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Entertainment
Aespa’s fictional AI system Nævis to debut as an artist at SXSW
Artificial intelligence (AI) system Nævis, from K-pop girl group Aespa’s fictional lore, will debut as an artist at the group’s upcomi...
Daniel Anderson
Education
College student develops new app that detects AI-written essays
A university student has developed an app that can detect if a written work was authored by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT...
Ryan General
Art
‘An insult to life itself’: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki condemns AI art
A clip of legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki reacting to artificial intelligence (AI) art has reentered online discourse s...
Editorial Staff
Japan
Japan creates laughing robot that can ‘coexist alongside people’
A team of researchers led by Inoue Koji, an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics in Japan, recentl...
Bryan Ke
News
AI’s prediction of what last selfies on Earth would look like are total nightmare fuel
A TikTok account that shares “disturbing” AI-generated images recently uploaded a video predicting what the last selfie on Earth could look...
Rebecca Moon
China
China develops AI ‘prosecutor’ that can charge citizens with crimes with ‘97% accuracy’
China has developed an artificial intelligence capable of charging people with more than 97% accuracy, replacing prosecutors “to a certain e...
Carl Samson
Japanese man is the first suspect ever arrested for using deepfake tech to de-pixelate porn
A Japanese man was arrested on Monday after he effectively removed pixelated parts in censored domestically produced porn videos using artif...
Singapore MOH chatbot’s response to a user who said that his son had COVID: ‘You should practice safe sex’
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has temporarily stopped its “Ask Jamie” chatbot on Monday after it gave out inappropriate and unrelated...
Popular South Korean influencer who’s landed over 100 sponsorships is not actually a real person
Rozy is a South Korean social media personality whose ads are racking up millions of views on YouTube, and she isn’t even a real person. AI-...
Asia
Creepy AI Tech From China Can Identify You 50 Meters Away With Your Back Turned, Face Covered
China is testing a new monitoring technology that could identify a person even when they are not facing the camera, just by analyzing the wa...
Technology
The World’s Most Watched TV Show is Going to Be Hosted by AI Next Week
Four artificial intelligences will host the world’s most-watched TV show in China next week, marking a first in history just in time for the...
China Debuts Their First ‘AI Anchor’ That Speaks English
Xinhua News Agency recently debuted its first-ever English speaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) news anchor, which can read and deliver the...
Chinese Student Creates AI That Can Turn Photos into Anime
An undergraduate student from China’s Fudan University showcased a new artificial intelligence (AI) software that can turn regular human pho...
China Shuts Down 12 Dating Apps After ‘Women’ Turn Out to Be AI Bots
Chinese authorities shut down multiple dating apps after hundreds of thousands of customers complained that the sexy women they were chattin...
Japanese AI Robot Takes University Entrance Exam, Exposes Alarming Flaw in Human Education
A robot with an advanced artificial intelligence bested 80% of human students in the recent Tokyo University entrance exam. Interestingly, ...
AI Robot Takes China’s Notoriously Difficult ‘SAT’ Exam, Fails Miserably
A Chinese artificially intelligent robot took only 22 minutes to finish China’s notoriously grueling national college entrance exam, b...
China’s ‘Robot Goddess’ AI Does Live Interview in English, Fails Miserably
Jia Jia, the realistic-looking, smart humanoid robot from China, was recently interviewed by an American journalist, putting her English com...
Chinese Engineer ‘Marries’ AI Robot After Having No Luck With Women
Chinese engineer Zheng Jiajia felt so lonely after not having any luck finding a human wife that he decided to marry a robot he built. The 3...
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AI YouTuber Who Talks About Random Stuff in Japanese Becomes an Internet Sensation
If you’re bored of watching the same old YouTubers, you might want to look up A.I. Kizuma. A.I. Kizuma is “artificial intelligen...
Chinese Factory Replaces 90% Of Its Workers With Robots, Productivity Increases 250%
A factory in Dongguan, China, does not regret laying off almost all of its people in favor of artificial intelligence. Changying Precision T...
Mysterious ‘Go’ Master Who’s Been Destroying World’s Top Players Was a Google AI All Along
Go, a strategy board game which originated from China more than 2,500 years ago, has relatively simple rules, but with very complex gameplay...
Mark Zuckerberg is Teaching Chinese to His Daughter Using Jarvis
In a recent Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg showed off his personal artificial intelligence program designed to help run his family’s house a...
Lonely? You Can Now Live With a Holographic Anime Friend
Here’s a Japanese twist on the typical smart home device: a holographic anime-style character that responds to its user’s conver...
Robot Sex Conference Banned in Malaysia Moves to London
The international conference on sex robots previously slated to be held in the Malaysia will now be moved to London after the country banned...
Toyota Releases Adorable AI Robot That Critiques Your Driving Skills
Toyota has developed a talking robot companion designed to keep motorists company during trips. Described by Toyota Motors as “a minia...
Microsoft Japan’s AI Schoolgirl Just Became Suicidal and Everyone’s Worried
Rinna, an AI “schoolgirl” developed by Microsoft Japan, shocked followers after going from being ecstatic to becoming suicidal &...
China Sends AI Reporter to Cover the Rio Olympics — Blows Every Journalist Out of the Water
A robot news reporter from China, which delivered speedy and efficient reports during the recently concluded Olympics in Rio, was able to pr...
Chinese Man With a ‘Super Brain’ is Now Helping the Police Fight Crime
A Chinese man who was able to out-think an advanced AI on a reality television show is now using his exceptional mental skills to help polic...
Law Firm Becomes the First to Hire Artificially Intelligent Lawyer
Law firm Baker & Hostetler has become the first official law firm to announce that they have hired an artificially intelligent lawyer na...
Microsoft Creates ‘Teen Girl’ AI – Becomes a Hitler-Loving Sex Robot Within 24 Hours
Microsoft recently discovered the shocking result of introducing their newest AI chat robot modeled after a teen girl to the internet —...
Google Asked Its Artificial Intelligence to ‘Dream’ and the Results Are Spectacular
Google’s most advanced artificial intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, has quite possibly demonstrated the beginnings of an imagination...
Jacob Wagner
Interviews
Why this CEO Wants Everyone to Have a Human-Like Robot for Less than an iPad
In case you were concerned, robots will not be taking over the world any time soon. By the time you are older, however, you may be seeing th...