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Chanel’s AI Lipscanner app will find lipstick in any shade

February 21, 2021

The next time you spot a lip color that you like, you can quickly use AI to find a corresponding shade in Chanel's range of lipsticks. The company is announcing today its new Lipscanner app that lets you use your phone's camera to identify a…

Google has fired another AI ethics leader

February 19, 2021

In December, Google pushed out AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, sparking a response from the team calling for her to be reinstated at a higher level. Instead of doing that, Google announced Dr. Marian Croak as Lead for the Responsible AI Research a…

AI has remastered Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ in glorious 4K

February 18, 2021

Word of warning, prepare to be rickrolled like you've never been rickrolled in the past. Thanks to AI software, you can now troll your friends with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" in crisp UHD. 

CNET spotted the video,…

Samsung Mobile’s head of camera R&D wants your phone to ‘personalize’ your photos

January 29, 2021

Samsung announced its first Galaxy S smartphone in the heady days of 2010, and at the time people were too jazzed by its 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and 1GHz processor to fret much about its cameras. The same could be said of Samsung itself — the comp…

Hitting the Books: AI doctors and the dangers tiered medical care

January 23, 2021

Healthcare is a human right, however, nobody said all coverage is created equal. Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are already making impressive inroads into the myriad fields of medicine — from IBM’s Watson: Hospital Edition and A…

Google is investigating an AI researcher over the handling of sensitive data

January 20, 2021

Google is investigating an artificial intelligence researcher after it detected that “an account had exfiltrated thousands of files” and shared them externally. Margaret Mitchell, a co-lead of the Ethical AI unit, has been locked out of Google’s corp…

Alexa’s ‘tell me when’ command sets reminders for upcoming events

January 9, 2021

Amazon is making it easier to remember an event you don’t want to miss. The Verge reports that Amazon has quietly introduced a hinted-at “tell me when” Alexa command that not only answers your question about an event, but sets a reminder when that ev…

This robot dog learned how to get up after being knocked down

January 5, 2021

At some point when you were a toddler, you learned how to pick yourself up after falling and eventually how to walk on your own two feet. You likely had encouragement from your parents, but for the most part, you learned through trial and error. That…

Hitting the Books: What do we want our AI-powered future to look like?

January 2, 2021

Once the shining city on a hill that the rest of the world looked to for leadership and guidance, America’s moral high ground has steadily eroded in recent decades — and rapidly accelerated since Trump’s corrupt, self-dealing tenure in the White Hous…