25% of Dubai’s Transport Will Be Driverless by 2030
The Dubai Future Foundation has partnered with the Roads and Transport Authority in an effort to keep Dubai in the running for the world’s smartest and most futuristic city. With this in mind, it was...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Isn’t About Intelligence, but Manipulating Humanity
Reading Humanity Imagine a flying saucer lands in Time Square and an alien steps out carrying the game of Go. He walks up the nearest person and says the classic line – “Take me to your best player.”...
View ArticleKeeping up With A.I: Why Humanity Must Cultivate a ‘Hive Mind’
Note: This is part two. Read part one here. There are many who say we can put controls in place that keep A.I. from becoming dangerous, but they’ve missed the fact that these technologies are already...
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Will an Artificial Intelligence Take Your Job? Experts Weigh In
Will A.I Really Take Our Jobs? It’s mostly accepted that many routine or manual “blue collar” jobs have been, and will continue to be, taken over by robots and automated systems. But there are an...
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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White House Preparing For The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Moving Forward Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the way we live our lives, from driving our own cars, to cooking, to shopping…they may even take over our jobs (indeed, they...
View ArticleCreating Synthetic Human-Level Intelligence: Meet The ‘Experts’ of Tomorrow
Everybody loves talking about artificial intelligence, but few people realize how close current analytical approaches are to recreating human-level intelligence (at least in specific situations)....
View ArticleViv, An Incredibly Intelligent Assistant, Almost Makes “Her” a Reality
Getting With the Program The winds of change are blowing through Silicon Valley—not terribly unusual, granted, considering that something new seems to come out of that part of the world several times a...
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Japan is Using Artificial Intelligence To Catch Criminals On The Run
They Can Run, But We’ll Know Where Apprehending criminals on the run proves to be a tricky task, especially in a big city. With several exit strategies readily available, criminals can escape on foot...
View ArticleThis Five-Fingered Robot Hand Is Nimbler Than Your Own
Robot Hands Robots have done and are able to do some of the most amazing tasks we never thought we could trust to a machine. Now, robots have a hand in healthcare, perform delivery tasks by themselves,...
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Machine Learning: AI That Runs on Human Failure Succeeds in Making Crystals
Past Failures The use of machine learning has allowed us to solve many of our problems. It can allow us to effectively manage bandwidth, possibly predict solar flares, automate the rooting out of...
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Now You Can Get Your Kentucky Fried Chicken With a Side of Artificial...
Fast food chains have been scrambling to find a way to cash in on the technological revolution going on around them. From delivery drones to meddling in VR, fast food companies are trying to brand...
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