artificial intelligence
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How to Turn Off Annoying Command Responses on Your Google Home
1You usually want a response when asking your Google Home device a question. When you issue a command, however — say, telling your Google Assistant to turn on the lights — you don’t really need a vocalized answer. If you find it distracting when your Google Home responds out loud to every command, there are…
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How to Spot a Deepfake Without Even Watching the Video
Deepfakes are videos that glue one person’s face onto another’s body, making the former look like they’re saying or doing something that they never actually did — even if it’s something as harmless as Tom Cruise talking to the camera and hitting a golf ball. They’re hard to spot just from watching the video, but…
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This Text Adventure Game Feels Like A Lucid Dream
Artificial intelligence isn’t just for dystopian algorithms; it also makes for creative entertainment, like when this AI wrote beginning sentences for a bunch of nonexistent novels. Now, an AI stands ready to guide you through an old school text adventure game, a game that doesn’t exist until you start trying to play it.
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How YouTube Is Endangering Your Children
A New York Times report has found that YouTube’s algorithm has built what journalist Max Fisher describes as “a vast audience — maybe unprecedented — for child sexual exploitation.” It has done so by suggesting home movies of semi-nude kids to viewers who have watched other home movies of semi-nude kids, creating an entire catalogue…