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Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
A rhetorical question for you. Let’s say you’re an AI scientist, and you’ve found the holy grail of your field — you figured out how to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s a truly...
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AI Couldn’t Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own
AI DEFEAT. AI may be able to best humans at games like Go and chess and poker. But for the cooperative strategy video game DOTA 2, AI still can’t beat the pros — at least not yet. That’s the major...
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The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand
A NEW KIND OF TEACHER. It’s back to school, and you know what that means — time to fire up the computer that teaches you! That’s what primary school students in New Zealand have to look forward to,...
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If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest...
Pretty much every tech startup that boasts its use of artificial intelligence is actually focused on an ultra-specific problem. Visual effects company Digital Domain has an AI algorithm that automates...
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Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever...
There are fears that tend to come up when people talk about futuristic artificial intelligence — say, one that could teach itself to learn and become more advanced than anything we humans might be able...
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Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely
THE SECONDARY SHOCKS. The destruction that a large earthquake can cause often doesn’t end when the ground stops shaking. Many produce aftershocks, smaller tremors hours or even days later caused by the...
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New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers
When you return to school after summer break, it may feel like you forgot everything you learned the year before. But if you learned like an AI system does, you actually would have — as you sat down...
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Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI
Sophisticated AI could make the world a better place. It might let us fight cancer and improve healthcare around the world, or simply free us from the menial tasks that dominate our lives. That was the...
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be The Key To Longevity [Affiliate]
The following editorial content was originally published here. What if we could generate novel molecules to target any disease, overnight, ready for clinical trials? Imagine leveraging machine learning...
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Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own
If artificial intelligence were to run the world, it wouldn’t be so bad — it could objectively make decisions on exactly the kinds of things humans tend to screw up. But if we’re gonna hand over the...
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The Most Far-Out Statements From Elon Musk’s Wide-Ranging Interview With Joe...
“You probably can’t [smoke] because of stockholders, right?” Rogan asks. “I mean it’s legal, right?” Musk replies. Elon Musk spent yesterday evening in a rambling conversation with comedian and podcast...
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Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans
THE NEXT BATTLEFIELD. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been gradually kicking human butt in competitions. Now, it will have a new venue in which to (try to) assert its dominance over humanity: drone...
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Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect...
In 2016, some Google employees shared a video that was both inspiring and unsettling. In the nine-minute film dubbed “The Selfish Ledger,” a narrator calmly, compelling presents the idea that a ledger...
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If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses
Experts and optimists can’t help but extoll the positive effects that artificial intelligence (AI) may have on our future. It will revolutionize healthcare! It will make ordering things from Amazon...
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AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens
ALIEN AI Searching the skies for extraterrestrial life means spending a lot of time separating signals from noise. Luckily, AI is particularly good at that. In a new study accepted by The Astrophysical...
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A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News
FIXING THE NEWS CYCLE Digital media has seen better days. Russian bots run free while overtly-biased and misleading news drowns out real journalism on social media. Some believe artificial intelligence...
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This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs
AI-CEPTION Machine learning, for all the great things it can do for us, has a pretty big flaw: it’s data-hungry. To train a new algorithm, you need to feed it a huge pile of meticulously-labeled...
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Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore
TINY BUG, BIG IMPACT In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a campsite nuisance — they carry that cause an estimated 725,000 deaths per year. On Singapore, the effect isn’t so...
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When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What...
“Star Wars,” “Her,” and “iRobot.” What do all these movies have in common? The artificial intelligence (AI) depicted in there is crazy-sophisticated. These robots can think creatively, continue...
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This AI Stops People From Lighting up Cigarettes at the Gas Pump
DUH The Darwin Awards exist for a reason: some people aren’t great at making sure they, you know, stay alive. Case in point: People still smoke cigarettes, even at the gas pump (it’s dangerous because...
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