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Facebook AI moderator confused videos of mass shootings and car washes

Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded an optimistic note three years ago when he wrote about the progress his company was making in automated moderation tools powered by artificial intelligence. […]

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IBM says AI can help track carbon pollution across vast supply chains

Enlarge / A container ship sails off the coast of Thailand. (credit: iStock ) Finding sources of pollution across vast supply chains may be one of the largest barriers to eliminating carbon pollution. For some sources like electricity or transportation, it’s relatively easy. But for others like agriculture or consumer electronics, tracing and quantifying greenhouse […]

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These virtual obstacle courses help real robots learn to walk

A clip from the simulation where virtual robots learn to climb steps. An army of more than 4, 000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it may point the way for machines to learn new tricks. The virtual robot army was developed by researchers from ETH Zurich in […]