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Reports Reveal Millions of Jobs are Threatened by Automation: Does This Spell...
Rise of the Machines Not only can robots physically do more than humans, but soon, they could outperform us mentally as well. In fact, tasks once thought of as being quintessentially human, such as...
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Artificial Intelligence and Cyborgs: What Will Humanity Look Like a Century...
This is Part III in a four part series. See Part I here. The World of Tomorrow Samsung has released its “SmartThings Future Living Report.” It’s a serious look at the topography of the future, at...
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Another Win! Google’s Artificial Intelligence Beats the World Champion of Go...
This article was updated 3/10/16 to reflect new developments in this ongoing contest. Well, it has happened again. AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence (AI) program just won its second...
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The Guy Who First Hacked the iPhone and Built a Self-Driving Car Just Got...
George Hotz has built a self-driving car, a 2016 Acura ILX. He claims he was able to do it in about a month in his home garage. The 26-year old hopes to bring the assisted-driving system to market...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Victory: DeepMind AI Seals Historic ‘Go’ Win
A Historic Victory We have our winner. A Go-playing artificial intelligence (AI) known as AlphaGo has secured a win against 18-time world champion Lee Se-dol. The AI just won its third straight game in...
View ArticleMeet Connie—The Hilton’s Newest Hotel Concierge
Meet Connie In a true demonstration of where the future of AI is headed, the Hilton international hotel chain has partnered with IBM to incorporate a new addition to their hotel staff: Connie. Named...
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Facebook Is Training Its Artificial Intelligence to Understand Language
Hitting the Books Reading comprehension is a skill that measures how a person is able to grasp and understand what they are reading. Improving this involves reading and lots of practice to gauge and...
View ArticleGoogle’s Artificial Intelligence Loses Against World Champion for the First Time
Lee Se-dol, the 33-year-old South Korean who is the 18 time world champion of Go, finally beat Google’s artificial intelligence program. It marks his first win in the ongoing challenge. Since the AI...
View ArticleGoogle’s Artificial Intelligence Beats World Champion Again. Wins Go Series 4-1
The Win The Go challenge is finally over. And it seems that humanity lost; however, we did score one victory, so that’s something. Lee Sedol, the 18 time world champion of Go, beat Google’s artificial...
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South Korean Government Announces Nearly $1 Billion in AI Funding
Boosting AI in South Korea Yesterday, the South Korean government announced it would spend 1 trillion won (US $840 million) by 2020 to boost the artificial intelligence industry. This announcement...
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An AI Written Novel Has Passed Literary Prize Screening
The Book Writing AI “The day a computer wrote a novel. The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.” A pretty profound line—considering this sentence is...
View ArticleThis Week in Science: Mar 20 – 27, 2016
3D Printed Heart Replicas, A New Type of Colossal Galaxy, Shutting Down HIV With Gene Editing, And More! The post This Week in Science: Mar 20 – 27, 2016 appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleQuantum Computing Comes Closer, Thanks to a New Qubit Quantum Circuit
The Russians Are Coming The Russian bear is muscling onto the field of quantum computing, and its latest accomplishment—the creation of a two-qubit, feedback-controlled circuit—is a major step in that...
View ArticleThis Week in Tech: Mar 25 – Apr 1, 2016
3D Printed Bones, A Battle Between Top AI, The First-Ever Qubit Fredkin Gate, And More! The post This Week in Tech: Mar 25 – Apr 1, 2016 appeared first on Futurism.
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The Grand Challenge: Managing Bandwidth Through Machine Learning
The Spectrum Collaboration Challenge As the world becomes more connected wirelessly, managing the increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum will become more important. This is what DARPA wants to...
View ArticleNew Processor Chips Promise Faster Neural Network Learning
Accelerating Learning Deep neural networks (DNN), like Google’s DeepMind or the IBM Watson, are amazing machines. They can be taught to do many mental tasks like a human, and they represent our best...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Can Now Teach You to Play the Guitar
Real-Life Guitar Hero When different disciplines such as music and technology come together, they can spark remarkably interesting ideas. Thus, it’s no surprise to see that—for those of you who are...
View ArticleThe Quest For Lifelike Robots
It won't be long before we fail to recognize the robot sitting across from us on the train. Are we ready for it? The post The Quest For Lifelike Robots appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleFacebook’s Artificial Intelligence Can Translate Words into Images, and Vice...
Painting With Words This year, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) unveiled their neural net at the GPU Technology Conference. At the event, they showed off the tech’s ability to create virtual images based on...
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Microscope Uses Artificial Intelligence to Find Cancer Cells
Crossing fields Artificial intelligence is one of the greatest goals of the 21st century. Major developments in AI do astound, machines learning how to turn words into images and how to beat world...
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