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The Race to Prove “Quantum Supremacy” May Be Won in the Next Year
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The Solution to Automation in the Workforce Could Be Retraining
Retraining is the New Recruiting Employers are grappling with how to deal with the new wave of digital labor artificial intelligence (AI) will provide, which requires a huge number of technical roles...
View ArticleToyota is Giving $100 Million in a Venture Capital Unit for AI Startups
Great innovation often springs from brilliant minds, that’s no secret. And, of course, having enough money to bring ideas to life makes a big difference. Toyota is merging brilliance with a big-budget...
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Elon Musk: Unregulated AI Could Be The “Biggest Risk We Face as a Civilization”
A Fundamental Risk As a guest speaker at the 2017 National Governors Association Summer Meeting, entrepreneur and innovator Elon Musk covered a number of topics, including artificial intelligence (AI)....
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AI Researchers Disagree With Elon Musk’s Warnings About Artificial Intelligence
Distorting the Debate? The fear of super-intelligent machines is as real as it gets for Tesla and SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk. He’s spoken about it so many times, but perhaps not in the strongest...
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Google’s AI Fight Club Will Train Systems to Defend Against Future Cyberattacks
Reinforcing AI Systems When artificial intelligence (AI) is discussed today, most people are referring to machine learning algorithms or deep learning systems. While AI has advanced significantly over...
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China Aims to be a Global Frontrunner in AI by 2030
China’s AI Budget, Plan China aims to be a global frontrunner in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, according to the government’s new plan. Released on Thursday, the national AI development plan...
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China’s “Minority Report” Style Plans Will Use AI to Predict Who Will Commit...
Crime Prevention Authorities in China are exploring predictive analytics, facial recognition, and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help prevent crime in advance. Based on behavior...
View ArticleResearchers Develop a New Algorithm to Teach AI to Learn — and How to Adapt
Policy Gradient Methods Many of our current artificial intelligence (AI) systems are largely based on machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks, and are able to perform tasks like human...
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Mark Zuckerberg Responds to Elon Musk’s Warnings About AI
Strong Opinions A conversation has been going on between proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) and those wary of the technology. The former proclaim the wonders of AI, while the latter see future...
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Russia Is Building an AI-Powered Missile That Can Think for Itself
Truly Smart Bombs Today’s most advanced weapons are already capable of “making decisions” using built-in smart sensors and tools. However, while these weapons rely on some sort of artificial...
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5 Futuristic Technologies Set to Change Our Lives Really Soon
Flying warehouses, robot receptionists, smart toilets… do such innovations sound like science fiction or part of a possible reality? Technology has been evolving at such a rapid pace that, in the near...
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Facebook’s Language-Creating AI Bots Are Now Required to Negotiate in English
A Secret Language While developing negotiating chatbot agents, researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab noticed back in June that the artificially intelligent (AI) bots...
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Automation May Lead to a Workless Future for Humans. Here’s How We Can Cope.
The Automation of Everything To add to our apprehensions about the future, it seems we’re running out of letters with which to name successive generations: after Baby Boomers, came generation X, then...
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AI Is Helping This Anti-Aging Startup Uncover Ways for You to Live a Longer,...
A Long and Healthy Life It turns out, writing about your investment ideas before actually putting money into them is a nifty strategy for ensuring success. It’s proven to work for British billionaire...
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Elon Musk Again Voiced Concern Over the Risk of AI at a Tesla Earnings Call
Not Against AI Speaking at the Q&A portion of Wednesday’s conference call with Tesla investors, CEO and founder Elon Musk once again brought up his concerns over the development of artificial...
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We May Have Just Uncovered a Serious Problem With How AI “See”
Visually Impaired Cars? People with certain visual impairments aren’t allowed to drive, for fairly obvious reasons. Now, a study from the University of Washington (UW) has shown that artificial...
View ArticleIBM Just Achieved a Deep Learning Breakthrough
Learning Faster Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are usually run using machine learning algorithms. These operate on what’s called a neural network — systems designed to mimic the...
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Six Life-Like Robots That Prove The Future of Human Evolution is Synthetic
Humanoid robots have come eerily close to overcoming the uncanny valley. With the right features in place, they are almost indistinguishable from their organic counterparts. Almost. The latest...
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DeepMind is Teaching AIs How to Manage Real-World Tasks Through Gaming
“Glorious Combat Is Upon Us” Last year, Google’s DeepMind announced a partnership with Blizzard Entertainment to develop and test artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the popular real-time strategy...
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