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The Next Face of AI – The Wall Street Journal

The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on health, money, cities and more. This month is Artificial Intelligence, online starting July 2 and in the paper on July 9.

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Kevin Hand/The Wall Street Journal

How Computers With Humanlike Senses Will Change Our Lives With help from artificial intelligence and special sensors, next-generation robots will be able to perform tasks ranging from understanding speech in a noisy environment to sniffing out phony wine.

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Jamie Chung for The Wall Street Journal

Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters Hackers are pioneering new ways of tricking facial-recognition systems, from cutting the eyes out of photos to making a portrait ‘nod’ with artificial intelligence.

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Brian Stauffer

Your Next Car May Anticipate Your Needs—and Let You Add Features on the Fly From peppier engines for road trips to heated steering wheels in winter, auto makers are developing intelligent vehicles that spot motorists’ wants and let them subscribe to options after the sale.

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Justin Metz

Buzz Off, Bees. Pollination Robots Are Here. Advances in artificial intelligence are helping some startups develop another way to pollinate plants, which could increase yield compared with insects and human workers.

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Mario Wagner

After Backlash, Predictive Policing Adapts to a Changed World Software developers and city governments are rethinking how and when to use algorithms that promise to curb crime.

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Chase Vorhees for The Wall Street Journal

Could AI Keep People ‘Alive’ After Death? Experts are exploring ways artificial intelligence might confer a kind of digital immortality, preserving the personalities of the departed in virtual form and then allowing them to evolve.

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Ruth Gwily

A Robot That Finds Your Lost Stuff and More AI-Enabled Gadgets to Come Researchers are working on a wave of sophisticated devices for the home, from toilets that screen for viruses to a ‘Roomba on steroids’ that might detect your TV remote in the couch. Get The Future of Everything in your inbox. Sign up here for the weekly newsletter.

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