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Robots and Humans Need to Learn How To “Talk” to One Another
Robots Among Us The rise of automation is prompting all kinds of questions about the future of work for human employees, but there’s also another important consideration at hand — how are we to...
View ArticleFacebook and Intel Are Joining Forces for Artificial Intelligence
Birth of the Nervana Neural Network Processor The future of technology is artificial intelligence, but before it can radically change the world, we need to develop proper hardware that can give the...
View ArticleElon Musk Eviscerates People Who Discuss “A.I. Gods”
Digital Theology Tech news site VentureBeat recently published an article that claimed “that the idea [of humans worshipping AI] is a lot more feasible than you might think.” In response, Elon Musk has...
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Astronomers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Search for Gravitational Lenses
Searching for Gravitational Lenses A gravitational lens is formed when one galaxy is hidden behind another—at least, from our perspective—yet it’s possible to still see the hidden galaxy poking out...
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A New AI is Writing Perverse Horror Fiction
An AI Horror Developers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been dabbling in the arts for a while now. There’s already an AI capable of composing original music — it even has its own album —...
View ArticleFor the First Time Ever, a Robot Was Granted Citizenship
Sophia of Saudi Arabia In an historic move for both human- and robot-kind, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially granted its first-ever robot citizenship. Sophia, the artificially intelligent and...
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The Rights of Synthetic Lifeforms is the Next Great Civil Rights Controversy
Robot Rights Artificially intelligent (AI) robots and automated systems are already transforming society in a host of ways. Cars are creeping closer to Level 5 autonomy, factories are cutting costs by...
View ArticleComputer System Beats CAPTCHA Checks By Thinking More Like a Human
Cracking CAPTCHAs A group of researchers has developed a computer model that’s capable of cracking text-based CAPTCHA keys. Given that the purpose of CAPTCHA is to test whether the entity attempting to...
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Google’s AI Is A “New Paradigm” That Unites Humans and Machines
Google’s AI Investment Google is fully aware of artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential — DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI is one of today’s most well-known examples of its capabilities — and in an earnings call...
View ArticleSoftBank CEO Promises “Super Artificial Intelligences” With IQ of 10,000 in...
The Coming Singularity There are few people who we can genuinely say are keen on bringing about the so-called technological singularity —i.e., that moment when intelligent machines become smarter than...
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This Week in Tech: Oct 21 – 27, 2017
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AI Will Help Judges Score Gymnastics Events at the 2020 Olympics
High-Tech Judging Mentally keeping pace with the twists, flips, and jumps of a top-level gymnast is no easy task. Olympic judges have to be able to watch performance after performance, noting even the...
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The “Father of Artificial Intelligence” Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away
You’ve probably been told that the singularity is coming. It is that long-awaited point in time — likely, a point in our very near future — when advances in artificial intelligence lead to the creation...
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AI Smartphones Will Soon Be Standard, Thanks to Machine Learning Chip
AI Built In Almost every major player in the smartphone industry now says that their devices use the power of artificial intelligence (AI), or more specifically, machine learning algorithms. Few...
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A New AI Detected 17 Times More Earthquakes Than Traditional Methods
Detecting Earthquakes Earthquakes are a lot more common than people may think. Each year, Southern California alone experiences roughly 10,000 earthquakes, and they’re happening more frequently in the...
View ArticleCrappy Valentine’s Day, Robots: AI Is Terrible at (Human) Seduction
Ah, yes, the 14th Day of February, on which you’re maybe anticipating some sweet words from that special someone, or feeling forever alone, or just went and rejected the Hallmark holiday altogether. No...
View ArticleGermany Pledges Not to Use “Killer Robots”
No Killer Robots, Please Autonomous weapons are currently at the core of the debate about the future of artificial intelligence, and some countries are already starting to distance themselves from the...
View ArticleScientists Can’t Replicate AI Studies. That’s Bad News.
The specter of replication The field of artificial intelligence (AI) may soon have to face a ghost that’s haunted many a scientific field lately: the specter of replication. For a research study to be...
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Chinese Farmers Are Using AI to Track and Monitor Pigs
Pig Problems A new artificial intelligence (AI) project from tech conglomerate Alibaba could alleviate some of the myriad problems facing Chinese farmers in the pork industry. China is the world’s...
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Dystopian Robot Tailor Makes Terrible Shirts
A Tailored Task Machine learning and artificial intelligence have been used for several exciting tasks in recent years, including helping fight against mental illness, discovering new exoplanets, and...
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