When Face Recognition Doesn't Know Your Face Is a Face An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they're getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services. Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her name changed on her license. While she was there, Gardiner recalls, officials said she needed to update her photo.

It may have looked like clunky blocks of circuitry, soldered together by hand in a mass of wires and boxes, but what Cowan was witnessing was an early analogue form of a neural network – a precursor to the most advanced artificial intelligence of today, including the much discussed ChatGPT with its ability to generate written content in response to almost any command. ChatGPT's underlying technology is a neural network. As Cowan and Taylor stood and watched the machine work, they had no idea exactly how it was managing to perform this task. The answer to Taylor's mystery machine brain can be found somewhere in its "analogue neurons", in the associations made by its machine memory and, most importantly, in the fact that its automated functioning couldn't really be fully explained. It would take decades for these systems to find their purpose and for that power to be unlocked.

The threat of deepfake content has become a prevalent issue since 2017, where a user started a viral phenomenon by combining machine learning software and AI to create inappropriate content with the faces of famous celebrities. Utilising a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning to manipulate and produce falsified pieces of content, deepfakes are the 21st century's answer to Photoshop. As the technology continues to develop and spread, deepfakes have started becoming a concern of the public. The World Intellectual Property Organisation states that deepfakes can cause problems such as violation of human rights, right of privacy and personal data protection rights. With this technology being relatively new, the public has not yet acquainted itself to the dangers of this technology.

Artificial intelligence has been talked about for years, but is it really close to taking over the world? Could you rely on it to manage your business? "Maybe you're using artificial intelligence without knowing that," said Iva Ignjatovic. "AI is pretty much everywhere. Even search engines predict the full search item."

Cortana (Jen Taylor) is one of the first characters that comes to mind when you think of the Halo universe. With a live-action Halo series on the way on Paramount, we thought a guide to Cortana (without giving too much away for those who haven't made their way through all the games) was in order. Cortana serves as a guide and ally to the player throughout Halo gameplay, and in that sense and many others, she is essential to the Halo experience. Her mannerisms as an AI make for a sort of dry humor that makes her stand out among other recurring characters in the game. It will be interesting to see how this character, who fits so easily into the video game format, will be adapted to a live-action television series.

Developed in the Pixel Lime labs in Burbank, California, Taylor is an AI driven digital human. Taylor was developed as a Career Coach for a national HR company. During the interview process he incorporates data traits from tens of thousands of individuals collected over a forty year period. He then offers career advice based on the initial assessment. From customer service to educating consumers about your brand to generating leads our AI driven humans are the ultimate addition to your staff.

Can technology affect human morality? This is not an esoteric test question from a college philosophy class, but a real, growing concern among leading technologists and thinkers. Technologies like social media, smartphones, and artificial intelligence can create moral issues at scale, and technology experts specifically and society generally are struggling to navigate these issues. On the one hand, technology can empower us with better information on the consequences of our actions, as when we use the Internet to research how to reduce our environmental footprint. In the past, such information may have been inaccessible or impossible to source, but today we can easily arm ourselves with data that helps us make choices we perceive to be more moral.

Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the future: of electric vehicles, mind-reading Alexas, robots and cryptocurrency, and also to harken back to the nostalgic past of '90s movies like Austin Powers and The Cable Guy. The Los Angeles Rams will take on the Cincinnati Bengals during Super Bowl 56 on Sunday at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. But for many, the big show of the night will be the commercials. Advertisers are hoping to deliver a dose of escapism with light humour and star-studded entertainment amid the pandemic, high inflation and tensions between Russia and Ukraine. "Marketers are recognising Americans have had a very heavy, difficult two-year period and are responding by bringing some good old-fashioned entertainment for Super Bowl Sunday," said Kimberly Whitler, marketing professor at the University of Virginia.

As robots enter human spaces and begin to work proximately with people, it is important that they understand human social interaction. They must be able to perceive human social signals and understand how to adapt to groups. The goal of our work is to design robot perception algorithms that allow robots to understand human group dynamics via social cues, and understand how to behave collaboratively in groups. In this paper, we discuss the current state-of-the-art of two fields that have contributed methods to achieve this goal, social signal processing and computer vision. We describe recent advances in these fields, as well as some of the challenges faced when adapting them to mobile robots.

In October, when Jamie Taylor's household monthly income fit within new state income limits after Missouri's 2021 expansion of Medicaid, she applied for health coverage. She received a rejection letter within days, stating that her earnings exceeded the acceptable limit. It was the latest blow in Taylor's ongoing campaign to get assistance from Missouri's safety net. Taylor, 41, has spent hours on the phone, enduring four-hour hold times and dropped calls. Time-sensitive documents were mailed to her home in Sikeston but by the time they arrived she had little time to act.