Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US.
A US teenager was handcuffed by armed police after an artificial intelligence (AI) system mistakenly said he was carrying a gun - when really he was holding a packet of crisps.
Hertz deployed an AI vehicle scanner. Then came the CX meltdown.
Hertz’s AI vehicle scanner was supposed to improve the vehicle damage inspection process. What went wrong?
AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren’t Happy.
During the pandemic, insurers accelerated the use of automated tools to estimate repair costs. Garage operators say the numbers can be wildly inaccurate.
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match.
Ms. Woodruff is the sixth person to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of facial recognition technology used by police.
OpenAI's state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by hadnwritten text.
By exploiting the model's ability to read text robustly, we find that even photographs of hand-written text can often fool the model
Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban.
All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update.
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
Popular social media apps use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors.
40,000 analysed by vision model showed it made more mistakes classifying people under 18 than over 18. For people ages 0 to 2, the model often classified them as being between 12 and 18 years old.
New Attack Can Make AI ‘See’ Whatever You Want.
Researchers have demonstrated a new way of attacking artificial intelligence computer vision systems, allowing them to control what the AI “sees.” The research shows that the new technique, called RisingAttacK, is effective at manipulating all of the most widely used AI computer vision systems.
The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash.
Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes reveals that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the roads and putting the public at risk.
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
The AI community, in particular, rushed to develop software that many believed would allow hospitals to diagnose or triage patients faster, bringing much-needed support to the front lines—in theory.
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet.
A growing number of schools across the country use AI-powered surveillance to detect guns and contraband, all in the name of making schools safer.
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away.
Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
UK police forces lobbied to use biased facial recognition technology.
Police forces successfully lobbied to use a facial recognition system known to be biased against women, young people, and members of ethnic minority groups, after complaining that another version produced fewer potential suspects.
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts.
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.
Man 'branded a thief' after shop's facial recognition error.
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.
These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work?
Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.
AI Misses Nearly One-Third of Breast Cancers, Study Finds.
A new medical study is raising questions about the reliability of artificial intelligence in breast cancer detection, revealing that nearly one in three cancers may be overlooked by current AI tools. But researchers say a specialised MRI technique could help close that gap.
Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica.
A Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, according to the company. Waymo told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the child — whose age and identity are not currently public — sustained minor injuries.