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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.
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How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
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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.
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The Next Big War Will Turn on AI, Says US Secret-Weapons Czar
William Roper says the military must get better at feeding the voracious learning algorithms that will fight future battles.
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In the Great Robot Job Takeover, Women Are Less Likely to Suffer Than Men
Fields such as manufacturing and transport tend to be dominated by men.
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Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?
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Why American Jobs Have a Higher Risk of Automation Than Jobs in Germany, the UK and Japan
You’ve been warned before—robots are coming for your American job.
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Alexa, Can You Tell Me About GSA's Virtual Assistant Pilot?
The Emerging Citizen Technology Office is trying to help other agencies develop their own AI-powered projects.
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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says One of the Top Threats to US Jobs Is “Not Even on Our Radar Screen”
He believes it's too remote to even think about
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Nextgov Event: All in on Artificial Intelligence
On Thursday, we’ll explore advancements in AI policies and applications across both civilian government and the national security apparatus.
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Robots Are Coming to Your Home: Here's What to Expect
Robots hitting the market soon might one day be a part of your family.
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Google’s DeepMind Has a Plan for Protecting Private Health Data—From Itself
It's next problem is how to assure hospitals, and the public at large, that patient confidentiality isn’t compromised.
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Robots Won’t Take Your Job—They’ll Help Make Room For Meaningful Work Instead
A dire view of automation excludes a lot of the story.
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A Rogue Robot is Blamed For Human Colleague’s Gruesome Death
Usually when people worry about machines and work, they are concerned automation will take away their livelihoods, not their lives.
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The Optimist’s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse
Widespread unemployment due to technology has never materialized before.
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‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program.
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MIT’s New Robot Reads Your Thoughts and Knows When It Made a Mistake
Instead of taking over for a computer, typing instructions onto keyboards, or speaking them aloud, what if you could just think them?
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
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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.
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