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'Machine learning' is a revolution as big as the internet or personal computers
We're in the middle of a historic moment. It used to be the case that you had to program a computer so that it knew how to do things. Now computers can learn from experience.The breakthrough is called...
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Microsoft's incredible new app helps blind people see the world around them —...
Artificial intelligence is helping people do extraordinary things. At Microsoft, it's helping blind people see the world around them like never before.Last Thursday, Microsoft showed off its Seeing AI...
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Amazon quietly acquired a Californian AI startup that can tell what's in your...
Back in Autumn 2015, Amazon quietly acquired a Californian artificial intelligence startup that specialises in photo-recognition technology, according to a new report from Bloomberg.The publication...
View ArticleThe 6 craziest robots Google has acquired
Google went on a robot shopping spree in 2013.That year, Google acquired seven robotics companies. There was so many to keep track of that Google spun all of its robot projects into a department called...
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Google and Microsoft are making gigantic artificial brains
Computers have long been good at carrying out assigned tasks but terrible at learning things on their own. Thus all the excitement around "neural networks," a breakthrough artificial intelligence...
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Facebook is still 'a long way' from broadly releasing M, its own supersmart...
Prepare for the invasion of the chatbots.Facebook just released new tools that will let any business build "smart" chatbots that users can interact with and even buy things from while using the...
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Here's how Facebook is going to make your photos and videos so much better (FB)
At Facebook F8 developer conference on Wednesday, the social network's Applied Machine Learning (AML) lab gave an update on how its artificial intelligence is giving people "superpowers."Going forward,...
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Facebook explains why it cares so much about artificial intelligence (FB)
Why does Facebook care so much artificial intelligence?The company gets that question a lot, CTO Mike Schroepfer said on stage at Facebook's F8 conference on Wednesday. The key is your News Feed. When...
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'Neural bypass' has given a paralyzed patient the use of his arm — using only...
Six years ago, Ian Burkhart was an Ohio State University student on a beach vacation with his friends when a diving injury injured his spine, leaving him paralyzed in his arms and legs. With a new...
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This robot startup is trying to win the $5 trillion race to automate...
In 2008, Max Yankelevich was in India, visiting the cubicle farms where big banks and insurance companies outsource business processes — the invoices, memos, and other papers pushed to keep...
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Microsoft's latest AI experiment is refusing to look at photos of Adolf...
Microsoft is taking no chances with its latest artificial intelligence (AI) experiment.After its last AI chatbot turned into a genocide-advocating, misogynistic, holocaust-denying racist, the company's...
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Someday soon, software will learn your habits and be able to look out for you
If you think chatbots are hot right now — with how they're being used in psychotherapy, turning into racist trolls, and presenting an existential threat to Apple— just wait until they turn into...
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We have entered the age of the computer chip brain implant
Ian Burkhart can play Guitar Hero with his thoughts. Though he was left paralyzed from the neck down after a freak accident six years ago, a computer chip in his brain has enabled him to play along...
View ArticleA $30 billion hedge fund had staff program a robot to play air hockey to help...
Two Sigma, the $30 billion hedge fund that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, just hosted its annual artificial intelligence competition.The fund asks its staff to program AI...
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Facebook's grand plan to simplify your life is off to a rough start
One week ago, I asked Facebook's Messenger to send me the weather forecast every morning. It has yet to do so.Messenger is supposed to deliver me the weather through a free service called Poncho, one...
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This 'virtual employee' is proof that the robot takeover is upon us
When you first meet Amelia, you got the impression that she's all business: white Oxford shirt underneath a blazer, blonde hair seemingly pulled back in a ponytail. "She," in this case, is an avatar...
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We just got our first glimpse of what Elon Musk's AI company is working on
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, way back in December.We're just now seeing the results of it.The company released the beta of OpenAI Gym, a...
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Once this breakthrough happens, artificial intelligence will be smarter than...
There's no way of knowing when the machines will take over, but scientists have a prediction about the breakthrough that would have to occur in order for that to happen: the development of an...
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A Google exec explained why the company's AI lab is handling millions of...
A Google executive defended the NHS's decision to give Google access to patient records on Thursday.Last week, New Scientist reported that the NHS, the British national healthcare system, has given...
View ArticleThis monorail using magnets to hang from the track could reduce 2-hour...
SkyTran is a self-driving monorail currently under development that could one day eliminate driving in cities.Produced by Zach Wasser. Original reporting by Leanna Garfield. Video courtesy of...
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