A former TV comedy writer learned three ways to succeed at impossible tasks...
Dr. Noam Slonim is the computer scientist who conceived of and helped build "Project Debater," an IBM computer that not only debates humans, it sometimes beats them. The effort to build Debater took...
View ArticlePeople love Sonos speakers so much they buy them again and again, but there...
Sonos, which filed to go public on Friday, has built up a respectable business.But the speaker market is undergoing a major shift to smart speakers, and Sonos runs the risk of being relegated to being...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence will create as many jobs as it destroys, according to...
Billionaires including Bill Gates and Elon Musk have argued that robots will basically replace humans at work.People are now worried about vast swathes of unemployment where a few wealthy people own...
View ArticleMeet the 29-year-old who founded a company that's using technology to find...
Alice Zhang started Verge Genomics in 2015 with Jason Chen to combine innovation in neuroscience, machine learning and genomics and apply it to the drug discovery process. The vision for Verge was to...
View ArticleA new study shows that tech CEOs are optimistic about the future, even if...
Tech industry CEOs are bullish on the future of their companies, the sector, and artificial intelligence.But they're worried about the spread of nationalism, cybersecurity â and millennials.Those are...
View ArticleElon Musk and DeepMind's pledge to never build killer AI makes a glaring...
Tech leaders including Elon Musk and the cofounders of DeepMind signed a pledge last week to never develop "lethal autonomous weapons."The letter argued that morally the decision to take a life should...
View ArticleHow this founder turned a hackathon project into a startup that's changing...
Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon in 2011 with his startup Talkdesk. Now, the company is one of the most recognizable names in the call center industry, with clients such as IBM, Peet's Coffee,...
View Article'The AI has no soul': China is working on a fleet of drone submarines to...
China is developing large, smart and relatively low-cost unmanned submarines that can roam the worldâs oceans to perform a wide range of missions, from reconnaissance to mine placement to even suicide...
View ArticleGoogle Assistant tops Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa in a head-to-head...
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon are all developing competing voice assistants.In a test run by Loup Ventures on smartphones, Google Assistant was able to answer the most questions correctly....
View ArticleSome Google employees are confused and angry about a recent report that...
Google is facing backlash following a report that it plans to provide a censored search engine for China.Sen. Marco Rubio and even some Google employees are among those criticizing the company.Google...
View ArticleFacebookâs chief AI scientist says that Silicon Valley needs to work more...
Facebook's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that letting AI experts split their time between academia and industry is helping drive innovation.Writing for Business Insider, the executive and NYU...
View ArticlePeople in a new study struggled to turn off a robot when it begged them not...
A new study published this week in the journal PLOS found that humans may have sympathy for robots, particularly if they perceive the robot to be "social" or "autonomous."For several test subjects, a...
View ArticleHow banks are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to...
This is a preview of the AI in Banking and Payments (2018) research report from Business Insider Intelligence. To learn more about the use cases, trends and future of AI in finance, click...
View ArticleOne of America's largest healthcare companies wants to use AI to 'solve some...
Optum, the health services arm of America's largest insurer United Health Group, is trying to make the data it collects smarter using artificial intelligence. Using this data, Optum is seeing if it can...
View ArticleSamsung just unveiled its first smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, to take on...
Samsung announced its first smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, during an event in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday.The Galaxy Home will be powered by Samsung's artificial-intelligence voice assistant,...
View ArticleHere's everything Samsung unveiled at its biggest event of the year
Samsung made a slew of announcements this week at Unpacked 2018, its biggest conference of the year, in Brooklyn, New York.As expected, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 9, the large-phone successor to...
View ArticleGoogle's DeepMind AI can accurately detect 50 types of eye disease just by...
Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has published "really significant" research showing its algorithm can identify around 50 eye diseases by looking at retinal eye scans.DeepMind said its...
View ArticleResearchers at Facebook are getting more involved in robotics, and have...
Joelle Pineau, director of Facebook's AI research lab in Montreal, said she's convinced AI needs to eventually interact with the world and have physical contact with it.The AI research lab she runs is...
View ArticleMeet Grimes, the Canadian pop star who streams video games and is dating Elon...
At the Met Gala in early May, a surprising new couple showed up on the red carpet: billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk and Canadian musician and producer Grimes.While Musk has long been known to date...
View Article'American History X' director Tony Kaye wants to cast artificial intelligence...
British director Tony Kaye is hoping to cast an artificial intelligent (AI) "actor" in the lead of his next film, "2nd Born."The idea to cast a robot in a lead role is a joint effort between Kaye and...
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