AI is transforming wildlife research by automating some tasks typically done manually by researchers, like identifying individual animals from photos

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/artificial-intelligence-counts-wild-animals/

From analyzing animal photos to combing through YouTube, new software is harnessing data never before accessible to scientists.

How AI Agents Cheat

https://kottke.org/18/11/how-ai-agents-cheat

A look at AI-related research for predicting earthquakes by using seismic data, which scientists say is similar to the audio data used to train voice assistants - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/earthquake-predictions-artificial-intelligence.html

Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000 - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863

The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.

Future elections may be swayed by intelligent, weaponized chatbots - MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611832/future-elections-may-be-swayed-by-intelligent-weaponized-chatbots/

The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.

DeepMind AI matches health experts at spotting eye diseases

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/13/deepmind-ai-moorfields-eye-hospital-disease/

The tool searches OCT scans for over 50 eye diseases including macular degeneration.

In addition, the system can show its workings, allowing eye care professionals to scrutinize the final assessment.

Machine Learning Can Identify the Authors of Anonymous Code – WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-identify-anonymous-code/

The researchers don’t rely on low-level features, like how code was formatted. Instead, they create “abstract syntax trees,” which reflect code’s underlying structure, rather than its arbitrary components.

IQ testing digital AI assistants

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/25/siri-on-ios-latest-test/

Google Assistant answered 85.5 % … correctly and understood all of them, Siri answered 78.5 % correctly and misunderstood 11. Alexa correctly answered 61.4 % and misunderstood 13, while Cortana correctly answered 52.4 % and misunderstood 19.

Wimbledon 2018: AI uses player emotions to edit highlights - BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44544799

Wimbledon and its digital partner IBM have fine-tuned their artificial intelligence (AI) systems this year to help automatically edit the top action.

Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI - BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008

The psychopathic algorithm was created by a team at the MIT, as part of an experiment to see what training AI on data from “the dark corners of the net” would do to its world view.