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Google has taken the wraps off Chimera Painter, a web-based tool that lets anyone generate terrifying cryptozoological entities in an interface that looks like MS Paint by way of Diablo. Why, you ask? Well, isnât it obvious? No⊠no, I suppose it isnât. Surely the strangest thing to hit Googleâs AI blog for at least [âŠ]
The program is bringing together Canadaâs national artificial intelligence institutes, Amii, Mila, and the Vector Institute. This marks the first such official collaboration on a national level between the three organizations.
The countryâs third-largest police department notified employees of the ban after BuzzFeed News showed that its officers were using Clearview AI, a facial recognition platform that has taken data from
When you see headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) being used to detect health issues, thatâs usually thanks to a hospital providing data to researchers. But such systems arenât as robust as they could be, because such data is usually only taken from one organization.
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