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A new Facebook prototype AI can watch and describe what’s happening in videos
Facebook has been ramping up its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the past few years: improving newsfeeds, unveiling their own personal digital assistant, and using automatic tagging on...
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If you think robots are amazing, check out what toddlers can do
Artificial intelligence can perform some mind-boggling tasks faster and better than any human. Time and time again, robots have proved their superiority over humans in Jeopardy, chess, and even stock...
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Test your smarts against this program that can solve geometry SAT questions
Scientists recently unveiled a new AI system that can outfox average high school students on the geometry portion of the SAT.The program answered 49% of the official SAT geometry questions correctly,...
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The 3 biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence, according to...
Science fiction movies of artificial intelligence (AI) are abound with plots of benign robots and computers that suddenly gain sentience and emotions, leading them to destroy all of humanity.The...
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The 10 craziest projects Google has acquired
Google has acquired 182 companies to date, a lot of which specialize in some crazy stuff.With a market cap of roughly $436 billion, Google has dipped its toe in just about everything. From music...
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An emotional robot just met Neil deGrasse Tyson and the results were adorably...
One world-renowned astrophysicist. One emotive robot.One giant hug:What lead to this embrace? Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and host of "Cosmos," was...
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This 'emotional' robot is about to land on US shores — and it wants to be...
Pepper the robot wants to be your friend. It can listen to you, can tell when you're feeling down, dance, and follow you around — all on its own. Next year, Pepper is coming to America.In the meantime,...
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This drone is one of the most secretive weapons in the world
The drone above, called the Taranis, is one of the most cutting-edge drones in production.At speeds of more than 700 miles an hour, it could come and go without anyone on the ground noticing it, but...
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This drone is one of the most secretive weapons in the world
The drone above, called the Taranis, is one of the most cutting-edge drones in production.At speeds of more than 700 miles of an hour, it could come and go without anyone on the ground noticing it, but...
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Meet the computer scientist who just got $625K for his work that helps track...
For Christopher Re, a computer scientist at Stanford University, is taking big data to a whole new level.He's building powerful data-processing programs that are open for anyone to use for anything —...
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This is the best career option if you don't want a robot to take your job
Robots are taking over our jobs. A 2013 Oxford study estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) will swallow up about 47% of all employment in the United States in the next 20 years.But there are a...
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Apple is buying a company that should make Siri way better (AAPL)
Apple is buying VocalIQ, a British startup that builds artificial intelligence software, the Financial Times reports.Apple confirmed the news with its boilerplate response: "Apple buys smaller...
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A look at how advanced Siri might be in the future
Apple recently bought a British startup called VocalIQ that's been working on the future of artificial intelligence, an acquisition that's expected to make Siri smarter, according to a report in The...
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16 reasons why top researchers are obsessed with artificial intelligence
For every new robot, there are hundreds of computer scientists and researchers who put in thousands of hours to make sure it works.These researchers gravitate to the time-intensive field of artificial...
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We should worry about what A.I. Barbie is saying to kids
While Silicon Valley giants start to develop AI capabilities, Mattel is already launching the ultimate AI for your child, Hello Barbie, an AI toy that Mattel advertises as a child’s “perfect friend.”...
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Apple has bought 2 artificial-intelligence companies in 4 days (AAPL)
Apple's on a buying spree as it ramps up its efforts in the tech industry's latest arms race: artificial intelligence.Bloomberg reports that Apple has bought Perceptio, a company that makes...
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Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physics genius, but the mystery he finds...
In a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread on Thursday, world-famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking fielded questions on everything from artificial intelligence to his favorite movie.Hawking has been...
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Stephen Hawking has a scary prediction about future inequality
The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking made a disturbing prediction for humanity's future with artificial intelligence in a Reddit AMA, suggesting that our drive toward technology and automation...
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How much you should worry about 3 common 'robot apocalypse' scenarios
Talk about artificial intelligence (AI) long enough and someone will inevitably ask, "Will robots take over and kill us all?"The idea of a robot apocalypse is an existential threat: something that...
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The mysterious artificial intelligence company Elon Musk invested in is...
Vicarious, the mysterious company that's been funded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and actor Ashton Kutcher, wants to do something completely radical — build the...
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