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The state of AI in 2019

By James Vincent

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The Real-World AI Issue

How artificial intelligence and machine learning are affecting technology right now

By The Verge Staff

Artificial Intelligence

Machines with brains are the future, and The Verge is here to explain it all. From Google and Facebook’s use of machine learning to rule the web, to cutting-edge research and why Alexa still sucks at conversation. We want to dispel the hype of AI and distill what it is you need to know.

Google upgrades its no-coding, in-browser AI trainer to make it more functional

By James Vincent
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OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share

By James Vincent
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Adobe’s latest experiment tracks your body to create super quick animations

By Dami Lee
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This open-source AI tool quickly isolates the vocals in any song

By James Vincent
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Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app

By Dami Lee

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DeepMind’s StarCraft 2 AI is now better than 99.8 percent of all human players

By Nick Statt
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Amazon adds new wake-up lighting and sleep timer features for Alexa-powered smart lights

By Nick Statt
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Facebook trained AI to fool facial recognition systems, and it works on live video

By Nick Statt
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Why 10 percent of all Google Search results are changing

By Dieter Bohn
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Google Duplex launches internationally with limited New Zealand pilot

By Jon Porter
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Security researchers expose new Alexa and Google Home vulnerability

By Jon Porter
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OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed

By Nick Statt
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Google announces new Google Assistant with huge boost to speed

By Nick Statt
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Inside Amazon’s $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human

By James Vincent
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Issa Rae is the next celebrity voice coming to Google Assistant

By Cameron Faulkner
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Google has suspended its controversial ‘field research’ that allegedly scanned homeless people

By Sean Hollister
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iPhone 11’s Deep Fusion camera is available now in iOS 13 public beta

By Nick Statt and Cameron Faulkner

Deep Fusion is supposed to work in the background

McDonald’s is now accepting job applications through Alexa and Google Assistant

By Nick Statt
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Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory

A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world

By Russell Brandom
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100,000 free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice

By Jon Porter
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AI can’t protect us from deepfakes, argues new report

By Zoe Schiffer

Inside Waymo’s strategy to grow the best brains for self-driving cars

The Google spinoff has a head start in AI, but can they maintain the lead?

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Descript’s new podcast editor includes an AI voice double for dubbing over mistakes

By Nick Statt
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See how an AI system classifies you based on your selfie

By Nick Statt
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Adobe Premiere Pro will use AI to reframe videos for all of your social apps

By Dami Lee
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Focos 2.0 turns any photo into a ‘portrait’

By Sam Byford
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Thieves are now using AI deepfakes to trick companies into sending them money

By Nick Statt
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Samsung announces Galaxy Home Mini public beta before full-size speaker has even shipped

By Jon Porter
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Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance

What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match?

By James Vincent
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BBC plans ‘Beeb’ voice assistant for its apps and services

By Jon Porter

It’s been tested on BBC staff with regional accents

Baidu overtakes Google in global smart speaker market

By Sam Byford
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If you attack a robot, it might photograph you in the act

By Jay Peters
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Google Photos now lets you search for text in pictures you’ve taken

By Nick Statt
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YouTube bans robot fighting videos for animal cruelty roughly 10 years too soon

By Jay Peters
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Former Siri chief is leaving Apple to join Microsoft’s AI division

By Nick Statt
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Google Assistant will let you send reminders to friends and family

By Nick Statt
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Microsoft’s new privacy policy admits humans are listening to some Skype and Cortana recordings

By Sean Hollister
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This AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

By Nick Statt
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