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Google just proved how unpredictable artificial intelligence can be
Humans have been taking a beating from computers lately.The 4-1 defeat of Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol by Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI) is only the latest in a string of pursuits in which...
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A Google AI 'godfather' says machines could match human abilities in 5 years...
Geoffrey Hinton, an artificial intelligence (AI) expert who splits his time between Google and the University of Toronto, believes machines could match human abilities in five years.Hinton, known as...
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A 'Shazam' app for plant identification may be here soon
Computers are gaining on our botany skills.Scientists have developed software that combines machine learning and computer vision to guess which plant family a leaf belongs to.Although it's designed for...
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People in refugee camps are starting to see a bot for therapy
The war in Syria is horrifying. According to the UN, over 3 million Syrian refugees are now in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, with millions more displaced within Syria. To help with...
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Microsoft's AI chatbot has been shut down after Twitter users taught it to be...
Microsoft’s attempt at engaging millennials with artificial intelligence has backfired hours into its launch, with waggish Twitter users teaching its chatbot how to be racist.The company launched a...
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What Microsoft’s teen chatbot being 'tricked' into racism says about the...
Launched earlier this week, Microsoft's Tay chatbot was supposed to act like a stereotypical 19-year-old: defending former One Direction member Zayn Malik, venerating Adele, and throwing around emoji...
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How Facebook decides which memories to show you in one of its most...
You've probably noticed Facebook's On This Day feature popping an old status update about a "new" job from years ago back onto your feed, casting you back to that Caribbean vacation you took in 2010,...
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2 sentences from a startup CEO show why so many jobs are getting automated
Marketers use the word "handmade" to signal that a product is worth an extra couple bucks — be it cheddar or loafer. That's a way of separating those artisanal items from machine-made, mass-produced...
View ArticleA computer scientist built an AI baby that looks realistic and can learn...
Mike Sagar built detailed simulations of body parts for movies like "Avatar" and "King Kong." Now he's trying to build a simulated brain. His program combines his hyper-realistic biological models with...
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Microsoft apologizes for its racist chatbot's 'wildly inappropriate and...
Microsoft apologized for racist and "reprehensible" tweets made by its chatbot and promised to keep the bot offline until the company is better prepared to counter malicious efforts to corrupt the...
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21 of the funniest responses you'll get from Siri (AAPL)
Apple's Siri voice assistant is one of the most widely available bots in the world. Most people with an iPhone can ask it questions with the push of a button, and over the years, Apple has used that...
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An ad agency has appointed the 'world's first artificially intelligent...
Ad agency McCann Japan has appointed an artificial intelligence creative director, AI-CD β, who will be attending McCann Worldgroup’s new employee welcoming ceremony on April 1, along with 11 new...
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Satya Nadella says Microsoft's rogue racist chatbot failed by its own...
At today's Microsoft Build event, CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that he sees chatbots as the next big thing.To that end, Microsoft announced a new series of tools to help developers build helpful...
View ArticleMicrosoft's artificial intelligence is so smart it can tell blind people...
At its 2016 developer conference, Microsoft showed off an incredible set of glasses powered by its AI that can tell a blind person what's going on around them.Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy...
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Here's why we should thank Microsoft for its AI bot that turned into a...
The Wild West of the internet is notoriously good at making bad decisions. In 1998, a collective of internet users chose Hank the "Angry Drunken Dwarf" as the most beautiful person in the world.In...
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'Machine learning' is a revolution as big as the internet or personal computers
We're in the middle of a historic moment. It used to be the case that you had to program a computer so that it knew how to do things. Now computers can learn from experience.The breakthrough is called...
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Microsoft's incredible new app helps blind people see the world around them —...
Artificial intelligence is helping people do extraordinary things. At Microsoft, it's helping blind people see the world around them like never before.Last Thursday, Microsoft showed off its Seeing AI...
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Amazon quietly acquired a Californian AI startup that can tell what's in your...
Back in Autumn 2015, Amazon quietly acquired a Californian artificial intelligence startup that specialises in photo-recognition technology, according to a new report from Bloomberg.The publication...
View ArticleThe 6 craziest robots Google has acquired
Google went on a robot shopping spree in 2013.That year, Google acquired seven robotics companies. There was so many to keep track of that Google spun all of its robot projects into a department called...
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Google and Microsoft are making gigantic artificial brains
Computers have long been good at carrying out assigned tasks but terrible at learning things on their own. Thus all the excitement around "neural networks," a breakthrough artificial intelligence...
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