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To Make a Deepfake: Richard Nixon and Our Information Ecosystem

July 24, 2020

A shockingly believable AI-generated video of Richard Nixon shines new light on a quickly evolving technology with sizable implications, both creative and destructive, for our current digital information ecosystem

May 5, 2020

Media Bits and Bytes - May 5, 2020

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Why Press Freedom Day? Is encrypted messaging the future of social media? And more media news

February 3, 2020

How the President Became a Drone Operator From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare

Allegra Harpootlian TomDispatch

Everything we thought we knew about drone warfare -- and America’s wars more broadly -- is about to be thrown out the window. Under the circumstances, one thing is predictable: ever more civilians are going to die in America’s wars.

January 14, 2020

Media Bits and Bytes - January 14, 2020

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Burning Bernie, Facebook's Future, "Jeopardy!" in Jeopardy, The New "Party of Five," and more

January 3, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | January 3, 2020

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Bernie Sanders' Remarks on Iran Following Suleimani Asassination. Vanishing Voters of Georgia. Why Drugs Are So Expensive. Google and Amazon Are Now in the Oil Business. Cadets Fired for Giving Nazi Salute.

Google and Amazon Are Now in the Oil Business

January 3, 2020

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are teaming up with Big Oil to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground using machine learning technology

AI Learns to Play Hide and Seek

November 8, 2019

Agents discover progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. This suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.

October 11, 2019

Why Deep-Learning AIs Are so Easy to Fool

Douglas Heaven Nature

Brilliant at what they do, taken into unfamiliar terrain Deep Neural Networks are fundamentally brittle. AI researchers say they are making progress in fixing the flaws, but acknowledge that they’re still groping for new techniques.

September 13, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | September 13, 2019

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Edward Snowden in Exile: ‘You Have to Be Ready to Stand for Something.’ Musicians Love Making Fun of Bob Dylan. Beto O'Rourke: 'We're going to take away your AR-15.' John Oliver: Filibuster. How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land.

Edward Snowden in Exile: ‘You Have to Be Ready to Stand for Something’

September 13, 2019

Edward Snowden has spent the last six years living in exile in Russia and has now decided to publish his memoirs, Permanent Record. The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill, who helped break Snowden's story in 2013, has been given exclusive access to interview him

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