Artificial Intelligence

The First Hacker to Jailbreak an iPhone Has Now Created a Self-Driving Car

The hacker has now received $3.1 million in funding.

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Microsoft's Chatbot Became a Racist Jerk After Less Than a Day on Twitter

Tay started out by asserting that “humans are super cool.” But the humans it encountered really weren’t so cool.

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What Exactly is a Robot?

This has become an increasingly difficult question to answer, yet it’s a crucial one.

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Slack Is Working on Manager Bots That Will Automatically Check up on Employees

In the future, you won’t be bugged by your manager over Slack for status updates on your work. Slack itself will be bugging you.

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Can You Trust a Robot?

People think machines are taking everyone’s jobs. Except their own.

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Robots 1, Humans 0: Google DeepMind Is Now Two Go Games Away From Making AI History

The game was once considered beyond the reach of artificial intelligence programs.

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MIT Built a Donald Trump AI Twitter Bot that Sounds Scarily Like Him

The AI was trained on a few hours of Trump’s speeches.

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IARPA Wants Smarter Algorithms -- Not More of Them

Program Director Jacob Vogelstein told Nextgov why IARPA is investing in new training for AI systems.

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The President Needs to Issue an Executive Order Banning the Use Killer Robots

A Yale bioethicist says the United Nations won’t stop killer robots, but the United States could right now start setting a few rules limiting their development and use.

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How Can You Train AI to Get Smarter? The Intelligence Community Wants to Know

IARPA wants to guard against an "AI winter," during which there's less research and less funding for AI.

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The Army Has Made a Robot Cockroach

Biologically inspired robot bugs could be the next big thing in intelligence collection.

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Should We Fear an AI Arms Race?

Five reasons the benefits of defense-related artificial intelligence research outweigh the risks—for now.

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New Competition Seeks Robots That Can Handle a To-Do List

NIST is looking for a way to evaluate a robot's agility before it gets deployed on a factory floor.

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Google’s AI Just Cracked the Game that Supposedly No Computer Could Beat

The ancient board game Go has long been one of the major goals of artificial intelligence research.

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Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build an AI Butler

The Facebook CEO was inspired by Marvel superhero Iron Man

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Robots are Key to Pentagon’s Defensive Cyber Operations Strategy

To gain an edge on the battlefield, artificial intelligence is increasingly necessary.

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We Need a New Pronoun for Artificial Intelligence

Pick your favorite: “bleep” or “bloop.”

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Meet the Military-Funded AI that Learns as Fast as a Human

Today, it recognizes handwriting; tomorrow, it may vastly improve the military’s surveillance and targeting efforts.