An AI Created This Portrait of Hunger in America by Analyzing 1,000 People in Need A new PSA is using artificial intelligence to challenge people's perceptions of hunger as a problem faced only by those living on the streets or in distant, underdeveloped countries. Instead, advocates say, hunger afflicts 37 million Americans, in the kinds
As 2020 Election Nears, Twitter Bots Have Only Gotten Better at Seeming Human Politics-focused Twitter bots that warped news coverage and online discussions of the 2016 election have only grown more sophisticated in the few years since, according to a new study from computer scientists at the University of Southern California. The researchers first identified
IBM Serves Up an Ace With AI at the US Open For anyone attending the U.S. Open, the tournament has become much bigger than simply watching the tennis matches. Between activations from American Express and all the different food concessions, there's plenty of action happening off the courts, too. IBM, which helps the U.S. Tennis
As Deepfakes Get Faker, What Does This Mean for Our Future? Editor's note: Industry consultant Shelly Palmer is taking his popular newsletter and turning it into an Adweek article once per week in an ongoing column titled "Think About This." Late last year, I wrote about deepfakes and how, for about 200,000 years, we have
