Artificial Intelligence

If an AI Creates a Work of Art, Who Owns the Rights to It?

AI also raises some thorny issues by potentially impinging on the IP rights of others.

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For the First Time, AI Crushed a Professional Dota 2 Player

“This guy is scary,” the human player repeated during play as the bot whittled down his health.

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AI Will Make Fake News Video — and Fight It As Well

Just weeks after one research team appeared to put words in a leader’s mouth, here comes a new tool that can check questionable video for a pulse.

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Which Digital Assistant Reigns Supreme?

It's Siri vs. Google Assistant vs. Bixby.

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Is That Really You Typing? New DOD Tech Will Know

In its quest to drop common access cards, the Defense Department is piloting an authentication system based on the nuances of users' typing.

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How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path

Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.

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To Improve AI, Scientists May Have to Make it Worse

Machine learning today isn’t great at knowing when it should hold on to old information, and when those data have become outdated.

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The Mars Robot Making Decisions on Its Own

Thanks to artificial-intelligence software, the Curiosity rover can target rocks without human input.

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Low-Skill Workers Aren’t Actually the Ones Most Threatened by Robots

Thanks primarily to automation, and to a lesser extent globalization, no rich country’s middle-skilled workers are safe.

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How Not to Win an AI Arms Race With China

A lawmaker’s proposal to curb Chinese investment in U.S. artificial-intelligence firms has more than a few critics.

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Agencies Are a Step Closer to Creating Their Own Siri

Siri, Alexa and Facebook chatbots might soon be handling common customer service roles in government.

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Is it Unethical to Design Robots to Resemble Humans?

The more we humanize chatbots, virtual assistants and machines, the more we in turn display human emotions toward them.

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What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like

Facebotlish looks pretty weird to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to