Machine Learning Could Make Manufacturing New Medicines Easier for Synthetic...
Predicting Reactions Mixing chemicals in a laboratory isn’t as easy as it looks on TV. Researchers can’t just pour everything in one beaker and hope for the best. Developing a new chemical compound —...
View ArticleMaking AI More Secret Could Prevent Us From Making It Better
Should the future of our society hinge on a secret? A new report suggests that, in order to ensure the safety of a society increasingly reliant upon artificial intelligence, we need to make sure that...
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The Verdict Is In: AI Outperforms Human Lawyers in Reviewing Legal Documents
AI v. Human Lawyers It’s hard to ignore the ways artificial intelligence (AI) has already bested humans, from making incredibly convincing internet videos to beating humanity’s best Go players. AI is...
View ArticleAI Will Lead the Charge Developing Quantum Computers
So Small, So Elusive If you’re not a physicist, the concept of “quantum” will likely confuse you, or simply put you off. But even for experts, the quantum world can be complex. Luckily, in a world...
View ArticleNew Crime-Predicting AI May Be Prone to Bias Just Like Humans
On Data, Crime, and AI An artificial intelligence (AI) designed to help investigate gang crimes has worried experts in the field about its serious ethical implications. The algorithm, which was...
View ArticleAI Cameras Are Here. Here Are Three Ways We Could Use Them.
The future has arrived: cameras are gaining artificial intelligence (AI). Cameras can already connect to wi-fi, and have been an integral part of our smart devices for years, but they haven’t had...
View ArticleNew Algorithm Lets AI Learn From Mistakes, Become a Little More Human
An AI That Looks Back In recent months, researchers at OpenAI have been focusing on developing artificial intelligence (AI) that learns better. Their machine learning algorithms are now capable of...
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What Are YOU Looking At? Mind-Reading AI Knows
Japanese scientists know what you’re looking at — but don’t worry, there’s no need to close your other browser tabs yet. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) system alongside fMRI scans, researchers...
View ArticleYour Next Real Estate Agent Might Be a Robot
The next time you buy a house, it might not be from a real estate agent. At least, not an agent of flesh and blood. Real estate agencies and some startups have started employing robots to do some of...
View ArticleToyota Is Launching a $2.8 Billion Self-Driving Car Company
Toyota has invested ¥300 billion ($2.8 billion) in a new Tokyo-based company that will build software for self-driving cars, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. The Toyota...
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A New AI-Powered App Transcribes Your Conversations in Real-Time
Transcription on the Go If you have to deal with transcribing interviews as part of your daily work (like we do), you’ll find a welcome partner in the new Otter app. Developed by former employees from...
View ArticleAI Predicts Coding Mistakes Before Developers Make Them
Ubisoft, the French video game company, debuted a new artificial intelligence (AI) that proactively flags coding bugs at its recent developer conference in Montreal. The tool, named Commit Assistant,...
View ArticleStartup to Use AI to Improve Workplace Communication, but Will Probably Just...
Thanks to digital tools equipped with artificial intelligence, we’re (theoretically) better than we used to be. Devices and apps track our workouts, our sleep patterns, our periods, our sexual...
View ArticleFour Takeaways From Amazon Alexa’s Bone-Chilling, Unprompted Laughter
Reports of Amazon’s virtual artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Alexa behaving strangely have recently made the rounds on the news and social media. Several Alexa-enabled devices have reportedly...
View ArticleIt’s Really Hard to Give AI “Common Sense”
In humans, common sense is relatively easy to identify, albeit a bit difficult to define. Get in line at the end of it? That’s common sense. Grab the red-hot end of a metal poker that was in the fire...
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This Bot Wants To Pay People When Their Flights Get Cheaper
Remember that online artificial intelligence (AI) that helped people dispute their parking tickets? Well, DoNotPay — the parking lawyer chatbot developed by Stanford University student Joshua Browder a...
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OpenAI Wants to Make Safe AI, but That May Be an Impossible Task
True artificial intelligence is on its way, and we aren’t ready for it. Just as our forefathers had trouble visualizing everything from the modern car to the birth of the computer, it’s difficult for...
View ArticleThe Oscar for Best Visual Effects Goes To: AI
The next breakout star in Hollywood might be an AI named Arraiy. Arraiy is a computer vision and machine learning platform specifically designed for film and television effects. Arraiy’s creators are...
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A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias
Want your news delivered with the icy indifference of a literal robot? You might want to bookmark the newly launched site Knowhere News. Knowhere is a startup that combines machine learning...
View ArticleThe Military Wants to Make AI That Mimics the Human Brain. Experts Know...
No matter how many times you may hear that AI is going to make us human slaves and take over the world, it’s kind of hard to believe when we’re constantly confronted with AI that’s consistently stupid....
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