Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene

We worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?

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Alexa, Can You Tell Me About GSA's Virtual Assistant Pilot?

The Emerging Citizen Technology Office is trying to help other agencies develop their own AI-powered projects.

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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Says One of the Top Threats to US Jobs Is “Not Even on Our Radar Screen”

He believes it's too remote to even think about

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Nextgov Event: All in on Artificial Intelligence

On Thursday, we’ll explore advancements in AI policies and applications across both civilian government and the national security apparatus.  

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Robots Are Coming to Your Home: Here's What to Expect

Robots hitting the market soon might one day be a part of your family.

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Google’s DeepMind Has a Plan for Protecting Private Health Data—From Itself

It's next problem is how to assure hospitals, and the public at large, that patient confidentiality isn’t compromised.

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A Rogue Robot is Blamed For Human Colleague’s Gruesome Death

Usually when people worry about machines and work, they are concerned automation will take away their livelihoods, not their lives.

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The Optimist’s Guide to the Robot Apocalypse

Widespread unemployment due to technology has never materialized before.

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MIT’s New Robot Reads Your Thoughts and Knows When It Made a Mistake

Instead of taking over for a computer, typing instructions onto keyboards, or speaking them aloud, what if you could just think them?

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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus

Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.

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Microsoft’s AI is Learning to Write Code by Itself, Not Steal It

The algorithm would be able to augment its own ability by also looking at potential combinations of code for how a problem could be solved.

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Podcast: How the Government is Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work

While the private sector puts AI to use in eye-catching projects, the government is taking a different path.

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Automation Is Coming For You Too

65 percent of survey respondents agreed that their job was safe from automation.

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China Is Funding Baidu to Take on the US in Deep-Learning Research

The amount of funding was not disclosed.

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We Tested Bots Like Siri and Alexa to See Who Would Stand Up for Herself in the Face of Sexual Harassment

Digital assistants have to deal with a lot.