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Elon Musk: I'm Worried About A 'Terminator'-Like Scenario Erupting From...
Elon Musk believes it's feasible a "Terminator"-like scenario could erupt out of an artificial intelligence.In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Musk said he's an investor in an...
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3 Big Ways That Social Robots Will Change Your Life
MIT professor and roboticist Cynthia Breazeal has an excellent essay up on Robohub right now all about how "social robots" will stand to change much of our lives.A "social robot" is simply a robot that...
View ArticleMachine Learning Can Automatically Cut The Boring Parts Out Of Movies
Just about every device has a camera in it, so we're shooting more and more video than we have ever before. If only all of it were worth watching.The latest application of machine learning was...
View ArticleThis Ice Cream-Serving Robot Is Actually A Huge Breakthrough For Artificial...
Robots need some very specific instructions in order to successfully accomplish tasks. If you want a robot to bring you a beer while you recline on the couch, it needs to know what a beer is, that a...
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Here's Why Robots Will Increasingly Be Less, Not More, Human-Like
Robots have been a reality on factory assembly lines for over twenty years. But it is only relatively recently that robots have become advanced enough to penetrate into home and office settings. BI...
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Emotion-Recognition Technology Could Make Focus Groups A Thing Of The Past
Focus groups for TV shows and movies have been around for decades. But despite the dollars and hours spent trying to figure out how people will react to media, people don't necessarily report what...
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This Settles The 'Robots Will Take Our Jobs' Argument Once And For All
It's a common dystopian sci-fi trope: the robots get better at various tasks, the humans become useless, and suddenly the world's population is unemployed (or dead) as the robots take our jobs and...
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The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been...
"We've been keeping a very low profile, mostly intentionally," said Doug Lenat, President and CEO of Cycorp. "No outside investments, no debts. We don't write very many articles or go to conferences,...
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By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem
"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the...
View ArticleGoogle Cofounder Sergey Brin: We Will Make Machines That 'Can Reason, Think,...
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin sat for an interview with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. During the interview, Brin was asked about machine learning and artificial intelligence. He says...
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This Artificial Intelligence Could 'Eradicate The Spreadsheet' And Do The...
Kris Hammond is chief scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science, a company that uses an artificial intelligence product called Quill to turn boring data and statistics into highly readable stories...
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Artificial Intelligence Will Write Bestseller Fiction In The Future
We recently spoke to Kris Hammond, chief scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science, a company with an artificial intelligence product called Quill that can turn data into stories that read as if...
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Why We Can't Yet Build True Artificial Intelligence, Explained In One Sentence
Buried in Maureen Dowd's latest column for The New York Times is a perfect one-sentence explanation of why true artificial intelligence for machines isn't coming any time soon.Jaron Lanier, prominent...
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If You Don't Think Robots Can Replace Journalists, Check Out This Article...
Earlier this week we reported on Narrative Science, an artificial intelligence company whose product, Quill, can turn tables of data into a natural language story that you can read as if it were a...
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This Company Spent 9 Years To Build Apps That Mimic How Brains Work
Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky started Numenta nine years ago to create software that was modeled after the way the human brain processes information. It has taken longer than expected, but the...
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The Robotics Industry Is Undergoing A Major Market Shift
The multibillion-dollar global market for robotics, long dominated by industrial and logistics uses, has begun to see a shift toward new consumer and office applications. The market for consumer and...
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Scientists Are Afraid To Talk About The Robot Apocalypse, And That's A Problem
Working roboticists need to indulge the public in sci-fi scenarios.I thought it'd be a cool story to interview academics and robotics professionals about the popular notion of a robot takeover, but...
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Here's What We Know About The Secretive, Elon Musk-Backed Firm Creating...
Silicon Valley enjoys something of a monopoly these days on making the most noise in the U.S. economy.But there's been surprisingly little fanfare surrounding the latest project that seemingly all the...
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Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is 'Potentially More Dangerous Than Nukes'
Back in June, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told CNBC that he'd invested in a company called Vicarious that is developing products and services based on artificial intelligence. But that wasn't why Musk got...
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The Rise Of The Roomba Vacuum Shows There Is Huge Business Potential In The...
iRobot, a Massachusetts company, has shipped more than 10 million Roomba robotic vacuums since the device launched in 2002, and it's shipping over 1 million Roomba units annually.In a new report from...
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