Artificial Intelligence

Tomorrow’s Intelligent Malware Will Attack When It Sees Your Face

IBM researchers have injected viruses with neural nets, making them stealthier and precisely targetable.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Four M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles are illuminated by the rising sun in a motor pool located at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, July 19, 2018. Four M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles are illuminated by the rising sun in a motor pool located at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, July 19, 2018.

How Artificial Intelligence Could Keep Army Transports Ready for Action

A yearlong pilot program will see if AI can predict when components on Bradley Fighting Vehicles will break.

  • By Jack Corrigan

What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails

Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.

  • By Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic
“Dota 2” cosplayers at a Moscow event in 2016. “Dota 2” cosplayers at a Moscow event in 2016.

OpenAI’s Bots Thrashed Former Professional E-Sports Players at Dota 2

The bots won two of the three matches played.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Microsoft’s Politically Correct Chatbot Is Even Worse Than Its Racist One

Zo has an uncompromising approach which shuts down conversation.

  • By Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin, Quartz

Report: IBM Watson AI Recommended Unsafe Cancer Treatments

The system was trained using hypothetical scenarios.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

The ACLU Used Amazon’s Facial Recognition And It Labelled Congress Members As Criminals

The ACLU is using this demonstration to call for a moratorium on police use of facial-recognition technology.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed Up Medical Breakthroughs

The move is part of the agency's STRIDES initiative, which gives researchers more access to cloud tools.

  • By Jack Corrigan

AI Scanner Can Distinguish Whether An Iris is Living or Dead

No word if the technology works on zombies.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Google Docs Is Finally Catching Up to Microsoft Word … 20 Years Later

It’s about time.

  • By Simone Stolzoff, Quartz

Google Is Building “Virtual Agents” to Handle Call Centers’ Grunt Work

The company is working with at least a dozen partners.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

IBM Extends Watson Partnership With VA to Support Veterans With Cancer

Watson will keep using AI to spot patterns in patient DNA.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

Google DeepMind Researchers Join Pledge Not to Work in Lethal AI

Thousands of AI researchers sign letter forgoing work on autonomous weapons.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

Pentagon Plans to Publish Broad Artificial Intelligence Strategy ‘Within Weeks’

The report will focus on long-term plans and how it will funnel resources to developing the technology, a Defense official said.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Google Is Using AI to See Inside the Brain Like Never Before

New data might help neuroscientists better understand the structure of the brain.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

Pentagon Sets Big Goals for Its New AI Center

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will be the hub for all projects that exceed $15 million.

  • By Jack Corrigan

AI Is Getting Closer to Replacing Animal Testing

The algorithm can predict results from nine different tests.

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz

China, Russia, and the U.S. Are All Building Centers for Military AI

But their burgeoning approaches to state-sponsored research are divergent as the countries themselves.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

U.S. Needs a National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, Lawmakers and Experts Say

The government is well-positioned to flag specific research areas that would have the biggest impact on national interests.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Alexa Makes Decision-Making Easier Than Ever—By Making Your Choices For You

But what does that mean for consumers?

  • By Adam Gerhart, Quartz