The Real-World AI Issue

The state of AI in 2019

By James Vincent

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.

Google is investigating another top AI ethicist

By Jon Porter January 20

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Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants

By Nick Statt January 15

FTC settles with photo storage app that pivoted to facial recognition

By Kim Lyons January 11

Why Google’s union is a big deal

By Zoe Schiffer January 7

Google workers announce plans to unionize

By Zoe Schiffer

The union plans to tackle Google’s ‘unethical’ government contracts

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

By Chaim Gartenberg December 15, 2020

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

By Kim Lyons December 15, 2020

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

‘Dr. Gebru did not resign, despite what Jeff Dean has publicly stated’

By Zoe Schiffer December 7, 2020

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

By Kim Lyons December 5, 2020

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

By Nick Statt December 2, 2020

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

By Nick Statt December 2, 2020

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

By Kait Sanchez December 1, 2020

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

By James Vincent November 18, 2020

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

By James Vincent June 13, 2018

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Facebook is now using AI to sort content for quicker moderation

By James Vincent November 13, 2020

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

By James Vincent November 11, 2020

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

By James Vincent

The pope says: pray for good AI

Google wants your help to improve Google Photos’ AI

By James Vincent November 11, 2020

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

By James Vincent November 3, 2020

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Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology

By Zoe Schiffer October 26, 2020

Google tests smart displays that activate without a wake word

By Jon Porter October 22, 2020

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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 May 9, 2018

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

By James Vincent October 20, 2020

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

By James Vincent October 20, 2020

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

By James Vincent October 14, 2020

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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 October 5, 2020

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

By Chaim Gartenberg October 2, 2020

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

By Cameron Faulkner September 24, 2020

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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match?

By James Vincent January 23, 2018

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

By Jon Porter

Its tone will also adjust based on the conversation

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

By Nick Statt September 22, 2020

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

By James Vincent September 21, 2020

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Amazon gives Samuel L. Jackson his own Alexa wake phrase

By Nick Statt September 16, 2020

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

By James Vincent September 14, 2020

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

By Nick Statt September 14, 2020

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

By James Vincent September 9, 2020

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

By Kim Lyons September 5, 2020

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

By James Vincent September 3, 2020

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