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Facebook is still 'a long way' from broadly releasing M its own super-smart...
Prepare for the invasion of the chatbots. Facebook just released new tools that will let any business build "smart" chatbots that users can interact with and even purchase things from while using the...
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A paralyzed man can use his arm again thanks to a chip in his brain
Six years ago, Ian Burkhart was an Ohio State University student on a beach vacation with his friends when a diving injury injured his spine, leaving him paralyzed in his arms and legs. With new...
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Facebook just showed off how it's going to make your photos and videos so...
At Facebook F8 developer conference on Wednesday, the social network's Applied Machine Learning (AML) lab gave an update on how its artificial intelligence is giving people "superpowers."Going forward,...
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Facebook explains why it cares so much about artificial intelligence (FB)
Why does Facebook care so much artificial intelligence?The company gets that question a lot, CTO Mike Schroepfer said on stage at Facebook's F8 conference on Wednesday. The key is your News Feed. When...
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This robot startup is trying to win the $5 trillion race to automate...
In 2008, Max Yankelevich was in India, visiting the cubicle farms where big banks and insurance companies outsource business processes — the invoices, memos, and other papers pushed to keep...
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Microsoft's latest AI experiment is refusing to look at photos of Adolf...
Microsoft is taking no chances with its latest artificial intelligence (AI) experiment.After its last AI chatbot turned into a genocide-advocating, misogynistic, holocaust-denying racist, the company's...
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Machine learning is going to revolutionize the way you use your phone
If you think chatbots are hot right now — with how they're being used in psychotherapy, turning into racist trolls, and presenting an existential threat to Apple— just wait until they turn into...
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We have entered the age of the computer chip brain implant
Ian Burkhart can play Guitar Hero with his thoughts. Though he was left paralyzed from the neck down after a freak accident six years ago, a computer chip in his brain has enabled him to play along...
View ArticleA $30 billion hedge fund had staff program a robot to play air hockey to help...
Two Sigma, the $30 billion hedge fund that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, just hosted its annual artificial intelligence competition.The fund asks its staff to program AI...
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Facebook's grand plan to simplify your life is off to a rough start
One week ago, I asked Facebook's Messenger to send me the weather forecast every morning. It has yet to do so.Messenger is supposed to deliver me the weather through a free service called Poncho, one...
View ArticleA $30 billion hedge fund had staff program a robot to play air hockey to help...
Two Sigma, the $30 billion hedge fund that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, just hosted its annual artificial intelligence competition.The fund asks its staff to program AI...
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This 'virtual employee' is proof that the robot takeover is upon us
When you first meet Amelia, you got the impression that she's all business: white Oxford shirt undernearth a blazer, blonde hair seemingly pulled back in a ponytail. "She," in this case, is an avatar...
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We just got our first glimpse of what Elon Musk's AI company is working on
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, way back in December. And we're now just now seeing the results of it.The company released the beta of...
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Once this breakthrough happens, artificial intelligence will be smarter than...
There's no way of knowing when the machines will take over, but scientists have a prediction about the breakthrough that would have to occur in order for that to happen: the development of an...
View ArticleThese flying pods could transform how we get around cities
SkyTran is a self-driving monorail currently under development that could one day eliminate driving in cities.Produced by Zach Wasser. Original reporting by Leanna Garfield. Video courtesy of...
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Microsoft exec: 'AI is the most important technology that anybody on the...
A big claim was made at a conference in London on Thursday.Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer at Microsoft UK, told an audience of business leaders at an AI conference that AI is "the most...
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The weird way video games are paving the road to the future of technology...
Here's something interesting you might not know:The graphics processors, or GPUs, that make possible the eye-poppingly realistic graphics of games like "Quantum Break" are also really well-suited to...
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There's an 'AI backbone' that over 25% of Facebook's engineers are using to...
Over 25% of Facebook engineers are using a piece of software to help them leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), according to a blog post by one of the company's...
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DeepMind killed off an AI-powered fashion website when it was acquired by...
DeepMind, Google's AI lab in London, is well known for creating an algorithm that beat the best human in the world at Chinese board game Go.It's also been in the news this month for the controversial...
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Google's newest software is named 'Parsey McParseface' — no, seriously (GOOG,...
The spirit of the "Boaty McBoatface" phenomenon lives on at Google. Today, Google introduces Parsey McParseface — a free new tool, born from Google's research division to help computers better parse...
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