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Why 'Skilled in Machine Learning' Should Be the New 'Proficient in Excel' On Your Resume
The only difference? What you bring to table will be more valuable than a pivot tables or color-coded pie charts.
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Facebook Built an AI System That Learned to Lie to Get What it Wants
Humans are natural negotiators. Machines typically don’t share that affinity, but new research from Facebook’s AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that.
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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?
Humans made a huge cognitive leap when they first sketched figures onto rocks—now, computers are learning to do the same.
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How Apple Sees the Near Future
Siri is set to play a much larger role in the company’s products.
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Inside the Bizarre Human Job of Being a Face for Artificial Intelligence
Amelia is a technology developed by IPsoft to automate some customer service, IT and business processes. She looks very human.
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Tax the Robots? 'No Way,' Says EU Official Tasked With Preparing Europe For a Digital Future
He believes a tax would discourage automation technologies from staying and innovating in Europe.
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Robots of the Future Will Learn Just Like They Do in Star Trek’s Holodeck
When future robots enter the world, they won’t have a learning curve.
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How Games Advance Emerging Tech
Strategy games have long been a proving ground for artificial intelligence, but what could driverless cars learn from a hyper-violent video game?
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DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence That Doesn't Forget Everything It Knows
Biological systems don't completely freeze up when they encounter a new situation, but computers often do.
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The Next Big Step for AI is Getting Out of the Cloud and Onto Your Phone
AI on your phone will be faster and more secure.
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Father of the Internet: 'AI Stands for Artificial Idiot’
Vint Cerf has serious concerns about the military's use of the internet of things.
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The Military is Using Human Brain Waves to Teach Robots How to Shoot
Without even realizing it, soldiers could soon be training robot sharpshooters to take their jobs.
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Automation Could Boost Federal Productivity—And Save $41B a Year
Federal employees could focus their attention complex tasks instead of email.
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The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation
No, they’re not in the Rust Belt.
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What Will We Do When Robots Have Taken Our Jobs?
Automation could affect our mental health as well as our salaries.
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China’s Sleeping Giant in the Global Artificial Intelligence Race
“Basically, anything you need to do online can be done through WeChat."
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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.
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Robots Don’t Have to Take Over Jobs in Order to Be a Problem for Workers
“I think full automation is a big red herring."
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How Should We Treat Our Military Robots?
Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them.
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