Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Is Fixing a Simple Reason Why Voice Assistants Are So Bad
The tech company hopes to smarten up our dumb bots by making a new dataset available to the public.
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'We Do Not Have Long to Act': Elon Musk and Others Warn the U.N. About Autonomous Weapons
The prospect of tanks, machine guns and drones that think for themselves becoming widespread is giving tech luminaries the heebie-jeebies.
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If an AI Creates a Work of Art, Who Owns the Rights to It?
AI also raises some thorny issues by potentially impinging on the IP rights of others.
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For the First Time, AI Crushed a Professional Dota 2 Player
“This guy is scary,” the human player repeated during play as the bot whittled down his health.
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Andrew Ng Will Help You Change the World With AI if You Know Calculus and Python
If the next era of human progress is built using AI, who gets to engineer it?
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AI Will Make Fake News Video — and Fight It As Well
Just weeks after one research team appeared to put words in a leader’s mouth, here comes a new tool that can check questionable video for a pulse.
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Amazon Could Replace CAPTCHA With a Turing Test You’re Meant to Fail
Amazon could soon rely on our little mistakes to prove we’re human.
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Artificial Intelligence Can Make Voice Technology Less Frustrating
Using AI, a caller can carry on a normal, plain-language conversation with a system that is able to understand the request and help respond to it.
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Which Digital Assistant Reigns Supreme?
It's Siri vs. Google Assistant vs. Bixby.
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Is That Really You Typing? New DOD Tech Will Know
In its quest to drop common access cards, the Defense Department is piloting an authentication system based on the nuances of users' typing.
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It Will Take Human-Machine Teams to Fight Cyber Threats, McAfee CTO Says
Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans, but it will change the way they work.
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How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path
Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.
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DOD Officials: Use AI-Fueled Systems to Inform Policy-Makers, Not To Kill
Artificial intelligence is taking on a growing role in intelligence analysis in North Korea.
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MIT Researchers Can Now Track AI’s Decisions Back to Single Neurons
AI researchers have had a breakthrough.
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If You’re Not a White Male, Artificial Intelligence’s Use in Health Care Could Be Dangerous
AI has the potential to revolutionize health care, if done right.
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Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Perceptions Matter As Much As Reality
The average person's opinion matters.
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To Improve AI, Scientists May Have to Make it Worse
Machine learning today isn’t great at knowing when it should hold on to old information, and when those data have become outdated.
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The Mars Robot Making Decisions on Its Own
Thanks to artificial-intelligence software, the Curiosity rover can target rocks without human input.
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Low-Skill Workers Aren’t Actually the Ones Most Threatened by Robots
Thanks primarily to automation, and to a lesser extent globalization, no rich country’s middle-skilled workers are safe.
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