ERIC SCHMIDT: Here's What Humans Can Do That Computers Will Never Be Able To Do
Google chairman Eric Schmidt said in conversation with Glenn Beck that "there's something about humans that technologists always forget. Humans are creative and unpredictable."Schmidt's point is that...
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Social Networks Like Facebook Are Finally Going After The Massive Amount Of...
The future of social media turns on being able to make sense of "unstructured data," the firehose of texts, posts, tweets, pictures, and videos that even the most powerful computers are unable to...
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Social Networks Are Investing Big In Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Internet companies are in a race to build out their artificial intelligence talent and acquire the most advanced machine-learning systems. They're doing so in order to finally make sense of...
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'DeepFace': Facebook's Face Recognition Gets One Step Closer To Human-Like...
Soon enough, Facebook may be able to recognize the faces of your friends, family and co-workers just as precisely as you can.The social media giant is further developing its facial verification...
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Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image...
The world's largest social networks are storing massive amounts of never-before-analyzed data that could reveal crucial information about consumers — from how people arrive at purchase decisions, to...
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Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Have Invested $40 Million In A Mysterious...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk are investing $40 million into an artificial intelligence company called Vicarious alongside actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, reports the Wall...
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Artificial Intelligence Is The Next Frontier For Social Networks
Social networks are capturing a phenomenal amount of data on their users. But the vast majority of that information is unstructured and can't easily be put to use.Now, though, Facebook, Twitter,...
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Here’s What It Would Take To Upload Your Brain Into A Computer
When Wally Pfister’s Transcendence is released on April 17, millions of moviegoers will be asking themselves, “Could we really upload Johnny Depp into a computer one day?”In the spirit of "Could Bruce...
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The Evolution Of Artificial Intelligence In Movies Since The 1920s
Transcendence casts Johnny Depp as a brilliant scientist who plots out grand plans for The Singularity, only to become that omnipotent, sentient technological himself when an assassination attempt goes...
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How 'Transcendence' Failed To Communicate A Real Possible Future To...
In a misleading article on CNN.com this week, Americans were said to be “excited” and “upbeat” about the way technology will improve our lives in the future. The headline of the piece, though, claims...
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This Is What It's Like To Work For Billionaire Microsoft Co-Founder Paul...
Oren Etzioni is one of the big names in the Seattle-area tech scene thanks to his fantastic string of startup successes stretching from 1994 to 2013. Six startups, all successful exits, including one...
View ArticleWhat The Heck Is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is a computer's way of learning from examples, and it is one of the most useful tools we have for the construction of artificially intelligent systems.It starts with the effort of...
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Stephen Hawking Is Worried About Artificial Intelligence Wiping Out Humanity
We've previously reported on the realistic potential for malicious artificial intelligence to wreak havoc on humanity's way of life. Physicist Stephen Hawking agrees it's worth worrying about.Current...
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It Gets Pretty Weird When You Have Two 'Artificially Intelligent' Chatbots...
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician whose work laid the foundation for computer science and artificial intelligence as we know them today. His work during World War II helped cut...
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Beyond Factory Robots: Market Forecast And Growth Trends For Consumer And...
Robots have fascinated us for generations. The idea that we might be able to create and control machines that are smarter, faster, and more resilient than humans has proven irresistible. Futurists have...
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Social Networks Still Haven't Unlocked Their Full Value To Marketers And...
Much of the value that social networks offer marketers and advertisers is still untapped, locked in what is known as unstructured data, the billions of user-generated written posts, pictures, and...
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The Market For Home Cleaning Robots Is Already Surprisingly Big, And There's...
Futurists have long predicted a world in which robots perform dull or dirty tasks so humans can focus their energies elsewhere.That future is here, thanks to robotic appliances that help home owners...
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Why The 'Super Computer' That Won The Turing Test May Not Be As Smart As You...
On Saturday, a chat bot named Eugene Goostman was recognized as the first computer to officially pass the Turing Test.Some, however, have expressed skepticism at this claim, especially since other...
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No One's Talking About The Amazing Chatbot That Passed The Turing Test 3...
The artificial intelligence world was largely abuzz this week upon the news that a computer program designed to simulate a text-based conversation with a 13-year-old Ukrainian child had passed the...
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How We Could Actually Measure Artificial Intelligence
A chatbot pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy made waves last weekend when its programmers announced that it had passed the Turing test.But the judges of this test were apparently easily...
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