Elon Musk warns AI could become an immortal dictator

Image: MORGAN SETTE/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Authoritarianism is nothing new. But at least Mussolini and Hitler died. In the age of artificial intelligence, we could create “an immortal dictator from which we would never escape,” says Elon Musk in the new documentary Do You Trust This Computer? SEE ALSO: Creepy AI scans a driver’s face and voice to […]

France wants to become an artificial intelligence hub

Emmanuel Macron and his government are launching a big initiative around artificial intelligence today. They want to turn France into one of the leading countries when it comes to artificial intelligence. “[Artificial intelligence] is a technological, economical, social and obviously ethical revolution,” Macron said in a speech. “This revolution won’t happen in 50 or 60 […]

Nvidia unveils new Tesla V100 GPU, DG-X supercomputer at GTC 2018

Image: smith collection/gado/Getty Images Nvidia has unveiled several updates to its deep-learning computing platform, including an absurdly powerful GPU and supercomputer. At this year’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the DGX-2, a new computer for researchers who are “pushing the outer limits of deep-learning research and computing” to train […]

Man makes app to erase your makeup in photos but insists it isn’t sexist

Artificial intelligence-based photo editing tools, in their brief existence in the history of humanity, are off to an immensely painful start. Selfie-editing tool FaceApp clumsily took the torch earlier this year, setting fire to the product’s intriguing face-altering premise by whitening users’ photos under an ill-intentioned “hot” filter. The same app continued to offend with […]