Rappler's latest stories on machine learning
From mythology to machine learning, a history of artificial intelligence
While artificial intelligence now powers smart cities, driverless cars, and home appliances, ethical concerns about the technology have existed for centuries

Developer shuts down app that makes fake nudes of clothed women
DeepNude's developer worries about the potential harm of an app he built 'for fun'

AI correctly predicts Childish Gambino Grammy win
US-based DataRobot compares all previous Song of the Year winners with this year's nominees, correctly predicting Childish Gambino's victory for 'This Is America'
Star Trek style translators step closer to reality at CES 2019
An array of companies at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show are promoting increasingly sophisticated devices that allow people speaking different languages to converse with the help of handheld devices or wireless earpieces

Detecting ‘deepfake’ videos in the blink of an eye
There's a new class of fake content on the horizont: deepfake videos or videos that can make a certain person appear they are saying or doing something they really aren't
Facebook's artificial intelligence learns to see thanks to Instagram hashtags
Facebook director of AI and machine learning Srinivas Narayanan says the company used 3.5 billion public Instagram photos in thousands of hashtagged categories to improve a machine learning algorithm's ability to categorize images for itself

Apple snags Google's top AI executive - report
John Giannandrea, Google's former head of AI and search, represents Apple's bid to keep up with the competition when it comes to its AI technology
G7 nations agree on a 'common vision' for AI
AI industry must bring "most significant benefits possible in the coming years," while safeguarding privacy rights, says Canada's Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos

Google opens AI center in China as competition heats up
Google's move to open a Beijing office focused on fundamental research is an indication of China's AI talent, widely seen as being neck-and-neck with the United States in research capability

Google app gets new newsfeed experience
The new Google feed service uses machine learning algorithms to anticipate what information you d like to receive from news to videos as well as music and feature stories

Google steps up efforts to block extremism, following Facebook
Google general counsel Kent Walker says the company will use a combination of machine learning and human monitoring to keep extremist and terrorism related videos off its services

Microsoft CEO: Tech sector needs to prevent '1984' future
Satya Nadella beckons to developers reminding them that their design choices today are shaping the world of tomorrow
Microsoft aims to make artificial intelligence mainstream
AI takes centerstage on the first day of the tech titan s annual Build conference
Google's RAISR can save you bandwidth on high-res images
Google claims its RAISR tool can cut up to 75 off the bandwidth cost of a downloaded image

Microsoft to build Google Assistant competitor – report
The chatbot – reportedly called Bing Concierge Bot – would be able to talk to people over a number of services such as Skype Messenger SMS Whatsapp and Telegram

Google Photos snafu tags black people as 'Gorillas'
Yonatan Zunger of Google says longer term fixes around linguistics and image recognition are in the works
