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Accenture and IPsoft partner on AI virtual agent business
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Consulting firm Accenture has announced a partnership with artificial...
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Google is out of original ideas (GOOG)
Google kicked off I/O, its biggest event of the year, on Wednesday.And yet, not a single product announced was new.At I/O, we saw Google chasing the trends of the moment instead of leaving us with the...
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Google's AI gurus ran tests to try and understand how the human brain...
Neuroscientists at DeepMind, a Google-owned AI lab in London, have teamed up with academics at Oxford University and UCL to try and determine how the human brain navigates an underground train...
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Science fiction can tell us a lot about our problems with artificial...
Given that the reality of AI may be fast approaching, it’s of the utmost importance that we work out what might a future with artificial intelligence might look like.Last year, an open letter with...
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Here's what everyone got wrong about the latest doomsday scenario for Apple
The tech world was in a frenzy this weekend, arguing over whether or not Apple would collapse if it failed to catch onto the budding trend of artificial intelligence, which some think could be the next...
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Apple could be building its own smart speaker
Apple is working on its own smart speaker, similar to Amazon's Echo device, The Information's Amir Efrati reports. Sources tell Efrati that the company is building a voice-activated device powered...
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Here's how artificial intelligence could solve the biggest problem in education
Ashok Goel wants to expand high-quality education to "millions" more people over the internet.That idea isn't new. It's the same goal that's pushed universities to make more and more courses and degree...
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Apple is working on an AI system that wipes the floor with Google and...
Siri is due for a big upgrade.Apple now has the tech in place to give its digital assistant a big boost thanks to a UK-based company called VocalIQ it bought last year.According to a source familiar...
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Apple has a chance to finally fix Siri (AAPL)
Siri may be the first mainstream digital assistant, but it's still the butt of many jokes now that it's been bested by just about all of Apple's biggest competitors.It's fair criticism too. Siri's...
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Facebook will start scanning 10,000 posts a second to make comments less...
While Facebook has lot of noise around using artificial intelligence to better sort photos and videos, text is still an huge part of the Facebook experience. Today, we got a look behind the scenes on...
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Google developed a 'big red button' that can interrupt artificial...
Machines are becoming more intelligent every year thanks to advances being made by companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.AI agents, as they're sometimes known, can already beat us...
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This 75-year-old NASA legend has been working in secret for 10 years building...
From 1992 to 2001, Dan Goldin served as the longest-tenured administrator of NASA, overseeing projects like the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavor and the redesign of the International Space...
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Siri doesn't have to stink — here's what Apple could do to fix it (AAPL)
You'd have a hard time finding anyone who thinks Siri is the best of the digital assistants out there. Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, and even newcomers like Amazon's Alexa have all bested Siri in...
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This is one of the most promising robot butlers we've ever seen
Robots are often feared as entities that will become evil and destructive in the future. But the reality is robots have potential to play a critical role in helping and caring for people.Japan is...
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Apple is planning for the next 1,000 years (AAPL)
Last month, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a televised interview that Apple was going to be around for the next "thousand years.""We are not here for a quarter or two quarters or the next quarter or the...
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Apple quietly goes big on AI as it looks to keep up with Google and Facebook
Google and Facebook are widely regarded as being more innovative than Apple when it comes to developments in the coveted field of artificial intelligence (AI) — hailed as the next major area for...
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Google has created a new AI research group in Europe to focus on machine...
Google announced in a blog post on Thursday that it has set up a new AI research group in Europe to focus on machine learning (ML).Machine learning is a field of computer science that gives computers...
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Elon Musk's $1 billion nonprofit wants to build a robot to do housework
Elon Musk has built cars and rockets. Next up: domestic robots.OpenAI — the artificial-intelligence research nonprofit cochaired by Tesla Motors CEO Musk and Y Combinator President Sam Altman— wants to...
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5 ways to get more likes on your selfies according to a robot
How do you look your best in a selfie on National Selfie Day? Luckily for anyone wondering, a robot has figured it out.An artificial intelligence (AI) system built by a Stanford University researcher...
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This is what 100 'perfect' selfies look like
Ever wonder how to snap a selfie that will break the internet? Luckily for you a computer program has already figured out the secrets to getting likes, favorites, and hearts.An artificial intelligence...
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