A 'human swarm' has figured out where Jeff Bezos should donate his money
Jeff Bezos tweeted in June that he wanted short-term, high-impact ways to do social good.An artificial intelligence platform put 46,000 suggestions to a vote, using a method inspired by how bees...
View ArticleHere's how millennial investors are trading Nvidia ahead of earnings (NVDA)
Nvidia is on a tear this year, up nearly 70% on the back of impressive artificial intelligence technology and a boost from cryptocurrency mining.The company is set to report its second-quarter results...
View ArticleGoogle's DeepMind is teaching its artificial intelligence how to sleep (GOOG)
Google has been pretty far ahead of the curve when it comes to its artificial intelligence research. The world was shocked when its AI beat a top human player at the game of Go. More recently the...
View ArticleNvidia crushed earnings and is still dropping (NVDA)
Nvidia crushed its earnings and is still seeing its stock price plummet.Nvidia is down 8.39% in premarket trading after trumping Wall Street's expectations for earnings and revenue. The company brought...
View ArticleElon Musk: Artificial intelligence presents 'vastly more risk than North Korea'
Elon Musk tweeted some warnings about artificial intelligence on Friday night."If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea," Musk tweeted after his $1...
View ArticleAI and CGI will transform information warfare, boost hoaxes, and escalate...
Humans can generally trust what they see and hear — but that won't be the case for long.Advances in AI and CGI will soon make it possible for anyone to create photorealistic video and audio.Experts say...
View ArticleGoogle just hired a former Apple star engineer after his short stint at Tesla...
Chris Lattner, the engineer credited with creating Swift, Apple's super-popular programming language, has landed at Google, he announced Monday on Twitter.Lattner will be working on Google Brain,...
View ArticleA fund betting on robots and AI is crushing it — and it's targeting...
When Jay Jacobs, director of research at Global X, and his team were looking to start new theme-based exchange-traded funds last year, a robotics and artificial intelligence ETF just made sense."I...
View ArticleBox is now plugged into Google's AI, letting you easily search through images...
Presumably one of the major benefits of artificial intelligence is its ability to perform tasks faster and with less complaining than a human can. So it only makes sense that one of the first exercises...
View ArticleThe world's top artificial intelligence companies are pleading for a ban on...
A revolution in warfare where killer robots, or autonomous weapons systems, are common in battlefields is about to start.Both scientists and industry are worried.The world’s top artificial intelligence...
View ArticleMicrosoft's AI is getting crazily good at speech recognition
Microsoft's speech recognition efforts have hit a significant milestone.It can now transcribe human speech with a 5.1% error rate, Microsoft technical fellow Xuedong Huang wrote in a blog post— the...
View ArticleMicrosoft's voice-recognition tech is now better than even teams of humans at...
In October 2016, in a big milestone for artificial intelligence, Microsoft unveiled a system that can transcribe the contents of a phone call as well or better than human professionals.But while...
View ArticleApple has revealed how it makes its AI assistant Siri's voice sound how it...
If you've ever used an iPhone, you're almost certainly familiar with Siri, Apple's virtual assistant.It can answer question, fulfill tasks, and manage calendars — most commonly with a soothing female...
View ArticleBank of America Merrill Lynch has become the latest bank to implement AI (BAC)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has revealed that it is implementing...
View ArticleAI IN E-COMMERCE: How artificial intelligence can help retailers deliver the...
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.One of retailers' top priorities is to figure...
View ArticleThe $2,500 answer to Amazon's Echo could make Japan's sex crisis even worse
Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is shrinking year after year, to the point where deaths are outpacing births.Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing.But let's be clear: Population...
View ArticleRobot caregivers for the elderly could be just 10 years away
Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and other everyday...
View ArticleMizuho boosts its financial crime fighting skills with AI
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions are increasingly gaining...
View ArticleResearchers taught AI to write totally believable fake reviews, and the...
Researchers have used AI to develop software that can write extremely believable fake online reviews.The tech is a major threat to sites like Yelp and Amazon — and the businesses that rely on them.And...
View ArticleAmazon and Microsoft want their AI assistants to be friends. Here's what that...
On Wednesday, Microsoft and Amazon made a surprise announcement: Cortana and Alexa, their respective AI-based voice assistants, will work together. Or, as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos succinctly put it in a...
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