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IBM CEO: Artificially intelligent computers will 'change who you are' (IBM)
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has a pretty startling vision for the future.She sees the day when every decision humans make —from what we eat to how businesses operate — are done in consultation with...
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The 20 most important scientific developments of 2015
Big things happened in the science world in 2015.Researchers edited the DNA of human embryos, showing that doing so was possible. Their work had flaws, but it demonstrated that we're capable of using...
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The mobile revolution is over. Get ready for the next big thing: Robots
The computer industry moves in waves. We're at the tail end of one of those waves — the mobile revolution.What's next? Robots.But not the way you think.The robot revolution won't be characterized by...
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Chinese search engine Baidu released some of its code after Eric Schmidt...
Baidu, China's leading internet search engine, has released some of its AI (artificial intelligence) code less than a week after former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said technology companies need to start...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson and futurist Ray Kurzweil on what will happen to our...
Astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with futurist and author Ray Kurzweil for the first time. Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Kevin Reilly, and Darren Weaver and by...
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This tech CEO has been given $200 million to invest in 'garage' start-ups
Tech Mahindra, a $4-billion (£2.8 billion) IT services firm in India, is aiming to invest $200 million (£141 million) in what its boss calls "garage startups."CEO CP Gurnani told Business Insider he...
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A think tank claims Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have overhyped AI risks and...
Celebrated scientists and entrepreneurs including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk have been criticised by a US think tank for overstating the risks associated with...
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Facebook users upload so many videos, it had to invent a whole new system to...
Facebook users are uploading so many videos to the social network that its engineers had to come up with an entirely new system for handling them, the company said today. Luckily for Facebook's...
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Here are some of the greatest achievements of Marvin Minsky, artificial...
We've lost one of the world's most brilliant scientists.Marvin Minsky, the MIT scientist who helped pioneer the field of artificial intelligence and laid the foundations for the computer and the...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains what will happen when robots take our jobs
In recent years, society has seen major advances in robotics and computing, which leads some to believe that one day robots will become smart enough to take over all of our jobs. Neil deGrasse Tyson...
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A Google computer program just destroyed a human champion in a game that's...
In what may be one of the bigger achievements in artificial intelligence since IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, a computer program developed by the British AI...
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Google's Go win was a massive step forward for AI, but machines have a ways...
The computer science world erupted with excitement earlier this week, when an artificial intelligence program made by the Google-owned AI company DeepMind bested the human European champion in the...
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Google DeepMind just beat Europe's Go champion but now it wants to take on...
It was a result that sent shockwaves through the Go community. AlphaGo, the computer created by DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) arm of Google, thrashed European Go champion Fan Hui 5-0 — the...
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Google DeepMind used new AI techniques to navigate a 'Doom'-like maze with...
Not content with mastering centuries-old Chinese board game Go, DeepMind has now pitched an artificial intelligence (AI) agent against a more contemporary game called "Labyrinth."The Google-owned...
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These GIFs will convince you that robots won't take over the world any time soon
If you're like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and fear the impending war between humans and killer robots, watch this video.It just may convince you that robots have a long way to come before they're...
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How Google's AI is teaching itself to play computer games like a human
Google has made massive strides in refining its artificial intelligence, DeepMind, in just the last year.The most recent example of that fact took place in late January, when DeepMind was able to beat...
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Microsoft's latest iPhone app can identify your dog's breed based on a photo...
Microsoft introduced a new app on Thursday that anyone with a dog should play with because it's a lot of fun.It's called Fetch!, and it's available for iPhones and on the web. It uses artificial...
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Machines may replace half of human jobs
In just 30 years, intelligent machines could replace about half of the global workforce.That was the message Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University and Guggenheim fellow, shared...
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Robots will steal your job: How AI could increase unemployment and inequality
The future is supposed to be a glorious place where robot butlers cater to our every need and the four-hour work day is a reality.But the true picture could be much bleaker.Top computer scientists in...
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Here's how the robot in 'Ex Machina' was created for a film with a budget of...
Anyone with an appreciation for artificial intelligence in movies will likely have been impressed with humanoid robot "Ava" in the Hollywood film "Ex Machina.""Ex Machina" was made on a budget of just...
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