Facebook has a new tool to spot spammers, and it's already taken down billions of accountsEven equipped with a brand-new, high-performance algorithm, Facebook is unsure that it will ever win the war against fake accounts.March 4, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Spy agency: Artificial intelligence is already a vital part of our missionsThe UK's GCHQ has unveiled plans to ramp up its use of algorithms. What could go wrong?February 25, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
YouTube's algorithm is still recommending videos that you wish you hadn't seen, say researchersMozilla led a 10-month investigation to try and uncover the workings of YouTube's recommendation algorithm - and found it is time for the platform to provide full transparency.July 7, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Twitter is taking a closer look at its own algorithms in a bid to reduce biasThe social media platform has launched a new initiative to evaluate its AI systems and better inform users.April 15, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Technology is about to destroy millions of jobs. But, if we're lucky, it will create even moreThe double challenge posed by the global recession and automation could cause huge shifts in the world of work.October 22, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
The new weapon in the fight against biased algorithms: Bug bountiesDeborah Raji is researching ways to apply the models that underpin bug bounty programs to algorithmic harm detection.March 17, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
This powerful new supercomputer will let scientists ask 'the right questions'Nvidia-powered supercomputer will be based in Cambridge - the home of Arm.October 7, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Evil AI: These are the 20 most dangerous crimes that artificial intelligence will createA new report tells us which criminal applications of AI we should really worry about.August 5, 2020 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Facebook's new open-source dataset could help make AI less biasedThe social media platform says that the new dataset could help researchers address discriminatory flaws in their AI systems.April 9, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics
Who needs a supercomputer? Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problemsA new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI models from the need for a supercomputer.February 3, 2021 by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in AI & Robotics