An AI that writes convincing fake news articles is more accurate than other algorithms at differentiating fake from real news Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2205876-fake-news-generating-ais-could-be-the-best-weapons-to-fight-fake-news/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Is Facebook Already Working On An Encryption Backdoor?
Horst Seehofer, Germany’s federal interior minister, wants to require encryption companies to provide the government with plain text transcripts. One security expert says Facebook is already working on a way to make it happen. An anonymous reader quotes his remarks in Forbes: The reality is that at its annual conference earlier this month, Facebook previewed all of the necessary infrastructure to…
DeepMind’s AI Beats Humans At Quake III Arena
“A team of programmers at a British artificial intelligence company has designed automated ‘agents’ that taught themselves how to play the seminal first-person shooter Quake III Arena, and became so good they consistently beat human beings,” reports AFP: The work of the researchers from DeepMind, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, was described in a paper published in Science…
Astronomers find 18 more Earth-sized exoplanets in Kepler data
A new survey algorithm – called Transit Least-Squares – has just caused the number of known, rocky, Earth-sized worlds orbiting distant stars to grow again, as astronomers add another 18 exoplanets to the list. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/18-more-earth-sized-exoplanets-found-in-kepler-data…
Microsoft Teams With Alphabet’s X and Brilliant For Online Quantum Computing Class
“Learn to build quantum algorithms from the ground up with a quantum computer simulated in your browser,” suggests a new online course. “The very concept of a quantum computer can be daunting, let alone programming it, but Microsoft thinks it can offer a helping hand,” reports Engadget: Microsoft is partnering with Alphabet’s X and Brilliant on an online curriculum for quantum…
How a Professor Beat Roulette, Crediting a Non-Existent Supercomputer
I loved this story. The Hustle remembers how in 1964 a world-renowned medical professor found a way to beat roulette wheels, kicking off a five-year winning streak in which he amassed $1,250,000 ($8,000,000 today).
He noticed that at the end of each night, casinos would replace cards and dice with fresh sets — but the expensive roulette wheels went untouched and often…
An Algorithm May Decide Who Gets Suicide Prevention
An algorithm, it seems, could determine, in some cases, who gets shown lifesaving information, and who doesn’t. From a report: The researchers behind the New Media & Society paper set out to understand this odd quirk of Google’s algorithm, and to find out why the company seemed to be serving some markets better than others. They developed a list of 28…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Graduates To ‘Push Back’ Against Belief-Reinforcing Algorithms
CNBC reports:
Apple CEO Tim Cook challenged Gen Z to clean up the messes Baby Boomers have left behind. “In some important ways, my generation has failed you,” Cook said Saturday in his commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. He emphasized climate change, according to the article — though he also shared a memory about…
Why Play a Music CD? ‘No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms’
Ben Sisario, American author, academic, and journalist who covers the music industry for The New York Times, shares why he still likes to list to compact discs: I try to keep an eye on all the major platforms out there, which means regularly poking around on about a dozen apps. My go-to sources are Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp and Mixcloud, which has…
AI Predicts PUBG Player Placement From Stats and Rankings
An anonymous reader shares a report: Fun as the element of surprise may be, matches in PUBG might be less dynamic than they seem. That’s the assertion of researchers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia, who tested several AI algorithms to predict final player placement in PUBG from in-game stats and initial rankings. As the coauthors…