The Army wants armed AI to return fire if US soldiers come under attack
The US Army is considering putting certain weapons in the hands of artificial intelligence to quickly return fire when US soldiers come under attack.The improved response time provided by AI offers the...
View ArticleMicrosoft President Brad Smith says these are the 10 biggest challenges...
Microsoft President Brad Smith penned a blog post on LinkedIn about the 10 biggest issues tech is sure to tackle in 2019. Artificial intelligence, he mentioned, will play a powerful role in how the...
View ArticleHot data backup startup Rubrik is now valued at $3.3 billion. The CEO tells...
Data management platform startup Rubrik announced Tuesday that it closed $261 million in new funding, in a deal valuing the company at $3.3 billion.Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha says that this funding means...
View ArticleAstronauts can attend Amazon's new cutting-edge tech conference for free (AMZN)
Amazon is introducing a new event called re:MARS, which focuses on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space technology.re:MARS is inspired by MARS, a private invite-only event hosted by Amazon...
View ArticleLeaked numbers reveal massive revenue growth at $3 billion Google-backed...
UiPath, an artificial intelligence company backed by Google and Sequoia, will soon hit $200 million annual recurring revenue, sources told Business Insider.Though founded in 2005, the company had just...
View ArticleThe CTO of one of the biggest consulting firms says CEOs and directors are...
Deloitte's technology consultants used to meet primarily with clients' chief technology and chief information officers.But lately, they've been meeting much more frequently with CEOs and other...
View ArticleSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls artificial intelligence a 'new human right'...
Artificial intelligence is a "new human right" that everyone should have access to, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.Otherwise, Benioff said, the world will see...
View ArticleAmazon’s cloud is slowly addressing one of its biggest criticisms as it...
Amazon Web Services announced a new open source project on Thursday called Neo-AI, which helps developers bring artificial intelligence to hardware like security systems or maybe even self-driving...
View ArticleThe Pentagon hired the world's best poker bot to work for the US army
The Pentagon has hired an AI bot designed to win poker games.Libratus, which became well-known after winning $677,000 against a group of poker experts, has been hired for two years at $10 million.The...
View ArticleNovartis is betting that AI is the 'next great tool' for finding new,...
Artificial intelligence could improve the expensive, slow process of developing drugs.Novartis is investing in AI, which executive Jay Bradner calls the "next great tool" for making new medicines. But...
View ArticleThe head of healthcare at Microsoft lays out the 3 ways AI will actually...
Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Healthcare, has a pretty straightforward thesis when it comes to tech's involvement in healthcare."For me, it's fundamentally a question of what...
View ArticleJPMorgan is in the middle of a 'massive process' of cleaning up thousands of...
JPMorgan co-president Daniel Pinto spoke to Business Insider recently about the complexity of making usable the massive amounts of data that the bank collects from customers. Artificial intelligence...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence startup Databricks is now worth $2.75 billion after...
Artificial intelligence startup Databricks announced Tuesday that it has raised $250 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.Microsoft and other firms also participated in this round, and this...
View ArticleI've been living with the Google Home Max and Apple's HomePod side by side...
I've been testing the GoogleHome Max and Apple'sHomePod side by side for nearly six months. Both devices have their pros and cons, but they share a larger issue: They both listen in and speak out of...
View ArticlePresident Trump orders all hands on deck to keep the US ahead of China in the...
President Donald Trump called on the US to prioritize advancements in artificial intelligence in a new executive order. Trump, however, did not allocate any funds for the effort, but told aides to...
View ArticleTrump's executive order on artificial intelligence is a drop in the bucket...
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and the two countries at the forefront of AI are the United States and China.The US government invests only $1.1 billion in non-classified AI technology,...
View Article3 things we learned from Facebook's AI chief about the future of artificial...
Giving machines "common sense" to learn about the world through data will be a big area of research in artificial intelligence over the next decade, says Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun.Such...
View ArticleThis robot that can instantly find Waldo might be my favorite use of...
Everyone loves a good "Where's Waldo?" puzzle — unless you can't actually find Waldo, then it starts to get frustrating.Don't feel too bad: One company actually built a robot that can find Waldo faster...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases new apps that make augmented reality way more helpful to...
Microsoft announced new Dynamics 365 artificial intelligence and mixed reality products on Thursday, and they will be released in April.Microsoft's new mixed reality applications help front line...
View ArticleThe AI tech behind scary-real celebrity 'deepfakes' is being used to create...
A new crop of websites shows the disturbing potential of deepfake technologyThe sites present pictures of faces, cats and buildings that are completely fake but look incredibly real.One of the site's...
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