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This Aid Agency Is Using Chatbots to Beat World Hunger

Turning smartphones and social media into lifelines for the most vulnerable of refugees.

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Vladimir Putin Believes Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Global Monopolies and Drone Wars

Russian companies have been actively researching autonomous weapons, such as drones, robots and missiles, which would be able to pick targets and fire on their own.

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3 Questions: Artificial Intelligence and the Military

AI has moved from the movies to the laboratory, and governments around the world want it in their arsenals. We asked how militaries define it, and how they intend to keep it under control.

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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack AI’s Decisions

The attack described could make customers warier of how the AI they rely on is trained.

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Feds Take Next Step In Spreading Blockchain Tech

The federal government's buying hub is hosting a workshop about integrating new technology in early September.

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We’re Experiencing the Harry Potterification of Technology

Everyday objects are becoming enchanted as if they’ve been torn from the pages of a Rowling novel.

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Microsoft Is Fixing a Simple Reason Why Voice Assistants Are So Bad

The tech company hopes to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public.

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'We Do Not Have Long to Act': Elon Musk and Others Warn the U.N. About Autonomous Weapons

The prospect of tanks, machine guns and drones that think for themselves becoming widespread is giving tech luminaries the heebie-jeebies.

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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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Andrew Ng Will Help You Change the World With AI if You Know Calculus and Python

If the next era of human progress is built using AI, who gets to engineer it?

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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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Amazon Could Replace CAPTCHA With a Turing Test You’re Meant to Fail

Amazon could soon rely on our little mistakes to prove we’re human.

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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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It Will Take Human-Machine Teams to Fight Cyber Threats, McAfee CTO Says

Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans, but it will change the way they work.

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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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DOD Officials: Use AI-Fueled Systems to Inform Policy-Makers, Not To Kill

Artificial intelligence is taking on a growing role in intelligence analysis in North Korea.

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MIT Researchers Can Now Track AI’s Decisions Back to Single Neurons

AI researchers have had a breakthrough.

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If You’re Not a White Male, Artificial Intelligence’s Use in Health Care Could Be Dangerous

AI has the potential to revolutionize health care, if done right.