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Driverless delivery vehicles are now allowed on California streets

by Jack Stewart
Jan 17, 2020
The new rules still block large vehicles, meaning companies testing driverless big rigs have to look elsewhere.
A Nuro delivery bot drops off groceries.
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Illinois cracks down on AI interviews

by Justin Ho
Jan 2, 2020
A new law requires greater disclosure when companies use artificial intelligence technology to sift through job candidates.
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Machines need to be funny if they want to sell us stuff

by Stephanie Hughes
Dec 19, 2019
Tech companies are hiring entertainers to make their chatbots nimble and witty.
The Quartz chatbot is displayed on a cellphone above streams of binary code in this photo illustration.
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Who is really being watched by police body cameras?

by Bennett Purser and Kimberly Adams
Nov 12, 2019
With new facial recognition technology, a tool to surveil the police may be changing its target, Sidney Fussell of The Atlantic says.
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Workers are welcoming AI in the office

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Oct 16, 2019
Robots could be coming to take our jobs, but maybe the ones we don't want to do anyway.
AI could be used for menial tasks, like budgeting or scheduling.
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Hunting for the holy grail of digital language translation

by Andy Uhler
Aug 20, 2019
Machines still have a devil of a time figuring out all the nuance and context of human speech and the written word.
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Can AI make hiring fairer and more efficient?

by Jana Kasperkevic
Aug 14, 2019
AI advocates say it's better for people on both sides.
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Are smart speakers enforcing gender inequity?

by David Brancaccio , Sasa Woodruff and Rose Conlon
Aug 1, 2019
Female voice assistants could be encouraging us to issue orders to women.
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There's a "superhuman" poker-playing AI program. And it could tackle much more than poker.

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 16, 2019
Applications of that type of artificial intelligence could make their way not just into business but also military strategy.
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Shoes the wrong size? Nike has an app for that

by Jack Stewart
May 10, 2019
An app that measures customers' feet will be available on phones and in stores in July.
An app that measures customers' feet will be available on phones and in stores in July.
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