China’s state-run press agency Xinhua on Tuesday unveiled its first female AI anchor, Xin Xiaomeng, who will join its growing team of virtual presenters Kelsey ChengDaily MailWed, 20 Feb 2019 18:38 UTC China’s state-run press agency has welcomed its first female AI anchor who will join its growing team of […]
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Something bizarre and incomprehensible is happening on YouTube. On one hand, the video platform has been hard at work demonetizing and un-recommending videos that could “misinform users” (i.e. conspiracy theories). On the other hand, YouTube is never stopped enabling the proliferation of thousands of deeply disturbing videos sexualizing children. Vigilant […]
Back in 2010, talk show guru Oprah Winfrey dedicated an entire episode of her show to a self-professing “faith healer” with whom she claims she had a “blissful” encounter. But as we recently reported, this “faith healer” has since been exposed as a serial rapist who had actually been operating […]
This is no joke: AI technology that makes up it’s own phoney news stories complete with imaginary quotes! Now AI can tell lies, and that has some scary implications: Creators of AI text generator say it’s too dangerous to release Harry CockburnThe IndependentFri, 15 Feb 2019 20:46 UTC © Shutterstock […]
It was the viral story of the week: a teenager in a “Make America Great Again” cap was filmed standing in front of a Native American drummer smiling broadly as his friends cheered. news.com.au By: Emma Reynolds As the days passed, a more complex picture of what happened between rival […]
A new study claims that Google personalizes search results even when a Google user is logged out of their account or browsing “incognito.” Tests for the phrases “gun control,” “immigration,” and “vaccinations” all provided different results for different test users which could reportedly not be explained by changes in location […]
Always fun to decipher an Economist cover. Who sees the stork with a barcoded Baby-bag? Or how about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Can you read “Leonardese” mirror writing?
As China develops AI-enabled nuclear submarines, a dystopian surveillance apparatus, and trains their “brightest children” to develop AI “killer bots,” they’re also about to put newscasters out of a job. by Tyler Durden Fri, 11/09/2018 Meet Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua’s newest anchor: an artificial intelligence which never sleeps – […]
One thing you have to understand about Mr. Zucker. What he does, he does for show. For ratings. If he could get away with claiming Trump met with Putin on the dark side of the moon to concoct a way to beat Hillary Clinton, he would run with it. […]
Sometimes things are the opposite of what they appear to be! Like the situation in this interview, for instance… by Martin Harris 23/10/18 While researching yesterday, my attention was taken by this remarkable interview with Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey: My initial reaction to this interview by host […]