Here are some of the greatest achievements of Marvin Minsky, artificial...
We've lost one of the world's most brilliant scientists.Marvin Minsky, the MIT scientist who helped pioneer the field of artificial intelligence and laid the foundations for the computer and the...
View ArticleFacebook and Google are in a race to build an AI that can beat humans at a...
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, announced this morning that Facebook has created an artificial intelligence system that is "getting close" to beating the best humans at Chinese board game...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson explains what will happen when robots take our jobs
In recent years, society has seen major advances in robotics and computing, which leads some to believe that one day robots will become smart enough to take over all of our jobs. Neil deGrasse Tyson...
View ArticleGoogle just destroyed a human champion in a game that's harder than chess
In what may be one of the bigger achievements in artificial intelligence since IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, a computer program developed by the British AI...
View ArticleGoogle's Go win was a massive step forward for AI, but machines have a ways...
The computer science world erupted with excitement earlier this week, when an artificial intelligence program made by the Google-owned AI company DeepMind bested the human European champion in the...
View ArticleGoogle DeepMind just beat Europe's Go champion but now it wants to take on...
It was a result that sent shockwaves through the Go community. AlphaGo, the computer created by DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) arm of Google, thrashed European Go champion Fan Hui 5-0 — the...
View ArticleGoogle just beat out Facebook in a race to beat a human in a 2,500-year-old...
In what may be one of the bigger achievements in artificial intelligence since IBM's Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, a computer program developed by the British AI...
View ArticleGoogle's AI is teaching itself how to solve a virtual maze — and it's working...
Not content with mastering centuries-old Chinese board game Go, DeepMind has now pitched an artificial intelligence (AI) agent against a more contemporary game called "Labyrinth."The Google-owned...
View ArticleThese GIFs will convince you that robots won't take over the world any time soon
If you're like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and fear the impending war between humans and killer robots, watch this video.It just may convince you that robots have a long way to come before they're...
View ArticleHow Google's AI is teaching itself to play computer games like a human
Google has made massive strides in refining its artificial intelligence, DeepMind, in just the last year.The most recent example of that fact took place in late January, when DeepMind was able to beat...
View ArticleMicrosoft's latest iPhone app can identify your dog's breed based on a photo...
Microsoft introduced a new app on Thursday that anyone with a dog should play with because it's a lot of fun.It's called Fetch!, and it's available for iPhones and on the web. It uses artificial...
View ArticleMachines may replace half of human jobs
In just 30 years, intelligent machines could replace about half of the global workforce.That was the message Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University and Guggenheim fellow, shared...
View ArticleRobots will steal your job: How AI could increase unemployment and inequality
The future is supposed to be a glorious place where robot butlers cater to our every need and the four-hour work day is a reality.But the true picture could be much bleaker.Top computer scientists in...
View ArticleHere's how the robot in 'Ex Machina' was created for a film with a budget of...
Anyone with an appreciation for artificial intelligence in movies will likely have been impressed with humanoid robot "Ava" in the Hollywood film "Ex Machina.""Ex Machina" was made on a budget of just...
View ArticleFacebook is teaching its AI to read 'Alice in Wonderland' and it has amazing...
Learning to read "Alice in Wonderland" may be the key to teaching machines to understanding the way we speak.At least that is the tactic Facebook is using to impove the language capabilities of M, the...
View ArticleThe Work Terminator — How the rise of AI and robots could kill jobs and boost...
The future is supposed to be a glorious place where robot butlers cater to our every need and the four-hour work day is a reality.But the true picture could be much bleaker.Top computer scientists in...
View Article13 AI researchers reveal the amazing facts that blow their minds
Everyone has that one fact they tell people when they want to blow their minds. Some of the best mind-blowing facts come from scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers have some amazing...
View Article3 massive projects Facebook is working on over the next 10 years
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a live fireside chat in Berlin on Thursday morning to discuss some of his company's most innovative projects.At the end of the interview, the moderator asked...
View Article10 British AI startups to look out for in 2016
Silicon Valley giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are investing more of their time and resources into artificial intelligence (AI) research in the hope that it will improve their existing...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg: We shouldn't worry about AI overtaking humans 'unless we...
Fears of the oncoming artificial intelligence revolution are rampant and growing in Silicon Valley. If it comes down to man versus machine, more tech leaders are starting to worry that it will be the...
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