Let the dulcet tones of Google’s Blob Opera ring in the holiday season with machine learning

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Go watch this WSJ documentary about living on digitally after you die

By Kim Lyons

Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story

By Zoe Schiffer

Googlers say Gebru was the heart and soul of the ethical AI research team

Timnit Gebru’s actual paper may explain why Google ejected her

By Kim Lyons

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Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition

By Nick Statt
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Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI

By Nick Statt
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Go watch this video about an AI system that can predict how proteins fold

By Kait Sanchez

Google’s latest AI tool turns your MS Paint doodles into freakish monsters

By James Vincent
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Facebook is now using AI to sort content for quicker moderation

By James Vincent
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Amazon’s Alexa will now guess what skills you want to use based on your questions

By James Vincent
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Pope Francis urges followers to pray that AI and robots ‘always serve mankind’

By James Vincent
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Inside Amazon’s $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human

By James Vincent
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Google wants your help to improve Google Photos’ AI

By James Vincent
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AI camera operator repeatedly confuses bald head for soccer ball during live stream

By James Vincent
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Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology

By Zoe Schiffer

The harassing comments were posted in a Slack channel called #RawVerkadawgz

Google tests smart displays that activate without a wake word

By Jon Porter
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Deepfake bots on Telegram make the work of creating fake nudes dangerously easy

By James Vincent

Photoshop’s AI neural filters can tweak age and expression with a few clicks

By James Vincent
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Microsoft’s new image-captioning AI will help accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond

By James Vincent
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Inside Waymo’s strategy to grow the best brains for self-driving cars

The Google spinoff has a head start in AI, but can they maintain the lead?

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Nvidia says its AI can fix some of the biggest problems in video calls

Face alignment, noise reduction, and AI-powered superresolution

By James Vincent
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Twitter plans to change how image cropping works following concerns over racial bias

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Amazon’s AZ1 Neural Edge processor will make Alexa voice commands even faster

By Cameron Faulkner
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Alexa’s latest upgrades help it listen to multiple people and ask clarifying questions

By Jon Porter

Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI’s groundbreaking GPT-3 text generation model

By Nick Statt
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Photoshop’s sky replacement tool makes it easier to fake a perfect sunset

By James Vincent
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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match?

By James Vincent
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Amazon gives Samuel L. Jackson his own Alexa wake phrase

By Nick Statt

“Hey Samuel” is a new Alexa wake phrase

Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm acquisition is about bringing AI down from the cloud

By James Vincent
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Amazon Alexa’s next celebrity voice belongs to Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan

By Nick Statt
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I learned to make a lip-syncing deepfake in just a few hours (and you can, too)

By James Vincent
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Google Magenta’s Lo-Fi Player lets you create your own virtual music room

By Kim Lyons

How Google Maps uses DeepMind’s AI tools to predict your arrival time

By James Vincent
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These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

"He’s getting all 100s"

By Monica Chin

Google’s AI flood warnings now cover all of India and have expanded to Bangladesh

By James Vincent

How to watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink demo at 6PM ET / 3PM PT

By Barbara Krasnoff