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Facebook Bought A Company That Could Let It Take On Siri
Facebook has acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator-backed speech recognition startup founded 18 months ago.The company provides an API for building voice-activated interfaces and already has over 6,000...
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ELON MUSK: Robots Aren't Going To Kill Us All ... Just Yet
Elon Musk has held a public question-and-answer session on Reddit, sharing everything from his daily habits to his fear of killer robots.In his Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session, Musk was asked...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Still A Long Way From Being A 'Doomsday Machine'
The possibility that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) might one day turn against its human creators has been repeatedly raised of late.Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, for instance, surprised...
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Facebook Is Now Better At Judging Your Personality Than Your Friends Are
How well does your best friend know you? Chances are, Facebook understands you better. A new study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, suggests that computers are now better judges of character...
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Top Scientists Have An Ominous Warning About Artificial Intelligence
Dozens of the world’s top artificial intelligence experts have signed an open letter calling for researchers to take care to avoid potential “pitfalls” of the disruptive technology .Those who have...
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Elon Musk Is Donating $10 Million To Keep Killer Robots From Taking Over The...
Elon Musk has a habit of worrying about killer robots. So he's taking action to keep them from harming us all in the future.The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla donated $10 million to the Future Of Life...
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7 Reasons Why Elon Musk Is Wrong To Believe Intelligent Robots Will One Day...
A panel at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland has just completely dismantled the idea — currently trendy in the tech sector — that artificially intelligent robots, lacking morals, may one...
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Afraid Of AI? Here's Why You Shouldn't Be
Earlier in January, an organization called the Future of Life Institute issued an open letter on the subject of building safety measures into artificial intelligence systems (AI).The letter, and the...
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Bill Gates: Elon Musk Is Right, We Should All Be Scared Of Artificial...
Like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates thinks we should be concerned about the future of artificial intelligence.In his most recent Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, Gates was asked whether or...
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BILL GATES: Here's What I Would've Done If Microsoft Didn't Work Out
Bill Gates on Wednesday hosted his third AMA on Reddit. For those unfamiliar, an AMA is where someone goes on Reddit and allows the greater internet community to ask them anything.Gates was asked what...
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SpaceX wants to be able to land the reusable parts of its Falcon 9 rockets on floating drone ships at sea, and the recently released names of the ships appear to be a tribute to a classic science...
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THE ROBOTICS MARKET REPORT: The fast-multiplying opportunities in consumer,...
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. In a...
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Facebook is getting into robots
Facebook, that company with a globally popular social network and data centers to run it all reliably, is apparently interested in “industrial automation and robotics.”The company has been searching...
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Intelligent machines aren't going to overthrow humans
Michael Littman is a professor of computer science at Brown University. He is co-leader of Brown's Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative, which aims to document the societal needs and applications of...
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Researchers figured out when companies think about replacing workers with robots
(Reuters) - The falling cost of industrial robots will allow manufacturers to use them to replace more factory workers over the next decade while lowering labor costs, according to new research.Robots...
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Here’s the real reason we should be worried about AI
Somewhere in the long list of topics that are relevant to astrobiology is the question of 'intelligence'.Is human-like, technological intelligence likely to be common across the universe?Are we merely...
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Who's set to make money from the coming artificial intelligence boom?
Artificial intelligence is about to take off in a big way.According to a new report by Goldman Sachs, AI is defined as "any intelligence exhibited by machines or software." That can mean machines that...
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Why Siri is a woman
From Apple's iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan's first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female...
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Ray Dalio is building robots
The world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, is almost ready to launch a new artificial intelligence team, Bloomberg reports.Billionaire Ray Dalio's hedge fund manages $160 billion in...
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Google chief economist: Don't fear the robots
Google chief economist Hal Varian says that we're grossly underestimating the productivity benefits we're getting from robots and other forms of automation.Speaking at a Churchill Club forum in San...
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