The Future of Sex: How Intimacy is Transforming
Technology is pushing human sexuality into uncharted terrain. It’s transforming how we express love and intimacy, and holds tremendous potential for deeper emotional and physical connections. While...
View ArticleSci-Tech Priorities in China’s Latest Five Year Plan
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View ArticleIBM Chief: Computers Will Soon be Smarter Than Humans
Cognitive Computing According to Inverse, an estimated 2.5 exabytes of data bombard us every day. That’s a lot, considering the human brain can only store about 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes),...
View ArticleHave Parking Tickets? This Robot Lawyer Can Come to Your Rescue
No More Need for Lawyers? A new online service is becoming popular among people disputing parking tickets. We all respect the law, but parking tickets can be questionable. This is where DoNotPay could...
View ArticleGoogle’s AI is Learning to Make Other AI
Training Your Replacement Imagine the conflicted feelings of the machine learning expert who is creating artificial intelligence (AI) that they know will one day, possibly very soon, be able to create...
View ArticleAn AI Poker Player Is Beating Four of the World’s Best Pros by $800,000
Add this to artificial intelligence’s growing list of accomplishments: Libratus, an AI developed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has accumulated an impressive $800,000 lead in an ongoing game of...
View ArticleMusk Is Preparing to Release “Brain Hacking Tech,” And He’s Not Alone
Making a New Kind of Human The age of the machine is well underway, and there is a very good chance that humanity will be left behind. Artificial intelligence is beating us at poker. It is beating us...
View ArticlePredictive AI: Seeing Through the Chaos
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View ArticleFuture Intelligence: Will A.I. Be A Friend or Potential Enemy?
AI: Artificial Imitation Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enjoying one of its periodic moments in the limelight. Why this interest now? Some of this we can put down to the ongoing fascination Hollywood...
View ArticleAn AI Law Firm Wants to ‘Automate the Entire Legal World’
An AI Lawyer Whether it’s a new employment contract, a rental contract, or sale contract, it needs to be checked before signing. Everyone knows the struggle of working through the dreaded small print,...
View ArticleNew Study Predicts Nearly Half of All Work Will Be Automated
Automation Invasion According to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, nearly half of all the work we do will be able to be automated by the year 2055. However, a variety of factors,...
View ArticleThe Age of AI: What You Need to Know to Prepare for Synthetic Intelligence
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” – Ray Amara It’s hard to know what to think about Artificial Intelligence these days....
View ArticleWorld’s Top Experts Have Created a “Law of Robotics”
Gearing Up for SkyNet? Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently at the forefront of cutting-edge science and technology. Advances in AI, including aggregate technologies like deep learning and...
View ArticleNow, An Artificial Intelligence Can Do Your Taxes For You
IBM understands the unique nature of its artificial intelligence (AI) software assistant Watson, and so they are not taking the direct consumer approach of Siri, Cortana, Alexa, or Google’s Assistant....
View ArticleGoogle’s Own Super Bowl Commercial Made Their AI Devices Go Nuts
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the attack again. Last night technology staged another trial coup during one of the most-watched television programs in the world, the Super Bowl. Similar to how a...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Will Protect Us in the World of Tomorrow
When it comes to cybersecurity, no nation can afford to slack off. If a nation’s defense systems cannot anticipate how an attacker will try to fool them, then an especially clever attack could expose...
View ArticleWe Need a Plan for When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us
When Apple released its software application, Siri, in 2011, iPhone users had high expectations for their intelligent personal assistants. Yet despite its impressive and growing capabilities, Siri...
View ArticleThere’s An Invention That Will be the End of All Other Human Inventions
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is a quickly growing field that excites as many people as it terrifies. The common sci-fi trope where AI tech creates its own AI until it reaches human levels of...
View ArticleFuture Robots May be Considered “Electronic Persons”
Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and...
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