Deepmind rubbish at spotting sexual harassment
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In this case it is a human problem

It is starting to look like the humans behind AI are worse than the actual technology as a former DeepMind employee has blasted the AI lab for being “grossly inadequate" in dealing with internal sexual harassment.

Google translators forbidden to use the word “war”
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At least in Russia

For a while now we have pointed out that AI based translation services are unreliable, but it turns out that they are vulnerable to political pressure too.  

Picsart uses AI to create new fonts
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Is there anything AI can’t do

Picsart, a social design community and app is building AI-generated fonts for creators.

Microsoft upgrades translation service with AI
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More to be lost in translation

For a while now there has been a myth that AI can operate good language translation services.

Humans think Deep Fakes are more trustworthy than real people
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Political fall out

Scientific American reports on a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on the effectiveness of deep fakes.