Israel outsources shooting Palestinians to AI
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What could go wrong?

Israel's army has recently introduced artificial intelligence-powered robotic guns in the occupied West Bank.

AI can’t translate languages
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This is not an area companies should want to experiment

For a while now companies have been thinking that they can off-load their translation work onto AI-based systems to save a buck – but a top boffin has warned that the software is not up to the task.

HR AI is not helping workplace gender or racial diversity
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AI is as racist as Henry Ford -- ironically any colour so long as it is white

Hopes that AI recruitment tools to screen a high volume of applicants while removing human bias and discrimination, have been dashed after a new study suggests that such AI tools may be “spurious and dangerous.”

Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs
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Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about....  

Play.ht, a voice synthesis company based in Dubai has published a fictional podcast where an AI version of comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan interviews Apple’s founder Steve Jobs.

Deep Mind improves matrices maths
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Improved 50 years worth of maths classes

Google’s DeepMind has been using applied reinforced learning techniques to the multiplication of mathematical matrices and can do it better than some 50 year-old human-made algorithms.