ai art Inside the Controversy Over Christie's Record-Breaking AI Art Sale Christie's auctions the first AI-generated portrait at a major auction house for $432,500, sparking intense debate over originality and credit. Questions swirl around the French collective Obvious and their use of an open-source algorithm created by another artist.
amazon Amazon Scraps AI Recruiting Tool After It Learns to Discriminate Against Women Amazon abandons an experimental AI recruiting engine after discovering it automatically penalizes female candidates. The system learns this sexist behavior by training on a decade of male-dominated tech industry resumes.
amazon Amazon Abandons AI Recruiting Tool After Discovering Anti-Woman Bias Amazon scraps a secret AI hiring engine after discovering it systematically penalizes female job applicants. The system learns to prefer male candidates by training on a decade of male-dominated resumes.
google Google Retools Duplex AI to Address Ethical Concerns Google showcases an updated version of Duplex, its human-sounding AI that makes phone calls on behalf of users. The revised system now clearly identifies itself as an artificial agent to address privacy and ethical backlash.
google Google Begins Public Testing of Duplex AI That Makes Phone Reservations Google is launching a limited public test of its Duplex AI system, which uses Google Assistant to make real phone calls to businesses. The initial tests focus strictly on asking about holiday hours in New York and San Francisco.
google Google Pulls Back the Curtain on Controversial Duplex AI Google reveals new details about Duplex, the AI system that makes human-sounding phone calls to book appointments. The company takes a slow approach to address ethical concerns and gather public feedback.
openai OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeat Human Players Using Team Neural Networks OpenAI trains a team of five neural networks to defeat human opponents in the real-time game Dota 2. The system plays 180 years' worth of games daily to prepare for an upcoming esports championship.
microsoft Microsoft Acquires AI Startup Bonsai to Boost Cloud Offerings Microsoft purchases Bonsai, a startup specializing in reinforcement learning, to enhance its Azure cloud platform. The acquisition supports Microsoft's ongoing strategy to commercialize artificial intelligence for enterprise customers.
artificial intelligence Major AI Facial Recognition Systems Show Significant Gender and Racial Bias A new MIT and Stanford study reveals that commercial facial-analysis software struggles to accurately identify the gender of dark-skinned women, with error rates reaching nearly 35 percent compared to less than one percent for light-skinned men.
mit MIT and IBM Train AI to Understand Dynamic Video Events The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab develops new methods to teach computers how to recognize and understand actions unfolding over time in videos.
google Google Unveils AI-Powered Android P Beta at I/O 2018 Google introduces the Android P Beta, featuring machine learning at its core to improve battery life and user navigation. The announcement highlights a major shift toward artificial intelligence across Google's ecosystem.
ai for good Geneva Summit Seeks AI Projects to Advance UN Development Goals The second AI for Good Global Summit opens in Geneva to connect artificial intelligence initiatives with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. ITU chief Zhao Houlin calls for concrete AI solutions to accelerate global progress.
darpa DARPA Launches $2 Billion AI Next Campaign for Contextual Reasoning DARPA announces a $2 billion multi-year investment called AI Next to push artificial intelligence into a third wave focused on contextual adaptation. The campaign aims to transform machines from fragile tools into collaborative problem-solving partners for humans.
mit MIT Commits $1 Billion to New Computing College Focused on AI Ethics MIT launches the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing with a $350 million foundational gift, backed by a total $1 billion commitment to address the global impact of artificial intelligence.
darpa DARPA Commits $2 Billion to Advance Third Wave Artificial Intelligence The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to spend $2 billion over five years to develop AI systems that learn and adapt. This massive scientific investment complements the Pentagon's newly established Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.