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GUEST: We are in a race for quantum supremacy. Google, IBM, and researchers across the globe are working on solving the most complex of computations, computations that could only be solved by the most advanced quantum computers. Quantum computers are very similar to the computers in households today — only much more powerful. So powerful, […]
Researchers at AI Now say algorithms increasingly used by government can be opaque and discriminatory. https://media.wired.com/photos/59e7869a46bb8211e3287357/master/pass/AbstractBlackBoxes-860651410.jpg Feed: All Latest
A big jump in the resolution of Google Street View imagery will help the company’s software read street signs and business names https://media.wired.com/photos/59a9c37960bc9b65643cc087/master/pass/GoogleStreetViewHP.jpg Feed: All Latest
(credit: Miguel Navarro / Getty Images) As the world’s great companies pursue autonomous cars, they’re essentially spending billions of dollars to get machines to do what your average two-year-old can do without thinking—identify what they see. Of course, in some regards toddlers still have the advantage. Infamously last year, a driver died while in a […]
Search algorithms on Google and Facebook can keep people apart just as easily as they can bring them together. This writer learned that the hard way. https://media.wired.com/photos/595bf05c01748335c4bd298d/master/pass/facebook_algorithm2%5B1%5D.png Wired
ANALYSIS: “Drawing on your phone or computer can be slow and difficult — so we created AutoDraw, a new web-based tool that pairs machine learning with drawings created by talented artists to help you draw,” wrote Google Creative Lab’s “creative technologist,” Dan Motzenbecker, earlier this week. AutoDraw is one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) experiments, working across platforms to […]
Enlarge / Porsche’s Cayman GT4 has been lauded as one of the company’s best-ever driver’s cars, but it’s actually even better with one of DSC Sport’s controllers on it. (credit: Jordan Edwards) A constant source of fascination for me is the software-defined car. Back in ye olden days, reconfiguring your car to suit the racetrack […]
Facebook is making changes to its advertising policy following last fall’s revelation that ad purchasers could discriminate by race. The social network’s solution at the time was to use algorithms that would weed out posts that used “ethnic affinity” for ads offering housing, employment or credit. Now, the anti-discrimination methods are going further. The first […]
Plug-in hybrid cars aren’t as efficient as they could be. While starting in a pure electric mode is good for relatively short trips, it actually hurts your fuel economy if you have to switch to the gas engine. Science may have a solution, though, and it’s taking its cue from nature. University of California, Riverside […]
