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New UN Report Calls For The Cessation Of All Military Drone Fabrication
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input "should not have the power of life and death over human beings," a new draft U.N. report says.The report for the U.N. Human Rights...
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Steve Wozniak Says Human-Like Computers Could Give Every Child A Personal Tutor
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak thinks that computers will become so much like humans over the next few years that children will be able to use them as personal teachers.According to the Belfast...
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Sorry, Everyone: Artificially Intelligent Bots In 'Quake III' Game Do NOT...
There's a wonderful story making its way through the tech/gaming media right now: That if you set 16 bots to fight each other in the video game "Quake III: Arena," and then leave the game running for...
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The Most Advanced Artificial Intelligence In Existence Is Only As Smart As A...
One of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems is about as smart as preschooler, new research suggests. But your preschooler may have better common sense.An artificial intelligence (AI)...
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BMW Made Its Own Version Of Siri To Help Sell Electric Cars
In the new, strange and intriguing world of electric cars, customers have plenty of questions to ask--and BMW is launching a tool to help answer those questions without having to contact your...
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IBM CEO: 'Do Not Be Afraid' Of The All-Powerful Computer We're Building (IBM)
As most of the world knows by now, IBM has created a computer called Watson that is, arguably, the smartest, most human-like computer ever built.Most folks know Watson as the computer that won the...
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DARPA's New Project Sounds A Lot Like Computers That Think For Themselves
Trading isn't the only thing that happens in milliseconds nowadays, complicated exploits of computer systems happen just as fast — and with astounding potential consequences.The newest competition out...
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Chips 'Inspired' By The Brain Could Be Computing's Next Big Thing
When you see the world through your own eyes, your brain is able to almost instantly recognize and perceive what things are. Your brain is essentially a complex pattern-matching machine that delivers...
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Tiny Startup Vicarious Is Creating A Human-like Brain That Runs On A Laptop
A San Francisco-based startup named Vicarious is well on its way toward creating software that thinks and acts like a human brain.On Monday, the company announced a major breakthrough. Its software can...
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Stop What You're Doing And Try This Site That Comes Up With A Facebook Status...
What-would-I-say is a new website that generates Facebook statuses that sound like you. And as these things go, it's not too bad.For example, it thinks I might say this on Facebook:Which is pretty...
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Researchers Are Trying To Teach Computers Common Sense
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all...
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Facebook Just Hired A Man Who Teaches Computers To Think (FB)
The race is on to create computers that can see, hear, think and reason like humans but with a computer's speed and accuracy. IBM has its Watson. Google has its new Quantum AI Lab in partnership with...
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Can A Human Actually Fall In Love With A Computer?
The film "Her," which opens across the country this month, tells a love story between a man and some software.It may seem far-fetched, but researchers say it's plausible. If so inclined, they could...
View ArticleThese Computer Simulations Teach Themselves To Walk, And The Results Are...
What we have here is a computer demonstration of "flexible muscle-based locomotion for bipedal creatures," but let's out it for what it really is: a video of 3D models figuring out how to walk and...
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Why You Won't Get Your Own Personal Scarlett Johansson Any Time Soon
In the movie "Her," the main character, Theodore Twombly falls in love with the operating system of his computer. The operating system is run by an artificial intelligence who Theodore calls Samantha...
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Here Are The 47% Of Jobs At High Risk Of Being Destroyed By Robots
It is an invisible force that goes by many names. Computerization. Automation. Artificial intelligence. Technology. Innovation. And, everyone's favorite, ROBOTS.Whatever name you prefer, some form of...
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Google's Game Of Moneyball In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Over the past couple of months, Google has been playing its own peculiar game of Moneyball. It may not make a ton of sense right now, but Google is setting itself up to leave its competitors in the...
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A Brilliant Scientist Would Like To Remind You That Watson And Siri Aren't...
Douglas Hofstadter is a professor, cognitive scientist, and author whose work addresses a number of fields from computer science to consciousness.And he'd like to remind you that the Jeopardy-winning...
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Netflix Is 'Training' Its Recommendation System By Using Amazon's Cloud To...
Frequent Netflix users rejoice: Netflix is working on a new technology that should make its recommendation engine much better. The goal of the technology is to stop recommending movies based on what...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence On Mobile Is Quickly Becoming A Reality
Mobile Insider is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.CAN COMPUTERS...
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