11 2023 November
Leica Pioneers the Anti-AI Camera That Fights Deepfakes by Certifying Every Picture
This week, German camera maker Leica introduced their new M11-P professional camera, which includes new digital watermarking technology that allows the camera to digitally verify that...
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07 2023 November
Doritos Creates AI That Silences the Sounds of Crunching While Gaming
Listening to someone crunchily eating Doritos is probably high on many lists of annoying behavior but imagine how much worse it must be to listen...
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07 2023 October
Is AI Creating More Monoculturalism?
The opposite of multiculturalism is monoculturalism – a society in which there is only one acceptable religion, mindset or system of behavior. Academic researchers around...
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21 2023 September
The Inevitability of AI Trip Planners
A few months ago, I was planning a trip to Croatia and approached a few online travel agents offering a customized holiday itinerary. I took...
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14 2023 August
New Reality Show Deep Fake Love May Unleash a Lot of New Problems into The World
Netflix’s latest reality show Deep Fake Love is portraying a dark potential future. The concept is simple and diabolical: a bunch of couples go on a reality show where they...
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09 2023 August
Korean Pop Star Releases Latest Song in Six Languages Using AI
What if AI could serve as a linguistics coach for a talented musician? That’s essentially what K-pop music label HYBE created using technology from AI...
Read Now31 2023 July
The Dark Side of “Sharenting” (And Why You Should Avoid Posting About Your Kids On Social Media)
European telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom launched a campaign using deepfakes to scare parents into being more careful about what they share online. The effort is meant...
Read Now05 2023 July
Will Humans Inevitably Turn Faith in AI Into a Religion?
Imagine a future where AI was all-knowing and all-understanding. These are abilities humans have typically ascribed to Gods worthy of worship. Soon, they may also...
Read Now04 2023 January
CES 2023: The 25 Non-Obvious Inventions, Technologies and Ideas To Watch
Reporting from the trade show floor at CES 2023, here are some of my picks for the most non-obvious inventions to watch and why they are so interesting.
Read Now30 2022 December
The Most Popular Non-Obvious Stories of 2022 (Based On Reader Feedback)
Based on this combination of quantitative and qualitative data, here is a partial list of some of the most popular stories of the year, based on what my readers shared.
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The First Robot Many People Loved Is Getting a Second Life
Last year in I wrote about a story from WIRED about the unexpectedly real sense of loss that many owners of the Jibo robot were feeling...
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How Researchers Trained and Created AI With Psycopathic Tendencies
What happens when you train an AI algorithm only with murderous images from horror films or macabre photos from the Internet? A seriously disturbed AI,...
Read Now30 2020 March
10 Futuristic Ideas Becoming Reality Faster Because Of COVID-19
For the past ten years I’ve been a collector of innovative ideas. When I write about them and interview the people behind them, I know...
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