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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
China
Chinese farmer uses AI to save hundreds of newborn goats
A man who once worked in the finance industry in Shanghai now uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help reduce the mortality rate of goats g...
Bryan Ke
Culture
AI creates images depicting Pikachu in 1920s Tokyo
An image-generating AI program created black and white photographs of what Pikachu might look like if it existed in Tokyo during the 1920s....
Rebecca Moon
Chinese researchers develop AI that can read minds and determine party loyalty, report reveals
Chinese researchers have reportedly developed artificial intelligence (AI) that can read the minds of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officia...
Carl Samson
Technology
Google pauses new feature that suggested ‘inclusive language’ replacements after heavy criticism
Google has temporarily disabled the new AI-powered “inclusive language” feature that flagged potentially inappropriate language and suggest...
Ryan General
Social Media
AI-created images of Pikachu are the farthest thing from kawaii
Illustrations of a Pikachu drawn by artificial intelligence shocked social media users with its creepiness. Pikachu’s nightmare: Twitter us...
Michelle De Pacina
Opinion
Automation is a Bigger Threat to Millennials Than We Think and Andrew Yang’s UBI is the Solution
During this challenging, unstable time, every story on the news seems to be pointing to a new threat to our existence. Between video clips o...
Jin Hyun
News
China Deploys First AI Robot Police That Tackles Criminals And Now We’re Living in ‘Black Mirror’
The city of Handan in China’s Hebei province has unleashed its futuristic robot police force that is equipped with the latest artificial int...
Silicon Valley’s Latest Billion Dollar Startup is Run By a 22-Year-Old
Scale AI, which is developing software to annotate images for training artificial intelligence for robots, self-driving cars and language pr...
Khier Casino
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...
World
China’s President is the ‘Most Dangerous Opponent of Free Societies,’ Says Billionaire George Soros
Billionaire George Soros has called Chinese President Xi Jinping “the most dangerous enemy” of free societies during the World Economic Foru...
Asia
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...
Singaporean Scientists Taught a Robot to Build IKEA Furniture Better Than Humans
Scientists from Singapore managed to teach a pair of robotic arms to put together a chair from Ikea. The study, published in Science Robotic...
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, ...
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...
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak Warn of Impending Killer Robot Wars
The Future of Life Institute (FLI), backed by leaders in their fields like Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Noam Chomsky, have co-signed an op...
Riley Schatzle