Will AI Blur the Lines Between Physical and Virtual Reality?
The Notion of Reality As technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), big data, 5G, and the internet of things (IoT) advance over the next generation, they...
View ArticleBroadway Hit “Hamilton” Has a Plan to Stop Bots From Buying up Tickets
The Scalper Sisters This week, musical theater fans can increase their chances of scoring a ticket to “Hamilton” at face value by simply proving that they’re not a bot. From now until Friday night at...
View ArticleHead of IBM Watson Says AI Will Augment Human Beings
Amplifying Human Reach PC Mag recently interviewed Rob High, IBM Watson’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Thanks to High’s experience with Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI)...
View ArticleThe World’s First Album Composed and Produced by an AI Has Been Unveiled
A New Kind of Composer “Break Free” is the first sone released in a new album by Taryn Southern. The song, indeed, the entire album, features an artist known as Amper—but what looks like a typical...
View ArticleElon Musk Leads AI Experts With Letter Urging UN to Consider Threat of...
A Clear Danger Elon Musk has long been warning us against the dangers he believes to be inherent to unregulated artificial intelligence (AI) development. He’s called the threat humankind’s biggest...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Research Venture Has Trained AI To Teach Itself
Boosting Performance As part of its effort to find better ways to develop and train “safe artificial general intelligence,” OpenAI has been releasing its own versions of reinforcement learning...
View ArticleGermany Drafts World’s First Ethical Guidelines for Self-Driving Cars
Ethical Intelligence Germany has drafted the world’s first set of ethical guidelines for self-driving car programming. The guidelines were developed by the Ethics Commission at the German Ministry of...
View ArticleThe Next Five Game of Thrones Chapters Have Been “Leaked” by an AI
Move Over, George Warning: This post is dark and full of spoilers for the extended A Song of Ice and Fire book series on which the hit HBO show Game of Thrones is based. More than six years have passed...
View ArticleResearchers Prove AI Can Complete Demanding, Expert-Level Astrophysics Tasks
Neural Networks in Action Researchers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have just taught the world something brand new about neural networks, a kind of artificial...
View ArticleMillennials Believe That Technology Is Creating Jobs, Not Taking Them Away
Rise of the Machines The rise of automation and artificial intelligence has prompted all kinds of questions about what the future holds for human workers. However, a new study conducted by the World...
View ArticleExperts Warn That AI-Enhanced Cyberattacks Are An Imminent Threat
The Future of Hacking There are many benefits that can come with the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI), but experts believe such widespread acceptance will lead to more...
View ArticleA New Alexa-Like System Is Helping Robots Understand Context Clues
The Language of Context Unlike human communication, which involves a variety of nuances and subtleties, today’s robots understand only the literal. While they can learn by repetition, for machines,...
View ArticleAI Is About to Drastically Change
Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) and its corresponding technology all hinge on our human understanding of what intelligence is. One thing that we, however obvious, know for sure is...
View ArticleExpert: We Can Create a Great Future With AI If We Start Planning Now
Life 3.0 While there are people on both sides of the conversation regarding artificial intelligence and its impact on the modern world, there is one person who is unequivocally enthusiastic about it:...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: Country That Leads in AI Development “Will be the Ruler of...
Who Has the Bots Makes the Rules Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday at a meeting of students in Yaroslavl, Russia about the development of artificial intelligence (AI). In a rather...
View ArticleWhat Will Life Look Like in 2030 Thanks to Artificial Intelligence?
A Centennial Intelligence Imagine you live to be one hundred years old, only to discover that several generations of experts surreptitiously recorded your entire life, from golden childhood, to the...
View ArticleThis AI Analyzes Spacetime Distortions 10 Million Times Faster Than Current...
A Fraction of a Second Gravitational lensing is a curious phenomenon. Not only does it demonstrate properties associated with the invisible dark matter, gravitational lensing is a distortion or bending...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Report: China’s AI Sector is Catching Up to the U.S.
China’s AI Revolution A new report from Goldman Sachs indicates that China now has the resources, ambitious plans, and high-level government support to potentially create an artificial intelligence...
View ArticleElon Musk: Competition for AI Superiority at National Level Will Be the “Most...
AI Goes to War On Monday morning, in response to an article from The Verge discussing Vladimir Putin’s remarks on artificial intelligence (AI), Elon Musk took to Twitter to share his views. China,...
View ArticleFacebook Has Developed AI That Can React Naturally to Human Expression
Do You Read Me? Most of us are able to intuitively understand human facial expressions: in conversation, millions of tiny muscle movements change our eyes, mouth, head position and more to signal to...
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