Japanese phone prevents you taking "inappropriate" photos
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A phone which can identify if you are about to take a picture without any clothes on and prevent it has gone on sale in Japan.

Putin’s daughter is head of AI at Moscow State University
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Not bad for an acrobatic rock’n’roll dancer

Katerina Tikhonova, the youngest daughter of Russian President Tsar Vladimir Putin, was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.

AI can be fooled by playing with words
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Boffins come up with text fooler

Changing a single word in your resume can fool AI screening software into classifying you as a person with deep convictions instead of a person with a long list of convictions.

AI might save humans after all
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Boffins asks Hal to sort out antibiotic problems

While people worry about AI taking over the world and killing humans, it looks like it has come up with a powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world.

AI develops human medicine
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Human trials have begun

A medicine developed by artificial intelligence may be used to treat patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.