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Over a third of people think AI poses a threat to humanity
Some 36% of people think the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to the long term survival of humanity, according to a YouGov survey for the British Science Association that was...
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An AI expert says Google's Go-playing program is missing 1 key feature of...
For the first time in history, a computer program is poised to beat one of the world's best human players at the 2,500-year-old game of Go — widely considered one of the most difficult games ever...
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just technology — it’s also a religion
I spend a lot of time covering advances in artificialintelligence. It's one of the big stories of our time,— so much so that the White House has said it will remake our society.On Wednesday, I attended...
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4-1: Google DeepMind beats Go champion Lee Sedol in a tense final game (GOOG)
Google DeepMind's AI has won the fifth and final game of Go against human world champion Lee Sedol.Lee played as black for the first time in the tournament — possibly to try and confuse the AlphaGo AI...
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A lot of people who make over $350,000 are about to get replaced by software
Artificial intelligence is poised to automate lots of service jobs. The White House has estimated there's an 83% chance that someone making less than $20 a hour will eventually lose their job to a...
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Google just proved how unpredictable artificial intelligence can be
Humans have been taking a beating from computers lately.The 4-1 defeat of Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol by Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI) is only the latest in a string of pursuits in which...
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A 'Shazam' app for plant identification may be here soon
Computers are gaining on our botany skills.Scientists have developed software that combines machine learning and computer vision to guess which plant family a leaf belongs to.Although it's designed for...
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Wall Streeters be warned: A CIA-backed startup could be listening to your calls
If you're a Wall Street trader, you'll want to be extra careful about what you say on calls and in emails going forward.Especially if you work for Credit Suisse.That firm has teamed up with the...
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A psychotherapy bot is headed to refugee camps in the Middle East
The war in Syria is horrifying. According to the UN, over 3 million Syrian refugees are now in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, with millions more displaced within Syria. To help with...
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What Microsoft’s teen chatbot being 'tricked' into racism says about the...
Launched earlier this week, Microsoft's Tay chatbot was supposed to act like a stereotypical 19-year-old: defending former One Direction member Zayn Malik, venerating Adele, and throwing around emoji...
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How Facebook decides which memories to show you in one of its most...
You've probably noticed Facebook's On This Day feature popping an old status update about a "new" job from years ago back onto your feed, casting you back to that Caribbean vacation you took in 2010,...
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2 sentences from a startup CEO show why so many jobs are getting automated
Marketers use the word "handmade" to signal that a product is worth an extra couple bucks — be it cheddar or loafers.That's a way of separating those artisanal items from machine-made, mass-produced...
View ArticleA computer scientist built an AI baby that looks realistic and can learn...
Mike Sagar built detailed simulations of body parts for movies like "Avatar" and "King Kong." Now he's trying to build a simulated brain. His program combines his hyper-realistic biological models with...
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Microsoft apologizes for its racist chatbot's 'wildly inappropriate and...
Microsoft apologized for racist and "reprehensible" tweets made by its chatbot and promised to keep the bot offline until the company is better prepared to counter malicious efforts to corrupt the...
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21 of the funniest responses you'll get from Siri (AAPL)
Apple's Siri voice assistant is one of the most widely available bots in the world. Most people with an iPhone can ask it questions with the push of a button, and over the years, Apple has used that...
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An ad agency has appointed the 'world's first artificially intelligent...
Ad agency McCann Japan has appointed an artificial intelligence creative director, AI-CD β, who will be attending McCann Worldgroup’s new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1, along with 11 new...
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IBM's Watson analyzed 'Star Wars' and reached some fascinating conclusions
One of IBM Watson's many talents is analyzing personality traits by looking at written text.The supercomputer assesses traits based on the popular Big Five test, which rates subjects for extroversion,...
View ArticleMicrosoft's artificial intelligence is so smart it can tell blind people...
At its 2016 developer conference, Microsoft showed off an incredible set of glasses powered by its AI that can tell a blind person what's going on around them.Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy...
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Here's why we should thank Microsoft for its AI bot that turned into a...
The Wild West of the internet is notoriously good at making bad decisions. In 1998, a collective of internet users chose Hank the "Angry Drunken Dwarf" as the most beautiful person in the world.In...
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Satya Nadella says Microsoft's rogue racist chatbot failed by its own...
At today's Microsoft Build event, CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that he sees chatbots as the next big thing.To that end, Microsoft announced a new series of tools to help developers build helpful...
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