A computer was trained to play Qbert and immediately broke the game in a way...
Machine learning researchers taught a machine how to play Qbert for Atari.The computer program found a bizarre way to rack up 1 million points by playing the game "in what seems to be a random manner"...
View ArticleGoogle’s new smart camera isn't smart enough to take the hands-off, impromptu...
Google's newest hardware product, Clips, is a smart body camera designed to solve the problem of having to take out your smartphone every time you want to take a picture.The hope was that the built-in...
View ArticleElon Musk slammed a Harvard professor for dismissing the threat of Artificial...
Elon Musk didn't pull any punches when calling out Harvard professor Steven Pinker this week.Pinker said on a Wired podcast that "if Elon Musk was really serious about the AI threat he'd stop building...
View ArticleWealth Wizards is bringing AI to financial advice
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Fintech Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Wealth Wizards, a UK-based provider of digital financial advice services, has...
View ArticleElon Musk thinks artificial intelligence is ultimately more dangerous than...
Elon Musk thinks AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons.Speaking at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Musk said that the rate of improvement in artificial intelligence "scares the hell" out of...
View ArticleProgrammers love Google more than Apple, but dread Microsoft according to...
Stack Overflow released its 2018 developer survey results, a massive look into the state of modern programming, with over 101,592 respondents. It finds that Google's Go programming language is a hair...
View ArticleOne of the last TV shows starring Stephen Hawking is now streaming for free —...
Stephen Hawking died at age 76 on Wednesday.The world-renowned physicist worked on an Emmy Award-winning TV show called "Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places" before he passed away.In the show, Hawking...
View ArticleHere's how we can teach machines to be fair
Automated decision-making in machine learning can lead to discrimination.If this discrimination is not prevented, it would cause irreversible damages such as distrust of the technology and the...
View ArticleDIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Apple Watch, Fitbit can detect AFib, study shows —...
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View ArticleParts of China are using facial recognition technology that can scan the...
Sixteen areas in China are using facial-recognition technology that can reportedly scan the country's population in one second, and the world's population in two seconds.Over the last two years the...
View ArticleApple just landed the most sought-after free agent in Silicon Valley — and...
Apple has hired John Giannandrea, who was Google's head of search.He'll work on machine learning and artificial intelligence and report directly to CEO Tim Cook, according to The New York Times.It's a...
View ArticleAmazon Echo has transformed the way I live in my apartment — here are my 19...
I activated my Amazon Echo for the first time over two years ago, in December 2015. It's since become one of my favorite tech gadgets ever.Amazon's family of Echo speakers are popular gifts right now,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg says AI won't be able to reliably detect hate speech for...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that while it's relying increasingly on artificial intelligence to police content on its site, AI doesn't work well for identifying hate speech.AI won't be ready to...
View ArticleUS artificial intelligence startups had a record quarter and raised $1.9...
US Artificial intelligent startups raked in $1.9 billion in venture capital money in Q1 2018, up 29% from the quarter before. AI accounted for 116 US deals, out of a total of 1,206 across tech...
View ArticleDIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Health insurers worry over consumer satisfaction —...
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View ArticleMicrosoft has given up 'significant sales' over concerns that the customer...
At a conference this week, Microsoft Research scientist and leader Eric Horvitz says that the company has given up "significant sales" because it was worried the customer would use AI for not-good...
View ArticleAI IN BANKING AND PAYMENTS: How artificial intelligence is cutting costs,...
This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here. Artificial...
View ArticleAI is great at recognizing nipples, Mark Zuckerberg says (FB)
Facebook is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to identify offending items on its site.But AI is better at recognizing some things than others, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday.One...
View ArticleAI IN BANKING AND PAYMENTS: How artificial intelligence is cutting costs,...
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View ArticleDIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: Doctor On Demand raises $74M amid telemedicine boom...
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