Artificial Intelligence

Tech Companies Are Building Tiny, Personal AIs to Keep Your Messages Private

We can carry these algorithms around on our smartphones and smartwatches

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Intel is Hiring American Workers to Make High-Tech Chips That Could Displace American Workers

The company says it's creating "3,000 high-paying, high-wage, high-tech jobs”

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Why Experts Worry Algorithms Can Do More Harm Than Good

A Pew report suggests corporations and governments could misuse algorithms.

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Facebook Quietly Used AI to Solve Problem of Searching Through Your Photos

To make photos searchable, Facebook analyzes every single image uploaded to the site, generating rough descriptions of each one.

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Alphabet’s Boston Dynamics Is Working on a Robot Its Founder Calls 'Nightmare Inducing'

The company's latest creation takes things a step further.

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Silicon Valley Is Right—Our Jobs Are Already Disappearing

It's happening with the development of artificial intelligence, robotics, software and automation.

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Scientists Are Weaving Futuristic Artificial Muscles Using Traditional Textile Techniques

These fake muscles move like human muscles and can be worn under clothing.

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Video: Look for This Robot Barista on Your Morning Commute

A different kind of handmade.

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How Sexy Tech Could Tackle Some of Government's 'Boring' Jobs

At first, artificial intelligence may tackle repetitive jobs and ease backlogs.

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A Massive AI Partnership Is Tapping Civil Rights and Economic Experts to Keep AI Safe

The Partnership is now the most high-profile, comprehensive, and mainstream organization considering how AI will shape our future.

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Your Smartphone Could Soon Be a Powerful Tool for Detecting Skin Cancer

Get ready for the weirdest selfie you'll ever take.

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The Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone

Researchers have created creepy sounds unintelligible to humans but still capable of talking to phones’ digital assistants.

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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.