The Artificial Intelligence Database
Un-folding
This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus variant. They could point the way to future drugs.
By Tom Simonite
Silicon Smarts
Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence
With continuing advances in machine learning, it makes less and less sense to compare AI to the human mind.
By Kai-Fu Lee
Ethics
Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.
By Tom Simonite
RE:WIRED
Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
The AI researcher, who left Google last year, says the incentives around AI research are all wrong.
By Max G. Levy
Inside Job
This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
The National Security Commission on AI included members from Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Some of its recommendations are already federal law.
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
Deep Dive
The WIRED Guide to Self-Driving Cars
How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what's poised to be a runaway global industry.
By Alex Davies
log off
Social Media Algorithms Are Controlling How I Grieve
What happens to a loved one's account after they pass—and how does their digital afterlife affect the ones who survive them?
By Steven Blum
Structures
Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own
The Google subsidiary solved a fundamental problem in biology but didn’t promptly share its solution. So a University of Washington team tried to re-create it.
By Grace Huckins
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Chips Ahoy
Google's Next Pixel Phone Will Be Powered by a Custom Chip
Following the industry trend of tech giants manufacturing their own processors, the company will start putting bespoke silicon in its mobile hardware.
By Lauren Goode
Opinion
Biden’s ‘Antitrust Revolution’ Overlooks AI—at Americans’ Peril
A handful of companies have outsize influence on the world’s artificial intelligence. Policymakers must act now to stem the rise of powerful monopolies.
By Bhaskar Chakravorti
What's This?
Google Launches a New Medical App—Outside the US
The dermatology AI app won approval for use in the EU but not with the FDA, an odd twist on Europe's reputation for tough rules on tech.
By Tom Simonite
Process Locally
Apple’s and Google’s New AI Wizardry Promises Privacy—at a Cost
The companies revealed upgrades for their phones that protect data and reduce reliance on the cloud. It also binds users more tightly to their ecosystems.
By Tom Simonite
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
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
party line
How to Master Google's AI Phone Call Features
Your Android phone can do a lot of fancy tricks, from making reservations with Duplex or screening calls. Here's how to get the most out of them.
By Eric Ravenscraft
Ideas
Dumbed Down AI Rhetoric Harms Everyone
By ignorance or malice, policymakers use sweeping platitudes to regulate artificial intelligence, which may persecute citizens more than protect them.
By Justin Sherman
Stop Sign
I’m Not a Robot! So Why Won’t Captchas Believe Me?
If clicking crosswalks makes your blood boil, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are some tips that make solving those challenges way less frustrating.
By Sharon Waters
Goals
DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer
The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports.
By Amit Katwala