Subconscious bias on the part of potential employers could become a thing of the past, thanks to a'robo-interviewer' currently in development. Tengai, a torso-less robot that speaks and smiles, will judge you purely on your abilities - leaving race, gender and other potentially influencing factors aside. Sweden's largest recruitment company TNG is already using the robot with the human-like interface in a series of trials. Tengai (pictured), the torso-less robot that speaks and smiles, is being trained at Sweden's largest recruitment company TNG to learn to conduct interviews through AI technology. Furhat is a social robot created by Stockholm-based startup Furhat Robotics.

Earlier Tuesday, the Dallas Morning News reported that pilots made five complaints about the Boeing aircraft to federal authorities in the months leading up to Sunday's crash. The complaints, voluntarily made in the FAA's incident database, referenced problems with an autopilot system that occurred during the aircraft's ascent after takeoff, according to the Morning News. An FAA spokesman told the paper that such reports were filed directly to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

TELLING a yellow taxi and a pair of binoculars apart is so easy most people could do it standing on their head. Not so for an artificial intelligence: flip the cab upside down and it sees binoculars. This is just one of dozens of examples that show AI is a lot worse at identifying objects by sight than many people realise.

Facial recognition algorithms are being trained using photos of people who have not given their consent, legal experts have warned. Companies like IBM are scraping millions of publicly available images from Flickr and other sites in order to improve the technology, though the people in the photos have no idea this is happening. Civil rights activists warn that this technology could one day be used to track and spy on the same people whose faces have been used to train it. We'll tell you what's true. You can form your own view.

Spotify has lodged a complaint against Apple, arguing that it is using its dominance over the iPhone to give itself an unfair advantage. The complaint to the European Commission (EC) was launched with a blog post and entire separate website created by Spotify to detail its various problems with Apple. It says that Apple is intentionally stopping Spotify from integrating certain features in order to keep its advantage. And that is making the service worse to use for the people who subscribe, Spotify said. We'll tell you what's true.

Ang Lee hasn't given up on high-frame-rate cinema despite the expensive misfire that was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. The two-time Oscar winner is shooting his upcoming film, sci-fi assassin thriller Gemini Man, in 3D at 120 frames-per-second (fps) and 4K resolution. There's just one problem: theater chains may not be able to screen it in the format. To ensure it gets a wide release that matches Lee's intended vision, Paramount is writing to cinema owners with instructions on how to bring their projector equipment up to speed, reports The Playlist. Paramount's letter includes directions on how to conduct a HFR test and describes the 120 fps-4K-3D combo as the "most pristine and immersive format" for showing the film.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." – Arthur C. Clarke (1961) This quote couldn't apply better to general search engines and web ranking algorithms. You can ask Bing about mostly anything and you'll get the best 10 results out of billions of webpages within a couple of seconds. If that's not magic, I don't know what is! Sometimes the query is about an obscure hobby. Sometimes it's about a news event that nobody could have predicted yesterday. Sometimes it's even unclear what the query is about!

Ever since Amazon turned its gaze to healthcare, questions about the eCommerce operator's plans and intentions have outnumbered answers. That's still true, and may remain so for the time being, but this week new details emerged that, at the least, is shedding light on Amazon's healthcare vision. Here's the scoop, courtesy of court testimony: Amazon wants to, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "redesign health insurance." And that's only one possible aim -- others involve using artificial intelligence to improve diagnoses and the overall patient experience, but we'll get to that in a bit. Among the biggest ongoing mysteries for even the most sophisticated Amazon watchers is the specific purpose of the independent healthcare company that includes Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, a venture that was announced last year. Thanks to a lawsuit and unsealed court testimony over a non-compete clause involving a United Healthcare executive who joined that Amazon-backed venture, at least one of the goals of the venture -- which still has no official public name -- has emerged.

Last month OpenAI rather dramatically withheld the release of its newest language model, GPT-2, because it feared it could be used to automate the mass production of misinformation. The decision also accelerated the AI community's ongoing discussion about how to detect this kind of fake news. In a new experiment, researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and HarvardNLP considered whether the same language models that can write such convincing prose can also spot other model-generated passages. The idea behind this hypothesis is simple: language models produce sentences by predicting the next word in a sequence of text. So if they can easily predict most of the words in a given passage, it's likely it was written by one of their own.

At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras collected under varied conditions, such as sunny and poor weather. Artificial intelligence software proficient at that task could help the US tech giants with money-making projects such as autonomous cars or augmented reality. But the winner was an institution with very different interests and allegiances: China's National University of Defense Technology, a top military academy of the People's Liberation Army. That anecdote helps illustrate China's broad ambitions in AI and recent prominence on the field's frontiers. In 2017, the country's government announced a new artificial intelligence strategy that aimed to rival the US in the crucial technology by 2020.