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Here's how AI could fix the toxic nature of the internet
Venture outside the Safe For Work confines of the internet and you'll find off-the-scale offensive images that will rattle your brain.Or you could provoke the ire of strangers on the internet, like...
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French tech startup Blue Frog Robotics has created BUDDY, a family-oriented household robot. The design was inspired by robots from pop culture like R2-D2 from "Star Wars" and Disney's "WALL-E." Chief...
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IBM's Watson says it can analyze your personality in seconds — but the...
"You are heartfelt, confident and opinionated. You are calm under pressure: you handle unexpected events calmly and effectively."At least that's what IBM's supercomputer program Watson thinks of me,...
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This robot passed a 'self-awareness' test that only humans could handle until...
Robots can staff eccentric Japanese hotels, make logical decisions by playing Minecraft, and create trippy images through Google. Now the droids may have attained a new milestone by demonstrating a...
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The man who created the world's first self aware robot says this next...
Luciano Floridi issued a challenge to scientists to the world in 2005: prove that robots can display the human trait of self-awareness through a knowledge game called the "wise man" test. It was a...
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Stephen Hawking is doing a Reddit AMA — now's your chance to ask him your...
Considered one of the greatest scientists of our age, Stephen Hawking is taking to Reddit this week to answer the public's questions on life, the universe, and everything. You can submit your questions...
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Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and over 1,000 AI researchers...
More than a thousand artificial intelligence researchers just co-signed an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the development and use of autonomous weapons.The letter was presented this week...
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DARPA hired a jazz musician to jam with their artificially intelligent software
Artificial intelligence (AI) can paint hallucinatory images, shut down internet trolls, and critique the most creative paintings in history.Now, with help from the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
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Siri and Google Now hold the keys to the future
Soon, your voice will be the best way to search for anything online, period. We're already living in a mobile world — sales of both iOS and Android devices have passed Windows PCs, and their ecosystems...
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Here’s the real reason researchers issued a dire warning about weapons that...
An open letter, signed by more than a thousand top artificial intelligence researchers, urges the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons.The letter, presented at the 2015 International Joint...
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One 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...
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This startup uses artificial intelligence to predict whether a Hollywood film...
There’s a lot of literature that claims a successful Hollywood script can be broken down into a formula.The most famous is the screenplay guide Save the Cat! by guru Blake Snyder, which has swept...
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I hired a virtual PA for a week and it's made me a far more organized person...
It's unusual to meet a journalist who has their own personal assistant. I've never met one. So I was well aware of the task I had ahead of me convincing my friends, colleagues, and contacts that I now...
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These weapons can find a target all by themselves — and researchers are...
On July 27, over a thousand artificial intelligence researchers, including Google director of research Peter Norvig and Microsoft managing director Eric Horvitz, co-signed an open letter urging the...
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CVS and IBM are teaming up to use AI to predict when people are getting sick
IBM will begin to use its Watson artificial intelligence system to improve patient care for a growing number of people, especially those with chronic diseases, the company said Thursday, in a statement...
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Japanese robots have now figured out how to comfort sad humans
It's finally come to this: humans are relying on robots for emotional support. Pepper, Japan's latest robot to join the humanoid ranks, was built by the the telecom giant SoftBank. A $1,650 consumer...
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Check out all the terrifying semi-autonomous 'killer robot' weapons humans...
On July 27, over a thousand artificial intelligence researchers, including Google director of research Peter Norvig and Microsoft managing director Eric Horvitz, co-signed an open letter urging the...
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Here's why we should build killer robots
Last Monday, more than a thousand artificial-intelligence researchers cosigned an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the development and use of autonomous weapons.Presented at the 2015...
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Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us
Last week Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and more than 16,000 researchers signed an open letter warning against the dangers of autonomous weapons.A top signatory who studies artificial intelligence (AI)...
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A new robot helper could make daily chores astronomically more fun
The robots are coming, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, a robot could be the best roommate you've ever had.New research has imbued a robot arm with a special skill: the ability to offer...
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