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Car dealership asks woman to prove she’s not a robot… in real life

May23
by on May 23, 2018 at 8:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Cars


When Marci Robin entered a Florida car dealership to buy a Fiat 500x, no one thought she’d leave with an existential crisis. According to Robin, while in the process of signing paperwork to purchase the car, she was presented with a simple question, strange as it was: was she a robot? Presumably, she was not. The question, born of the online reCAPTCHA form, presents a single box, to be checked only if the human on the other side can confirm that they are, indeed, human. If you’re a human, or a robot crafty enough to bypass the CAPTCHA, a single…

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OnePlus 6 Review: Small design downgrade, big camera upgrade

May23
by on May 23, 2018 at 8:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Reviews


OnePlus has always tried to deliver flagship features and performance at mid-range prices, but it always seems to fall just a little bit shy of the top. Despite regularly sporting class-leading performance, some aspects lacked that last bit of polish that makes a Google Pixel or Samsung so popular. (You know, besides the giant companies backing them). The OnePlus 6 is, for me, the phone that crosses the threshold into unqualified flagship territory. Of course that may have happened with prior models to some of OnePlus’ loyal fans. But as someone lucky enough to test nearly every flagship under the…

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We need an ‘invisibility switch’ to hide from dark interactions

May23
by on May 23, 2018 at 8:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Woman A:  “Hello. How can I help you?”Woman B: “Hi. I’m calling to book a woman’s haircut for a client. I’m looking for something on May 3.”Woman A: “Sure. Give me one second — sure. What time are you looking for around?”Woman B: “At 12 p.m.” Most of you will recognize this phone conversation. Not because it was particularly exciting, but because, as was revealed later, neither voices were human. They were AI-generated bots impersonating humans, created by Google. Although this first onstage demo of Google Duplex, as the new technology is called, was pre-recorded, the audience was left in…

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