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IBM's debating robot argues it out with human for first time

IBM's debating robot argues it out with human for first time

19 June 2018

IBM's AI has taken on humans in a public debate. Though it made some very robot-like errors, the AI won one debate and lost the other, based on a crowd vote
DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture

14 June 2018

A neural network has taught itself to ‘imagine’ a scene from different viewpoints, including how shadows move and textures vary, based on just a single image
Four images of Barack Obama from a fake videos

How can you tell if a video is a deepfake? Just look at the eyes

13 June 2018

Fake videos created by AI are often so good it’s hard to tell if they are real or not, so a new fakery fighting tool tracks eyes to identify the real deal

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