The Artificial Intelligence Database
Emotional AI
What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?
Technology used to only deliver our messages. Now it wants to write them for us by understanding our emotions.
By Will Coldwell
Quick Study
Facebook Says Its New AI Can Identify More Problems Faster
The “Few-Shot Learner” system doesn’t need to see as many examples to identify troublesome posts, and it works in more than 100 languages.
By Tom Simonite
Mum's the Word
Soon Your Google Searches Can Combine Text and Images
With the help of AI, you’ll be able to take a picture of a shirt, then ask Google to find socks with the same pattern.
By Khari Johnson
Ideas
Humans Can't Be the Sole Keepers of Scientific Knowledge
Communicating scientific results in outdated formats is holding progress back. One alternative: Translate science for machines.
By Iulia Georgescu
cerebras
A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible
Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
By Will Knight
A Little Birdie
This AI Helps Detect Wildlife Health Issues in Real Time
A system that scans animal rehabilitation center data could provide early alerts when a disease is spreading.
By Jennifer Clare Ball
Plaintext
OpenAI Is Making Coding As Easy As Talking to a Smart Speaker
Plus: The early days of programming, an existential investigation, and bipartisanship before our very eyes.
By Steven Levy
Listening
This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
Law enforcement officials say the tool can help them combat misinformation. Civil liberties advocates say it can be used for mass surveillance.
By Sidney Fussell
Machine Not Learning
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
By Tom Simonite
Drive-Thru
Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs
Unable to find enough workers, employers are turning to technology to perform tasks—and women are likely to be the hardest hit.
By Will Knight
Plain Language
Google Hopes AI Can Turn Search Into a Conversation
The tech giant wants its core product to infer meaning from human language, answer multipart questions—and look more like Google Assistant sounds.
By Khari Johnson
Oops
Don't End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
A list of incidents that caused, or nearly caused, harm aims to prompt developers to think more carefully about the tech they create.
By Tom Simonite
Plain Spoken
AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language
Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. “The code writes itself,” CEO Satya Nadella says.
By Khari Johnson
media
These Ex-Journalists Are Using AI to Catch Online Defamation
CaliberAI wants to help overstretched newsrooms with a tool that’s like spell-check for libel. But its potential uses go far beyond traditional media.
By Gilad Edelman
Ideas
What a Crossword AI Reveals About Humans' Way With Words
Dr. Fill, a puzzle-solving automaton, came out victorious at last week's national tournament—but human solvers shouldn't throw in the towel just yet.
By Ben Zimmer
WIRED Q&A
This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.
By Tom Simonite
Rewriting history
AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll
Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise.
By Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica
Mislabeled
The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors
The labels attached to images used to train machine-vision systems are often wrong. That could mean bad decisions by self-driving cars and medical algorithms.
By Will Knight
Ethics
A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google
Margaret Mitchell was the co-leader of a group investigating ethics in AI, alongside Timnit Gebru, who said she was fired in December.
By Tom Simonite
Plaintext
A New Company Pursues Total Recall—Starting With Zoom
Plus: The Obama campaign’s data wiz, the limits of content moderation, and a video filter gone awry.
By Steven Levy