This web site answers one simple question: Is the person in that picture naked?
A new website called IsItNude.com does exactly what you'd guess based on the name: Pop in a picture, and it'll tell you if the photo's subject is naked. It sounds like a joke, but it was created by a...
View ArticleGoogle’s artificial-intelligence bot says the purpose of living is 'to live...
This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence.Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to...
View ArticleA Chinese artificial intelligence program just beat humans in an IQ test
Science just took us a small step closer to HAL 9000.A new artificial intelligence (AI) program designed by Chinese researchers has beat humans on a verbal IQ test.Scoring well on the verbal section of...
View ArticleThese trippy images show how Google's AI sees the world
Google's image recognition programs are usually trained to look for specific objects, like cars or dogs.But now, in a process Google's engineers are calling "inceptionism," these artificial...
View ArticleWe now know how Elon Musk's $10 million donation will help ensure artificial...
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, doesn’t trust artificial intelligence, which he once likened to “summoning the demon.”In fact, Musk distrusts it so much that, in January, he donated $10 million to...
View ArticleA robot killed a factory worker in Germany
A robot killed a factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany, FT reports. The 21-year-old worker was installing the robot when it struck him in the chest, crushing him against a plate. He died...
View ArticleA machine is about to do to cancer treatment what ‘Deep Blue’ did to Garry...
When world chess champion Garry Kasparov first faced IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1996, he was certain he would win."I will beat the machine, whatever happens,"he recalled thinking, in a later film...
View ArticleGoogle now lets people tranform their photos into trippy dreamscapes
Google has made its “inceptionism” algorithm available to all, allowing coders around the world to replicate the process the company used to create mesmerising dreamscapes with its image processing...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg's vision of the future is full of artificial intelligence,...
Mark Zuckerberg made some mind-bending predictions about the future at a Q&A he hosted on his Facebook page on Tuesday.They may seem far-fetched now but some of the Facebook CEO's deas are shared...
View ArticleThese are the research projects Elon Musk is funding to ensure A.I. doesn’t...
A group of scientists just got awarded $7 million to find ways to ensure artificial intelligence doesn't turn out evil.The Boston-based Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit dedicated to...
View ArticleGoogle’s AI system created some disturbing images after ‘watching’ the film...
With images like these, who needs drugs?Google's artificial neural network, Deep Dream, is capable of producing some amazingly trippy images.A typical neural network looks for features of an image that...
View ArticleDARPA wants to build a personal assistant that can read your mind
While we are still waiting for Siri to get a little better, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to go a step further — they want to build personal assistant machines that can...
View ArticleGoogle released their AI dream code and turned the internet into an acid trip
Google's artificial neural networks are supposed to be used for image recognition of specific objects like cars or dogs. Recently, Google's engineers turned the networks upside down and fed them random...
View ArticleHere's what the nightmarish images from Google's AI can actually teach us...
You may have seen some of the "nightmarish"images generated by Google's aptly named Inceptionism project.Here we have freakish fusions of dogs and knights (as in the image above), dumbbells with arms...
View ArticlePeople are sending flowers and chocolate to thank personal assistant 'Amy...
When former Havas CEO David Jones — now founder of his own brand technology network You & Mr Jones — pulled out his iPhone and offered to show me his amazing personal assistant "Amy Ingram," I...
View ArticleHow artificial intelligence will make intrusive technology disappear
Last March, I was in Costa Rica with my girlfriend, spending our days between beautiful beaches and jungles full of exotic animals. There was barely any connectivity and we were immersed in nature in a...
View ArticleHere's what we know about 'Cortex,' Twitter's new artificial intelligence...
Twitter is ramping up its artificial intelligence efforts, hunting for experts to fill out a new team called “Cortex.” A couple of recent job postings provide some clues about Twitter’s new Cortex...
View ArticleOne of Mark Zuckerberg's mind-blowing predictions about the future already...
From telepathy to total immunity from disease, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't shy away from bold predictions about the future during a Q&A on his Facebook profile on June 30.But one of...
View ArticleHere’s why it’s so hard to make a funny robot
Artificial intelligence can do a lot of things, like recognizing your face or identifying good art.But it still can't tell a joke.And though humor has a reputation for being subjective and changing...
View ArticleHow Google and cats rekindled the research into Artificial Intelligence (GOOG)
Artificial Intelligence may seem like a buzzword now, but for decades it wasn't considered all that interesting by those in the field.In fact, though there were a few scientists working tirelessly for...
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