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The EU Is Exploring Legal Personhood for Robots
For the time being, robots don’t need civil rights—they have a hard enough time walking, let alone marching—but the European Union doesn’t expect that to be the case forever.
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Video: A Steering Wheel for Self-Driving Cars
This gives white-knuckle driving a new meaning.
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Skills Your Kids Should Cultivate to Be Competitive in the Age of Automation
Perceptive and emotional AI is developing fast.
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Don’t Want a Robot to Steal Your Job? Be Creative
Cheap computing power and rapidly advancing AI mean that machines already outperform us on tasks that involve retaining, processing and repeating rule-based information.
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Why Injecting Personality in Technology Makes People Angry
Talking bots make people mad, product designers have found.
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$27M Fund Wants Artificial Intelligence with a Conscience
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman kicked in $10 million.
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If You’ve Been Stuck in an Airport Because of Delays Recently, You Already Know How Bad a Highly Automated Society Will Be
We, in the U.S. at least, live in a world where we often can’t talk to humans, even when we want to.
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Police Want to Know What Alleged Murderer’s Amazon Echo Heard, on the Night of the Crime
A reminder that our smart devices can also be used against us.
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Apple’s First Research Paper Tries to Solve a Problem Facing Every Company Working on AI
It addresses a core problem: training a machine takes a huge amount of data.
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In the Race to Build the Best AI, There’s Already One Clear Winner
Almost every major tech company is partnered up with Nvidia and uses its hardware.
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White House: AI Could Disrupt Millions of Jobs, and Policy Needs to Adjust
The spread of artificial intelligence won't be "costless," a new report says.
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Researchers Push Limits of Machine Learning by Programming Robot to Fold Laundry
It won't really save you time.
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BlackBerry Is Now a Self-Driving Car Company and Plans to Spend Like One
The company is currently testing autonomous vehicles on public Canadian roads.
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Is Cybersecurity the Next Frontier for AI?
One contractor is chasing the federal market by investing more in cyber tech.
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How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Save Lives
Think these technologies are too futuristic for the government? Not anymore.
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Microsoft’s New Plan is to Flood Your Entire Life With Artificial Intelligence
The company has released a deluge of AI-bolstered features in its operating system and standalone software.
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Ebook: 2017 Federal IT Trends Forecast
Hint: Expect cyber, data and emerging technologies such as virtual reality to remain in the spotlight, while areas like customer service will see less momentum.
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Truckers Think Automation Won’t Take Their Jobs for 40 Years. Silicon Valley Strongly Disagrees.
The disconnect about the timing for the arrival of such technology, and the political forces it may unleash, reveals a massive split in how the groups believe the transport industry will evolve.
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Uber’s New AI Team Is Looking for Shortest Route to Self-Driving Cars
Data has become the currency of artificial intelligence—conventional wisdom says the more information your machines can learn from, the better they’ll be. But what if Uber could do less with more?
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