When TikTok videos emerged in 2021 that seemed to show “Tom Cruise” making a coin disappear and enjoying a lollipop, the account name was the only obvious clue that this wasn’t the real deal....
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What Humans Lose When We Let AI Decide
Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Already a member? Sign in Not a member? Sign up today Member Free 5 free...
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Humans feel more comfortable talking to ‘female’ robots, study reveals
EVERETT, Wash. — When it comes to robots, a new study finds the future really is female. A Washington State University researcher has found that people respond better to robots which have “female” characteristics...
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New theory of consciousness in humans, animals and artificial intelligence
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have come up with a new theory of consciousness. They have long been exploring the nature of consciousness, the question of how and where...
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New Artificial Intelligence System Enables Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do. Computer vision systems sometimes make inferences about a scene that fly in the face of...
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Turning Ghosts into Humans: Surveillance as an Instrument of Social Engineering in Xinjiang
Wrists and ankles strapped into a restraining “tiger chair,” a man is used as a subject with which to “train” artificial intelligence-assisted facial recognition technology to detect states of emotion. Minute changes in facial...
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Humans in the loop: It takes people to ensure artificial intelligence success
When it comes to artificial intelligence, don’t try to go it alone. IT departments, no matter how skilled and ready, can only go so far past proofs of concept. It takes people — from...
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Yuval Harari warns humans will be “hacked” if artificial intelligence is not globally regulated
The future could see the world’s human data, delivered through the rising power and reach of artificial intelligence, in the hands of a powerful few – a recipe for a dystopian tomorrow populated by...
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