Artificial intelligence (AI) contributes significantly to good in the world. From reducing pollution to making roads safer with self-driving cars to enabling better healthcare through medical big-data analysis, AI still has plenty of untapped potential. Unfortunately, just like any technology in the…

As a veteran of way too many zoom conferences, It’s perhaps not all that surprising that I would have discovered one of the cooler features of the app – the ability to create an algorithmic green screen that lets you superimpose both…

This method exposes fake images created by computer algorithms rather than by humans. They look deceptively real, but they are made by computers: so-called deep-fake images are generated by machine learning algorithms, and humans are pretty much unable to distinguish them from…

Fifty-one years ago this week, the first moon landing took place. Two astronauts from Apollo 11 walked around on the lunar surface for a couple of hours, changing space exploration forever. Most people around the world accept this statement as truth, but…

THIS MONTH, ADVERTISING giant WPP will send unusual corporate training videos to tens of thousands of employees worldwide. A presenter will speak in the recipient’s language and address them by name, while explaining some basic concepts in artificial intelligence. The videos themselves will be…

Technology is powerful, it can make you believe in something that doesn’t even exist! If you thought technology is all about the positives, then welcome to the dark realities it has to offer. Technology can be dangerous, digital representations, manipulated videos pave…

In a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Adobe Research describe the Swapping Autoencoder, a machine learning model designed specifically for image manipulation. They claim it can modify any image in a variety ways, including texture swapping, while…

A network of fictional journalists, analysts, and political consultants has been used to place opinion pieces favorable to certain Gulf states in a range of media outlets, an investigation from The Daily Beast has revealed. At least 19 fake personas were used to author op-eds…

After months of struggle with deceptively altered videos, Facebook finally announced last week that it would ban the posting of Deepfakes on the social media platform as part of a new policy on manipulated media. Deepfakes refer to images and videos that…

The technologies that generate deepfake content is at the forefront of manipulating humans. While the research developing these algorithms is fascinating and will lead to powerful tools that enhance the way people create and work, in the wrong hands, these same tools…