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Amazon Is Working on Alexa-Powered Smart Glasses Plus a Home Security System
Alexa-Powered Glasses The Financial Times reports Amazon is currently working on two new products powered by Alexa — the company’s virtual assistant. Citing people familiar with the Seattle-based...
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Jack Ma: The Way We Teach is Going to Make Our Kids Lose Jobs
“Made in Internet” Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba, isn’t afraid of artificial intelligence (AI) or automation. Instead, he thinks we need to prepare in the right ways for the massive,...
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Analysts Predict That Artificial Intelligence Will Be a $14 Billion Industry...
Exponential Growth A recent report asserts that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry will reach a compound annual growth rate of 17.2 percent by 2023. The market is set to swell to a whopping...
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AI Might Match Human Learning Capabilities by 2050, Says Breyer Capital CEO
AI circa 2050 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on track to develop the same learning capabilities as humans, with some believing AI will be able to learn at the same speed as us in a little over 30...
View ArticleA New, Artificially Intelligent Hologram Was Just Born
Can I Help You? VNTANA and Satisfi Labs have announced a new platform that will allow businesses to develop a hologram concierge to be used in business. The project fuses artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence
Everyone Has an Opinion Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of today’s hottest topics. In fact, it’s so hot that many of the tech industry’s heavyweights — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. — have...
View ArticleIn the Future, You Might Get Paid for the Data You Share Online
Precious Data In a highly interconnected globalized world, data is everything. Regarding the economics of “big data,” some people have called data the new oil. Companies get precious bits of...
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Ray Kurzweil Says Machines Won’t Take Over Our Jobs
For Every Loss, an Opportunity Google’s Chief Engineer — and one of today’s most notable futurists — Ray Kurzweil gave an interesting perspective on the looming job displacement due to intelligent...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe it Would Be a Better Place
Will A.I. take us over, and one day look back on this time period as the dawn of their civilization? The post Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe it Would Be a Better Place appeared first on...
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“Holy Grail” Microchip Might Surpass the Power of the Human Brain
Photonic Synapses Scientists at the University of Exeter have made a landmark breakthrough in the quest for the “holy grail” of computing: human-brain-mimicking microchips able to store and process...
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This Week In Tech: Sep 23 – 29, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence Is Our Future. But Will It Save Or Destroy Humanity?
Choosing Sides If tech experts are to be believed, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the world. But those same experts don’t agree on what kind of effect that transformation...
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UN: Artificial Intelligence Could Destabilize World Through Unemployment and War
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robots As it prepares to open the new Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, a headquarters in The Hague which will monitor developments in artificial...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen After We Invent AI Smarter Than Us?
Have we been worrying about the wrong thing this whole time? The post What Will Happen After We Invent AI Smarter Than Us? appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleFarmers Should Start Using Artificial Intelligence. Here’s Why.
Saving Plants With AI Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of identifying diseases in plants; specifically, the cassava plant, which is the most widely grown root on the...
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A World Leader in AI Just Established an Ethics Committee for Artificial...
Ethics and Society Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to have a monumental impact on society. As such, DeepMind, an AI research company now housed under Google parent company Alphabet, has...
View ArticleGoogle’s AI Still Isn’t Smarter Than a First Grader
Measuring Intelligence Apple fans who make use of the iPhone’s famous virtual assistant, Siri, were probably elated to hear a more human-sounding voice emerge as part of iOS 11. While sounding more...
View ArticleIn the World of Tomorrow, You Won’t Just Watch Movies – They’ll Watch You
You’re Being Watched Watching a movie in a darkened theater, your reactions likely went unnoticed. Your widened eyes from an unexpected twist, your jump at a sudden scare, the errant tear as the music...
View ArticleKurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
Kurzweil’s Predictions Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s,...
View ArticleWorld Bank Chief: Robots Have Put Us on a Dangerous “Crash Course”
Education for Automation More and more experts agree that the world job market is in for a disruption that is unprecedented, or at least that hasn’t been seen since the Industrial Revolution. In a...
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