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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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The former Prime Minister of Norway says people will need to be 'taken care...
Gro Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, issued a warning to governments and technology companies around the world on Tuesday as they race to develop the latest artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Researchers are figuring out how to make virtual assistants understand your...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all about getting a machine to mimic a human in every way: thought, speech, movement. That’s why one of the tests for AI is the Turing test: whether a robot can fool a...
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Amazon Echo will bring artificial intelligence into our lives much sooner...
What’s all the fuss about the voice-activated home speaker that Amazon is due to release in the UK and Germany in late September?This gadget has been available in the US for over a year and has proven...
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Tech billionaire Mike Lynch: 'You're seeing the beginning of a new age'
Mike Lynch is making a bet on robot lawyers.This Wednesday, the tech billionaire investor announced an investment in Luminance, a newly launched startup that uses artificial technology to read...
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Google just unveiled new tools to fight harassment online (GOOG, GOOGL)
Google is doing its part to fight online harassment with new tools powered by artificial intelligence. A new piece from Wired's Andy Greenberg describes the technology, which was created by Google...
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Artificial intelligence that spots abuse and harassment could be the answer...
It’s being used to fight ISIS, and now, an app developed by a subsidiary of Google is tackling another kind of vitriol — online trolls.Jigsaw, an organization that once existed as Google’s think tank,...
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Facebook has built a world-class, murderous, Doom-playing AI (FB)
Researchers from Facebook have built a highly efficient piece of artificial intelligence (AI), programmed to slaughter anything in its path.Luckily, it can only play "Doom".A team from the social...
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Hollywood bigshots gave this startup founder the idea to write music with robots
When an amateur filmmaker wants to soundtrack a video, they just pick one of their favorite songs and hope it doesn't get zapped with a copyright takedown.But for professional content, like the web...
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Google says its AI software is now almost as good at translating Chinese as a...
Google is super-charging its translation software with artificial intelligence (AI).The Californian tech giant has announced that it is implementing its neural networking AI tech into Google Translate...
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US tech giants have formed a group to promote the safe development of AI
Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft have come together to form a new organisation in a bid to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) is developed safely, ethically, and transparently.The...
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Machine learning has boosted Google's translation capabilities to near-human...
No one would accuse Google Translate, the favored tool of unscholarly high school language students everywhere, of being an inaccurate interpreter. The 10-year-old internet interpreter can fluently...
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IBM is making a major $200 million investment in Watson
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.IBM says it will be investing $200 million to improve and expand its Watson IoT data...
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I bought Google Home instead of Amazon's Echo — here's why (GOOG, GOOGL, AMZN)
I've been sold on voice-controlled digital assistants since I was a little kid.How could I not be? I grew up with "Back to the Future 2" on VHS and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in primetime. More...
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I've owned an Amazon Echo for nearly a year now — here are my 19 favorite...
I activated my Amazon Echo for the first time last December. It's quickly become one of my favorite tech gadgets ever.Google unveiled a similar device on Tuesday, called Home, but Echo is the device...
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Google's most ambitious new product isn't its fancy new phone (GOOGL, GOOG)
It's a big week for Google.The search giant unveiled a slew of new products: a phone, a virtual reality headset, updates to its Chromecast line of products, a new type of wireless router. There was...
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Samsung just bought the AI firm run by the co-creator of Apple's Siri
SEOUL (Reuters) - Tech giant Samsung said on Thursday it is acquiring U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer Viv Labs Inc, a firm run by a co-creator of Apple's Siri voice assistant...
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Marc Andreessen on what everybody gets wrong about the US economy
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen gave a long interview that Vox published Wednesday about artificial intelligence, but the most interesting part was actually about something different: the bifurcated...
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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says he's not concerned about AI anymore (AAPL)
PayPal billionaire Elon Musk, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, and renowned scientist Stephen Hawking have all said artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to harm to humanity if it's not...
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Samsung's latest purchase is its smartest yet
Exploding phones aside, Samsung has a major puzzle to solve.The company makes more phones than anyone else and dominates the Android ecosystem. But when it comes to moving beyond the smartphone to the...
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