When artists and machine intelligence come together

Favorite Throughout history, from photography to video to hypertext, artists have pushed the expressive limits of new technologies, and artificial intelligence is no exception. At I/O 2019, Google Research and Google Arts & Culture launched the Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants, providing a range of support and technical mentorship to

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 28, 2021

A whale of a tale about responsibility and AI

Favorite A couple of years ago, Google AI for Social Good’s Bioacoustics team created a ML model that helps the scientific community detect the presence of humpback whale sounds using acoustic recordings. This tool, developed in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, helps biologists study whale behaviors, patterns,

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 22, 2021

How we’re minimizing AI’s carbon footprint

Favorite The book that led to my visit to Google. When I first visited Google back in 2002, I was a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. My colleague John Hennessey and I were updating our textbook on computer architecture, and Larry Page — who rode a hot-rodded electric scooter

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 21, 2021

How fact checkers and Google.org are fighting misinformation

Favorite Misinformation can have dramatic consequences on people’s lives — from finding reliable information on everything from elections to vaccinations — and the pandemic has only exacerbated the problem as accurate information can save lives. To help fight the rise in minsformation, Full Fact, a nonprofit that provides tools and

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 31, 2021

Helping newsrooms experiment together with AI

Favorite In our JournalismAI report, journalists around the world told researchers they are eager to collaborate and explore the benefits of AI, especially as it applies to newsgathering, production and distribution.  To facilitate their collaboration, the Google News Initiative and Polis – the journalism think tank at the London School

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 23, 2021

What drives Nithya Sambasivan’s fight for fairness

Favorite When Nithya Sambasivan was finishing her undergraduate degree in engineering, she felt slightly unsatisfied. “I wanted to know, ‘how will the technology I build impact people?’” she says. Luckily, she would soon discover the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and pursue her graduate degrees.  She completed her master’s

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Shared by Google AI Technology March 22, 2021

Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes

Favorite It’s winter, it’s the holidays and it’s quarantine-times: It’s the perfect recipe for doing a ton of baking. In fact, U.S. search interest in “baking” spiked in both November and December 2020. But being in the AI field, we decided to dive a little deeper into the trend and  try

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Shared by Google AI Technology January 5, 2021