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Watch a haunting MIT program transform photos into your worst nightmares
The smarter artificial intelligence (AI) software gets, the more fearful the world's brightest contemporary minds seem to grow.SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said in 2014 that "we're summoning the...
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How Google embarrassed Apple (GOOG, AAPL)
This week didn't look good for Apple.Google's new Pixel phone launched to positive reviews, largelyĀ because of the phone's new digital helper called Google Assistant.As I wrote in my review of the new...
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Facebook AI director Yann LeCun explains how he hires the smartest minds in...
US tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into artificial intelligence as they look to make their platforms and personal assistants that...
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Facebook's AI director explained why some of the world's brightest minds...
Apple is one of the most secretive technology companies in the world, with the Cupertino tech giant typically only providing public updates when it has a new product to announce.Part of this secrecy...
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Experts are worried that advancements in AI could threaten humanity
Oren Etzioni, a well-known AI researcher, complains about news coverage of potential long-term risks arising from future success in AI research (see āNo, Experts Don't Think Superintelligent AI is a...
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UK chief scientist: 'AI poses new questions about ethics and governance'
The government has released a report highlighting some of the benefitsĀ and challenges that are likely to come about as a result of advancesĀ in artificial intelligence being made by companies like...
View Article8 details you may have missed on episode 7 of 'Westworld'
The 7th episode of HBO's "Westworld" shocked viewers with a big reveal about one of the main characters on the show. But that wasn't the only key moment in the episode. Here are 8 other details you...
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A futurist explains what Black Mirror's 'San Junipero' episode gets wrong...
SPOILERS BELOW.TheĀ "San Junipero" episode of "Black Mirror" has been hailed as brilliant and one of the few in the series with an optimistic vision of the future. (Again: major spoiler warning).The...
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Google Play Music made a huge leap forward this week (GOOG, GOOGL)
True confession: I thought about quitting Google Play Music.After declaring it better than Spotify last spring, I found myself disappointed with some features. Play Music's Concierge, which suggested...
View ArticleThere's a chance that aliens could be so advanced that we'll have to...
Ā What would hyper-advanced aliens even look like if we could find them.Ā Ā Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University, New York,Ā and author of "The Copernicus Complex," Caleb...
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Google's DeepMind and Oxford are working on a lip-reading system (GOOG, GOOGL)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Googleās DeepMind and the University of Oxford are working on a...
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Microsoft's Chinese chatbot won't talk about Tiananmen Square or Donald Trump...
Microsoft's Chinese chatbot Xiaoice is wildly popular ā just don't ask it about Tiananmen Square.The conversational two-year-old Chinese-speaking bot won't talk about certain controversial political...
View Article7 details you may have missed on episode 9 of 'Westworld'
The second to last episode of season 1 of "Westworld" had some big reveals for fans and hinted towards an even bigger reveal in the finale. There were several throwbacks to some scenes in the premiere...
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There might be an algorithm that explains intelligence
The human brain is the most sophisticated organ in the human body. The things that the brain can do, and how it does them, have even inspired a model of artificial intelligence (AI). Now, a recent...
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21 technology tipping points we will reach by 2030
From driverless cars to robotic workers, the future is going to be here before you know it. Many emerging technologies you hear about today will reach a tipping point by 2025, according to a report...
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Facebook wants to teach you about artificial intelligence now so it can hire...
"We need everybody to contribute to artificial intelligence," Joaquin QuiƱonero Candela, the head of Facebook's Applied Machine Learning (AML) research division, tells Business Insider.Candela is...
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This AI can create 'videos of the future'
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
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MasterCard is turning to AI to prevent false declines (MA)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Payments Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.MasterCard will incorporate machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI is going to decimate middle class jobs
Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned.In a column in The...
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Facebook gives a lesson on AI (FB)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook has released an explainer on artificial intelligence (AI) with...
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