Tag: Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?
Why Everyone Else BelievesIn the mid-1960s, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joseph Weizenbaum, built an…
A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science
In 2020, an artificial intelligence lab called DeepMind unveiled technology that could predict the shape of proteins —…
Google Fires Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Conscious
SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, on Friday, more than a month after…
Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings
Reid Bauer was finishing lunch period last year at his middle school in the Atlanta area when an…
Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta on Tuesday agreed to alter its ad technology and pay a penalty of $115,054,…
Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able…
Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient
SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial…
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
Dr. Orridge did not respond to requests for comment for this article. A spokeswoman from Broward College said…
Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive?
The goal is not to replace workers but to lift their performance, said Zayd Enam, the company’s co-founder…
Google’s I/O Conference Offers Modest Vision of the Future
SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when Google offered a wondrous vision of the future, with driverless…
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems,…
Can A.I. All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There.
In Barcelona, Spain, a recent trial used computer vision technology on city buses to map places along the…