White House Releases a Solution to Automation-Caused Job Loss
The White House Weighs In In a new report, the White House makes clear its position on how best to address the expected job loss due to increased automation and better artificial intelligence (AI)...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Hedge Fund is Completely Automating Management (and Humans)
Management Gone Digital There has been a lot of discussion regarding the role automation will play in our workforce in the coming years. Much of this talk is focused on how the shift will impact...
View ArticleWatch Tesla’s Autopilot Avoid a Major Accident With Just Seconds to Spare
Stop, Look, and Tesla The future of autonomous automobiles has been assured, to a great extent, by innovative companies like Tesla. While some are still hesitant to accept self-driving cars on the...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: What It Is and How It Really Works
Which is Which? It all started out as science fiction: machines that can talk, machines that can think, machines that can feel. Although that last bit may be impossible without sparking an entire world...
View ArticleMachines That Learn Are Invading, and Utterly Transforming, Our Lives
What is Machine Learning? The interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved lately into something more akin to an obsession. Every day, it seems, we learn of some new development in AI, or its...
View ArticleWestworld and AI: Experts Discuss the Future of Intelligent Machines
Sophia’s No Dolores…Yet. Remember that robot that freaked everyone out on the internet because it said it will destroy humans? That was Sophia—and she feels terrible about the whole thing. In any case,...
View ArticleToyota’s Futuristic Concept Car Comes With Wings and a Built-In AI
With some experts predicting an end to car ownership in the near future, you can’t blame Toyota for coming up with a concept car designed to make you fall in love with it. At the 2017 CES (Consumer...
View ArticleNew AI To Take On World’s Best Poker Players
Rise of the (Gaming) Machines Lee Sedol reviews the match after finishing against Google’s artificial-intelligence program, AlphaGo. Credit: Lee Jin-man / AP As time progresses, we hear of more and...
View ArticleGoogle AI Secretly Uploaded to the Internet, Where it Wreaked Havoc on Gamers
AI Undercover Google’s DeepMind is a company working on what could be one of the most significant scientific advances of our era. They focus on the development of AI systems that could have a broad...
View ArticleLife Insurance Company is Replacing Human Employees With AI
The Future is Here It looks like the job automation trend is getting to Japan, bringing the country a step closer to a future of layoffs in favor of intelligent machines. Japanese firm Fukoku Mutual...
View ArticleTesla Rolling out Upgraded Autopilot Features
Enhanced Autopilot While Faraday Future os unveiling its FF91 autonomous car, Tesla is busy rolling out an update to its autopilot system. Last Saturday, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that a select number of...
View ArticleCES Day One: The Weirdest, Coolest, and Most Futuristic Tech
It’s the first week in January, and that can only mean two things — painful hangovers from New Year’s revelries and the international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas! Forget Christmas…for tech...
View ArticleNew Lie-Detecting Robot Security Agent Could Help Secure Borders
AVATAR Meet the Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real Time (AVATAR), a robotic device created by San Diego State University management information systems professor Aaron Elkins that...
View ArticlePeter Diamandis Thinks We’re Evolving Toward “Meta-Intelligence”
From Natural Selection to Intelligent Direction In the next 30 years, humanity is in for a transformation the likes of which we’ve never seen before—and XPRIZE Foundation founder and chairman Peter...
View ArticleBlame Displacement of Jobs on Automation, Not Offshoring and Immigration
A New Wave of Automation As the world continues to achieve unprecedented levels of advancement in AI and robotics, we must, at the same time, come to terms with the fact that our fundamental...
View ArticlePredicting 2017: The Rise of Synthetic Intelligence
The transition from one year to the next is always a little uncertain – an uneasy blend of anxiety and optimism, it’s also a time of retrospection, introspection, and even a little tentative...
View ArticleTechnology and Privacy Forecast 2017
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View ArticleWATCH: Toyota’s Concept I Is a Beautiful Mix of Futuristic Design and...
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View ArticleAutonomous Cars Are Coming, But Not For Your Job
Incorrect Assumptions With autonomous vehicles widely being considered one of the breakout innovations of 2016, the debate that autonomous vehicles combined with artificial intelligence will replace...
View ArticleIndustry Giants Are Devoting Millions to Make a Moral AI
Rising Up to the Task 2016 was a year of many firsts in artificial intelligence (AI). It was the year that saw major breakthroughs in AI aggregate technologies, such as computer vision, deep learning,...
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