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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s driver recognition pilot program has yielded perfect results: it works zero percent of the time. Congratulations would be in order, but despite this fantastic failure the state intends to continue building it’s privacy-smashing facial recognition program. The program, according to The Wall Street Journal, suffered from abject failure due to the current technology’s inability to detect faces at high speeds. The Journal reports a November document related to the New York Metro Transit Authority’s oversight of the program states: Initial period for the proof of concept testing at the RFK for facial recognition has been…
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Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his highly-salaried perch at Google. His hiring indicates Apple’s placing a higher priority on machine learning technology. And it may tell us a little about the Cupertino company’s next big product. What’s a GAN? Read our primer on neural networks to learn more. Little is currently known about the circumstances surrounding Goodfellow’s move from Google, where he worked twice with a stint at OpenAI in between, to Apple. Neither company, to the best of our knowledge, has publicly commented on the…
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Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they’re not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ads for graphic t-shirts somehow manage to be all three — and a subreddit is celebrating them in all their bizarre glory. You probably know the kinds of shirts I’m talking about — I feel like everyone’s seen at least one, and they’ve been making the rounds since at least last year. Each one looks like a social media-based AI got drunk and threw up refrigerator magnet poetry. They mention specific things relating to what information you’ve put online, such…
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Back in December, Microsoft surprised everyone – those who hadn’t been following the rumors, anyway – by announcing it was shifting Edge to Google’s ubiquitous Chromium platform. Chromium promises better and faster support for constantly evolving web standards. You can now give this shinier version of Edge a try for yourself. The company today released its first Developer and Canary builds of the browser – the former updated weekly, and the latter daily. I’ve been able to test an early build briefly before it went public. The first thing I noticed is that it’s not simply a carbon copy of…
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