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Here's how Americans view facial recognition and driverless cars

NPR Technology

A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2019. A live demonstration uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition in dense crowd spatial-temporal technology at the Horizon Robotics exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2019. In recent years, the proliferation of artificial intelligence has given the world technology like Siri, Netflix recommendations and chat customer support. But a new survey shows Americans are still torn about how it may continue to impact society. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center surveyed more than 10,000 adults and found that their support of artificial intelligence varied, depending on its use.


The 'Halo' TV show is violent, gritty and starts on the right foot

Washington Post - Technology News

The biggest difference from the games is that "Halo," a show developed by Kyle Killen ("Mind Games," "The Beaver") and Steven Kane ("The Closer," "The Last Ship"), kick-starts immediately with Master Chief navigating an identity crisis. The super soldier's thoughts are bouncing between his role as a duty-bound, RoboCop-like galactic enforcer and becoming a kinder, fuzzier Terminator with a heart of gold. The stimulus for this self-awareness is the show's most contrived plot point, namely Chief's connection with a magical ancient stone, an ever-reliable modern McGuffin. But the consequences of that internal crisis, at least for the first two episodes, also provide the best source of rising tension between Master Chief's dawning sense of righteousness and the borderline fascist government of the United Nations Space Command.


Protecting The Human: Ethics In AI

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When we think about the future of our world and what exactly that looks like, it's easy to focus on the shiny objects and technology that make our lives easier: flying cars, 3D printers, digital currencies and automated everything. In the opening scene of the animated film WALL-E โ€“ which takes place in the year 2805 โ€“ a song from "Hello, Dolly!" happily plays in the background, starkly contrasting the glimpse we get of our future planet Earth: an abandoned wasteland with heaping piles of trash around every corner. Humans had all evacuated Earth by this point and were living in a spaceship, where futuristic technology and automation left them overweight, lazy and completely oblivious to their surroundings. Machines do everything for them, from the hoverchairs that carry them around, to the robots that prepare their food. Glued to their screens all day, which have taken control of their lives and decisions, humans exhibit lazy behaviors like video chatting the person physically next to them.


Russian model who trashed Putin on social media found dead in suitcase: Report

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Russian model who previously called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has been found dead with her body stuffed inside a suitcase, a report says. Gretta Vedler, 23, went missing a year ago after the anti-Putin social media rant, but the two events do not appear to be connected. "Vedler's ex-boyfriend Dmitry Korovin, 23, has now confessed to strangling her to death before driving her 300 miles to the Lipetsk region and abandoning the body in the boot of a car.." the Daily Star reports.


How digital transformation is shaping the future of work

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The pandemic ushered us all into this experience together, and now that we have "graduated" into a post-pandemic world, we can reflect on the lessons it has taught us. The lessons include living and working together to create a world and organisation unified by a purpose. It also helped shake the mindset of the global economy as we strived to make the impossible possible. Instead of employees following a fixed schedule, it has transitioned to employees being on-demand as per their choice of time and place. As a result, employees are now free from the office walls - it is limitless, and they can meet the needs of their companies and consumers.


Netflix's New No. 1 Uses a Creepy Special Effect to Dishonor a '90s Icon

Slate

This post contains spoilers for The Adam Project. The villain in Netflix's The Adam Project is meant to seem like a familiar face, but there's something fundamentally wrong with them--their face, specifically. In the new time-travel thriller, Ryan Reynolds zaps back to the early 21st century to stop the invention of the technology that will eventually ruin the world. The problem isn't the tech itself, which was invented by his late father shortly before his death. The problem is the unscrupulous hands it will eventually fall into--the hands of his dad's ruthless business partner, Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener).


Top Movies Of 2021 That Depicted AI

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Artificial intelligence has turned into a hot trend in the IT business in the past several years. While the practical ramifications of artificial intelligence frequently differ from the way it is typically shown in the film, these are the top artificial intelligence films of 2021. Lana Wachowski is the producer, co-writer, and director of The Matrix Resurrections' AI-based science fiction action film. The Matrix Reloaded is the follow-up to 2003's The Matrix Revolutions and the fourth film in the franchise overall. A catastrophic war between humans and artificial intelligence-powered machines is believed to be depicted in the film's plot, which has not yet been revealed.


Tech & Science Daily: Why AI 'shouldn't tackle disinformation online'

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Odanga Madung found users were being paid to tweet disinformation on social media, to try and influence policies in the country. In response to Odanga's research - Twitter permanently suspended hundreds of accounts, but he's called on them to'address the problem' ahead of elections in Kenya this year. The Natural Museum say a new plant-eating dinosaur has been discovered in China. Fossils found of the Yuxisaurus dinosaur include parts of the skull, jaws, limbs and large numbers of armour spines and plates. Microsoft's Direct-Storage API used in the Xbox Series X to massively improve loading times is coming to PC games.


An AI Twitter bot that only tweets good news, with Python and GPT2

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Running AI these days is increasingly simple due to the hard work of open source contributors producing top-notch libraries out there, and research groups opening up their work so others can build on it. One key library doing that is HuggingFace's Transformers library. HuggingFace are a startup building, amongst other NLP-related products, a library and model ecosystem that allows almost anyone to quickly and easily set up AI-powered chat bots that can consume or produce natural language. In this post, I'll demonstrate how I used this library to produce a Twitter bot that is only tweeting made-up (and slightly quirky) good news This blog post isn't meant to explain any theory, but for those who aren't familiar, the easiest way to explain this kind of AI, is they're sophisticated pattern recognition systems. If you feed it enough data, it can build up an ability to recognize the patterns in the english language, to the extent that if you ask it to repeat the pattern, not only will it generate mostly correct English grammar, it might also from time to time generate a coherent sentence!


Henny Admoni Is Building Better Robots By Studying Humans

CMU School of Computer Science

When Henny Admoni tells people she's a roboticist who primarily studies humans, she gets strange looks. "It might seem a little weird," Admoni says, "but the goal of my research is to understand how to make robots good for people." Admoni leads the Human and Robot Partners Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, where, along with a team of researchers, she studies the ways robots and AI can improve people's lives. The lab has worked on robotic arms that assist people in eating food and preparing meals; they've observed robots that encourage artists to think outside the box, and they've looked at how robots can help search and rescue teams collaborate more effectively. With a library of published papers, awards, and international speaking engagements under her belt, one might think that, for Admoni, robotics has been a lifelong passion.