Digital Government
Slack Can Now Identify Your Company’s Resident Expert in Everything
In other words, it’s going to help you find the right person to talk to.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft’s New Head of Research Has Spent His Career Building Powerful AI—And Making Sure It’s Safe
Eric Horvitz wants to fundamentally change the way humans interact with machines.
Modernization
Satya Nadella’s Biggest Bet for Microsoft Could Be Its Future
The tech giant's cloud computing business continues to be a rising star,
Digital Government
With H-1B Under Threat, Alphabet Is the Only Big Tech Company to Ramp Up Immigration Lobbying
Immigration is a touchstone topic in the technology industry.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Could Build New Drugs Faster Than Any Human Team
Startup Atomwise has built a system which attempts to generate potential drugs for diseases like Ebola and multiple sclerosis.
Digital Government
You Can Now Buy the Brains Behind Amazon’s Alexa
The deep neural networks that power Amazon’s popular voice assistant are up for sale.
Artificial Intelligence
Jeff Bezos Lays Out Amazon’s Three-Pronged Approach to AI
Amazonians and investors alike, rest assured: Jeff Bezos knows artificial intelligence is a big deal.
Artificial Intelligence
The Public Debut of Facebook’s M is a Tiny Step Toward a Do-It-All AI Assistant
M will analyze each of your messages to detect whether you’re looking to send a sticker, request or send money, get a ride, or share your location.
Artificial Intelligence
America’s Largest Body-Camera Supplier Is Giving Police Free AI to Analyze Crime Footage
CEO Rick Smith says these connected systems would allow police to spend more time doing their jobs, rather than paperwork.
Artificial Intelligence
NASA’s Scientists Formed a Club to Dream Up Uses for AI Like Self-Replicating Robots and Harpooning Comets
Some ideas developing in the lab are so far-flung, the brains behind them don’t want to involve the agency’s top brass at all.
Digital Government
Self-Driving Cars Will Be Much Safer But a Nightmare to Insure
The technology that enables autonomy is expensive.
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Agree on What AI is, Because Nobody Knows What the Term Really Means
There are generally two schools of thought when talking about whether software today is a form of artificial intelligence: literalists and generalists.
Digital Government
Software Used to Predict Crime Can Now Be Scoured for Bias
Predictive-policing startup CivicScape published its code online, allowing anyone to help ensure the algorithm doesn’t unfairly target certain groups of people.
Digital Government
A DNA Computer Has a Trillion Siblings and Replicates Itself to Make a Decision
To date these machines have only been theoretical.
Digital Government
The Most Striking Thing About the WikiLeaks CIA Data Dump Is How Little Most People Cared
There’s one other big difference between now and 2013.
Digital Government
Google Will Always Answer Your Questions, But You Shouldn’t Always Let It
When you punch a common question into the search bar on Google, you’re presented now with an answer emphasized above all the others. Is it correct?
Modernization
Amazon Broke the Internet Because Its System Couldn’t Handle a Typo
Amazon has already modified its S3 system to avoid this problem again in the future.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft’s AI is Learning to Write Code by Itself, Not Steal It
The algorithm would be able to augment its own ability by also looking at potential combinations of code for how a problem could be solved.
Artificial Intelligence
Alphabet’s Hate-Fighting AI Doesn’t Understand Hate Yet
Hate is tricky to teach to software.
Modernization
Amazon Argues That Alexa Is Protected By the First Amendment in a Murder Trial
Police in Arkansas are seeking 48 hours worth of recordings and responses made by an Amazon Echo.
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