Facebook is teaching its AI to read 'Alice in Wonderland' and it has amazing...
Learning to read "Alice in Wonderland" may be the key to teaching machines to understanding the way we speak.At least that is the tactic Facebook is using to impove the language capabilities of M, the...
View ArticleThe Work Terminator — How the rise of AI and robots could kill jobs and boost...
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...
View Article13 AI researchers reveal the amazing facts that blow their minds
Everyone has that one fact they tell people when they want to blow their minds. Some of the best mind-blowing facts come from scientists, and artificial-intelligence researchers have some amazing...
View Article3 massive projects Facebook is working on over the next 10 years
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a live fireside chat in Berlin on Thursday morning to discuss some of his company's most innovative projects.At the end of the interview, the moderator asked...
View Article10 British AI startups to look out for in 2016
Silicon Valley giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are investing more of their time and resources into artificial intelligence (AI) research in the hope that it will improve their existing...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg: We shouldn't worry about AI overtaking humans 'unless we...
Fears of the oncoming artificial intelligence revolution are rampant and growing in Silicon Valley. If it comes down to man versus machine, more tech leaders are starting to worry that it will be the...
View ArticleThese are the 13 jobs in London where a robot is most likely to steal your job
In the future the global employment market will rely heavily on robots, artificial intelligence, and all sorts of automation.In fact, technology is so crucial going forward, that in January, the World...
View ArticleA high-flying London tech entrepreneur rocked up to No. 10 in shorts and Ed...
A high-flying London tech entrepreneur turned up to Prime Minister David Cameron's house on Thursday evening wearing shorts and trainers after being invited to help choose the next "Founders of the...
View ArticleA MIT computer scientist created a Donald Trump Twitter bot — and it's oddly...
Donald Trump has mastered the art of the one-liner.The US presidential candidate now has a Twitter bot twin that tries to mimic his signature soundbites.The bot tweets Trump-like statements using an...
View ArticleEric Schmidt: Advances in AI will make every human better (GOOG)
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company, believes that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) will make every human on the planet better in some way.Speaking in South...
View ArticleThe CEO of Google DeepMind is facing his biggest challenge to date (GOOG)
Demis Hassabis, the CEO and cofounder of the artificial-intelligence company DeepMind, is in South Korea this week hoping that an AI created in a discreet office in London's King's Cross will outsmart...
View ArticleDavid Silver: The unsung hero and intellectual powerhouse at Google DeepMind...
If you're familiar with DeepMind — the research-intensive London startup that's taken on the best player in the world at notoriously complex Chinese board game "Go"— then you've probably heard of Demis...
View ArticleGoogle just made artificial-intelligence history
Google just made artificial-intelligence history.A program called AlphaGo, designed by Google's DeepMind artificial-intelligence team, just won a game against Lee Sedol, one of the world's greatest Go...
View Article8 industries robots and AI will completely transform by 2025
Just as ATMs changed banking and computers took over the home and workplace, robots and artificial intelligence are going to transform a bunch of industries over the next decade.By 2025, a machine may...
View ArticleAn ex-Pentagon official thinks 'killer robots' need to be stopped
The dystopian war between robots and humans of the "Terminator" films is probably not going to happen, but there is still reason to worry about so-called "killer robots."A new report by Paul Scharre of...
View ArticleExperts explain the biggest obstacles to creating human-like robots
Artificial intelligence (AI) became a scientific field almost 60 years ago. Ever since then, researchers have tried to achieve human-level smarts or better.Yet even with recent feats of computational...
View ArticleThis one paragraph will make you appreciate your brain — and laugh at...
Google has just reached a milestone for artificial intelligence (AI). AlphaGo, a program designed by the company's DeepMind AI division, just beat Lee Sedol, a world champion Go player.It's another...
View ArticleROUND TWO: Google's DeepMind AI just beat a human Go champion for a second time
Google's DeepMind AI just beat a human world champion at the ancient game of Go for a second time, cementing its historic achievement.The AlphaGo software played Lee Sedol in South Korea on Thursday,...
View ArticleA top computer scientist told us the games that artificial intelligence can't...
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence team is making history.Its AlphaGo program is up 2-0 on Lee Sedol, one of the top Go players alive. This is the first time a computer has beat a human champion...
View ArticleNow that Google's artificial brain is conquering Go, this classic computer...
Google's DeepMind just won its second of five games of the classic board game Go against a top-ranked world champion — a feat that impressed even Elon Musk.Now that Google has proven that the DeepMind...
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