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Microsoft’s New Head of Research Has Spent His Career Building Powerful AI—And Making Sure It’s Safe
Eric Horvitz wants to fundamentally change the way humans interact with machines.
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Robots Don’t Have to Take Over Jobs in Order to Be a Problem for Workers
“I think full automation is a big red herring."
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How Should We Treat Our Military Robots?
Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them.
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What's Next in Federal Technology?
Download Nextgov's ebook on emerging tech trends impacting the federal government and how it delivers services to citizens.
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Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to AI could change that.
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People Are Scared of Artificial Intelligence For All the Wrong Reasons
According to one survey, people are most afraid of robots in their home.
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Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley
When virtual assistants almost pass as human, they only seem more robotic.
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Artificial Intelligence Could Build New Drugs Faster Than Any Human Team
Startup Atomwise has built a system which attempts to generate potential drugs for diseases like Ebola and multiple sclerosis.
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Hitachi Built an AI Security System That Follows You Through a Crowd
It’s being developed to help make you safer, says Hitachi.
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Jeff Bezos Lays Out Amazon’s Three-Pronged Approach to AI
Amazonians and investors alike, rest assured: Jeff Bezos knows artificial intelligence is a big deal.
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No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?
Economists say somewhere between 9 percent and 47 percent of workers in the West could lose jobs to automation over the next two or so decades.
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Amazon Is Making It Easier for Companies to Track You
In a letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos wrote about how the company is making machine-learning tools widely available.
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How A.I. Will Redefine Human Intelligence
Machines aren’t just infiltrating the human world, they’re altering our perception of what people can do.
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The Public Debut of Facebook’s M is a Tiny Step Toward a Do-It-All AI Assistant
M will analyze each of your messages to detect whether you’re looking to send a sticker, request or send money, get a ride, or share your location.
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America’s Largest Body-Camera Supplier Is Giving Police Free AI to Analyze Crime Footage
CEO Rick Smith says these connected systems would allow police to spend more time doing their jobs, rather than paperwork.
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NASA’s Scientists Formed a Club to Dream Up Uses for AI Like Self-Replicating Robots and Harpooning Comets
Some ideas developing in the lab are so far-flung, the brains behind them don’t want to involve the agency’s top brass at all.
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How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Agree on What AI is, Because Nobody Knows What the Term Really Means
There are generally two schools of thought when talking about whether software today is a form of artificial intelligence: literalists and generalists.
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