Artificial Intelligence

Agencies Are a Step Closer to Creating Their Own Siri

Siri, Alexa and Facebook chatbots might soon be handling common customer service roles in government.

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Is it Unethical to Design Robots to Resemble Humans?

The more we humanize chatbots, virtual assistants and machines, the more we in turn display human emotions toward them.

Artificial Intelligence

What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like

Facebotlish looks pretty weird to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

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Why 'Skilled in Machine Learning' Should Be the New 'Proficient in Excel' On Your Resume

The only difference? What you bring to table will be more valuable than a pivot tables or color-coded pie charts.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Built an AI System That Learned to Lie to Get What it Wants

Humans are natural negotiators. Machines typically don’t share that affinity, but new research from Facebook’s AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that.

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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?

Humans made a huge cognitive leap when they first sketched figures onto rocks—now, computers are learning to do the same.

Artificial Intelligence

How Apple Sees the Near Future

Siri is set to play a much larger role in the company’s products.

Artificial Intelligence

Inside the Bizarre Human Job of Being a Face for Artificial Intelligence

Amelia is a technology developed by IPsoft to automate some customer service, IT and business processes. She looks very human.

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What the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Government Could Look Like

Cognitive technologies could free up hundreds of hours of government employees’ time.

Artificial Intelligence

How Games Advance Emerging Tech

Strategy games have long been a proving ground for artificial intelligence, but what could driverless cars learn from a hyper-violent video game?

Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence That Doesn't Forget Everything It Knows

Biological systems don't completely freeze up when they encounter a new situation, but computers often do.

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Father of the Internet: 'AI Stands for Artificial Idiot’

Vint Cerf has serious concerns about the military's use of the internet of things.

Artificial Intelligence

The Military is Using Human Brain Waves to Teach Robots How to Shoot

Without even realizing it, soldiers could soon be training robot sharpshooters to take their jobs.

Artificial Intelligence

China’s Sleeping Giant in the Global Artificial Intelligence Race

“Basically, anything you need to do online can be done through WeChat."