18 artificial intelligence researchers reveal the profound changes coming to...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing our lives for decades, but never has AI felt more ubiquitous than now.It seems as though not a week passes without yet another AI system overcoming an...
View ArticleGoogle’s head of artificial intelligence says ‘computers are remarkably dumb’
Google’s head of machine learning doesn’t seem too worried about computers becoming smarter than humans anytime soon. John Giannandrea, who leads the company’s machine learning efforts, said that he is...
View ArticleNissan built a self-driving car with a steering wheel that transforms into a...
Nissan unveiled its self-driving, IDS concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show today, and it comes with an animated steering wheel that transforms into a touch screen.While there are no current plans to...
View ArticleApple's culture of secrecy is reportedly hurting its artificial intelligence...
Apple's culture of secrecy is hurting its efforts to hire artificial intelligence experts, according to a report by Bloomberg. While other companies, such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM, allow...
View ArticleAmerican's 10 biggest fears are mostly technology related
What are you most afraid of? If you’re like many Americans, you’re more scared of technology issues than dying, mass shootings, or ghosts. The Chapman University Survey on American Fears shows that...
View ArticleApple's artificial intelligence efforts are shrouded in secrecy (AAPL)
Don't even think about updating your LinkedIn profile if you get hired to work on one of Apple's teams focused on the company's artificial intelligence efforts.According to Bloomberg Businessweek's...
View ArticleHumans still have a major advantage over robots, and it's not changing any...
While automation is becoming more common in some industries, humans still have a big leg-up on the ever-increasing robotic competition, Manuela Veloso, international expert in AI and robotics, told...
View ArticleThe world's leading futurist wants to live forever — here's why
YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBE BUTTON EMBED CODE Google's resident futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil says humans are just a few scientific breakthroughs away from achieving eternal life. During a visit to...
View ArticleThis robot has a skill that was once reserved only for humans
Robots are becoming more capable of performing tasks like humans — we're even sending them to assist astronauts in space— but when it comes to speaking like humans, that's a major challenge.We don't...
View ArticleHow Facebook will use artificial intelligence to organize insane amounts of...
Using some quick and dirty math, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer estimates that the amount of content that Facebook considers putting on your News Feed grows 40% to 50% year-over-year. But because people...
View ArticleFacebook already uses AI to recognize photos — the next step is video (FB)
While uploading photos to Facebook, you may notice that the social network will try to automatically tag faces and match them with their respective profiles.Facebook's artificial intelligence chief,...
View ArticleFacebook wants to use artificial intelligence to crack the game no computer...
There's one surefire way researchers like to test the capabilities of their artificial intelligence systems—games.Earlier this year, Google Deepmind created a computer that can learn how to play video...
View ArticleWhy Facebook thinks its super-smart digital assistant won't cross the ‘creepy...
Facebook exec David Marcus promises that its new, incredibly ambitious virtual assistant, M, won't be creepy. Right now M has only rolled out to select people in the San Francisco Bay Area, where...
View ArticleA new study reveals that humans may exhibit the same level of empathy towards...
Human empathy may extend further than we thought.In fact, humans may even have the ability to empathize with manufactured machines.Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology in collaboration...
View ArticleThe robot apocalypse is going to look a lot different than what's in the movies
In the next two decades, somewhere in the United States, a legal secretary is going to be handed a pink slip when she gets to work. Her worst fears have come true — a computer program has made her work...
View ArticleThe CEO of Google's £400 million AI startup is going to meet with tech...
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was acquired by Google last year for £400 million, has revealed that some of the most prominent minds in AI are gathering...
View ArticleAn artificial intelligence researcher created a computer program to judge...
Selfies are an amazing way to tell the world "here I am, rock you like a hurricane!" But according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) system built by a Stanford University researcher, not all...
View ArticleAn AI program analyzed two million selfies and found out what makes a great one
How do you look good in a selfie? Luckily for anyone wondering, a robot has figured it out.A new artificial intelligence (AI) system built by a Stanford University researcher Andrej Karpathy looked at...
View ArticleToyota will invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence and robotics (TM)
Toyota says it will spend $1 billion to build a new research institute dedicated to two things that will improve its cars: artificial intelligence, and robotics.The new establishment, called Toyota...
View ArticleA computer discovered something weird about the best selfies
There are a lot of unspoken rules about what makes a good selfie.It turns out how selfies are cropped makes a huge difference, according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) system built by Stanford...
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