29 June 2023
A New York City law is requiring companies to show that the AI-powered tools they use in hiring and promotion are not biased. Critics say it lets most employers off the hook
5 February 2021
Some tangles that look like knots are actually “the unknot”, which can be untangled into a simple loop, and a new algorithm has sped up the process of finding them
4 December 2020
Tapping on devices that is detected by voice assistants could potentially be used to deduce what a person is typing on their phone up to half a metre away
18 June 2020
The algorithms that ride-hailing companies such as Uber use to determine fare prices appear to set higher prices for non-white neighbourhoods
25 January 2019
One of the most powerful techniques in machine learning, generative adversarial networks, has been tested on a quantum computer for the first time
4 July 2018
AI his frequently be biased, but a new technique may be able put fairness right at the heart of training algorithms
27 February 2018
An AI found a bug in the Atari game Q*bert and exploited it to quickly score a million points. It used self-destruction as a winning strategy too
20 December 2017
By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing
7 November 2017
Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors
23 September 2017
An algorithm developed to detect electricity theft for companies in Latin America could also uncover billing errors
