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This Google and Apple alum now wants to bring a little 'magic' into your workday
These days, the biggest tech companies are trying to ramp up the way your phone can act as a virtual assistant for dishing out contextual information.Google, Apple, and Microsoft have pushed the...
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I used IBM's supercomputer to make dinner — and the results surprised me
IBM's supercomputer Watson, after obliterating chess and Jeopardy champions, is now taking on culinary experts.The free Chef Watson app takes the user's requested meal, style and ingredients, and...
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Robots will do almost every job better than humans
Of all the changes that sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) will bring, the biggest may be changing the job market as we know it.A 2013 Oxford study projected that an estimated 47% of all...
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I used IBM's supercomputer to make dinner — and the results surprised me
IBM's supercomputer Watson, after obliterating chess and Jeopardy champions, is now taking on culinary experts.The free Chef Watson app takes the user's requested meal, style and ingredients, and...
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The real problem with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad rap lately.Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk are just a few notable people who have warned about the perilous consequences associated...
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It just got a lot easier to find great supercomputer-created recipes on Chef...
IBM Watson's supercomputer chef is a marvel of artificial intelligence but it isn't always perfect when it comes to actual use.The free Chef Watson app takes the user's requested meal, style and...
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Computers could eventually write and improve their own code — putting...
Step aside "Terminator"— moviemakers looking to make accurate dystopian movies should instead take cues from "The Grapes of Wrath."That's because robots won't take our lives — they're more likely to...
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A new program can recreate how Vincent van Gogh painted the world
Vincent van Gogh's artistic genius took the art scene by storm shortly after his death. The tortured artist's unique vision of the world still captivates today.Now scientists from the Bethge Lab in...
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Ethicists are trying to ban sex robots
This summer, thousands of artificial-intelligence researchers called for a ban on robot killers.And now, in an interesting twist, ethicists have started calling for a ban on robotic lovers — sex...
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This terrifying tool shows you whether robots will take your job
If artificial-intelligence researchers, entrepreneurs and economists are to be believed, the robotic onslaught that will annihilate our jobs and transform all of society is nigh.Thankfully, the BBC...
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This man thinks he can crack one of the greatest mysteries about what makes...
Brendan Frey thinks his company could solve what many consider the biggest problem in genetics, the thing that keeps us from from using our genetic blueprint in order to completely transform the way we...
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A new Barbie model can talk back using artificial intelligence
A prototype for Mattel's ubiquitous Barbie doll has been developed that incorporates advanced artificial intelligence elements to allow it to process human speech, and even answer profound questions...
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Banning sex robots is a bad idea
"Ban sex robots!" scream the tech headlines, as if they're heralding the arrival of the latest artificial intelligence threat to humankind since autonomous killer robots.The campaign, led by academics...
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Billionaire investor Yuri Milner says human brains work better with computers
Elon Musk may be afraid of artificial intelligence overtaking humans, but billionaire investor Yuri Milner has to disagree. Rather, he thinks artificial intelligence will develop in a different way...
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A new computer program does better at SAT geometry than the average high...
Artificial intelligence is coming for everything you hold dear, and not even your beloved SAT scores are safe.A new AI system can now tackle geometry questions on the SATs about as well as an average...
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Here's how well an AI scored on the math section of the SAT
Artificial intelligence has already beaten us at chess and bested us in IQ tests.Now, scientists say they have created an AI that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American...
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Facebook's artificial intelligence research director says today's 'best AI...
Economists and computer scientists believe future artificial intelligence (AI) will not only take our jobs but fundamentally change everything we know about work and society.So it's easy to imagine AI...
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It’s impossible for someone to build a super-intelligent robot in their basement
Science fiction movies, like "Metropolis" and the more recent "Ex Machina," often depict lonely researchers toiling away in secret labs developing super-intelligent, sophisticated robots.But the...
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Here's what Facebook's artificial intelligence expert thinks about the future
Almost everything on Facebook — the posts in your timeline, the ads, and features like speech recognition and automatic image tagging — is driven by artificial intelligence (AI).And Facebook is just...
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Watch this creepy knife-wielding robot make noodles
We've heard about all kinds of people losing their jobs to robots — from cab drivers to bartenders— but almost any repetitive job can be replaced by a robot.One fantastically tasty example of this is...
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