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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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Alphabet’s Hate-Fighting AI Doesn’t Understand Hate Yet
Hate is tricky to teach to software.
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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.
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Want to Chat with Shakespeare? AI Bots Will Soon Allow Us to Talk to the Dead
New chatbot programs are being developed to keep our knowledge active after our physical being passes away.
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The Post-Human World
A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari
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The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes, Says Bill Gates
It’s a striking position from the world’s richest man and a self-described techno-optimist who co-founded Microsoft.
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Outgoing DOD CIO: 'There's Still A Lot of Work To Do'
Terry Halvorsen expects AI to play a greater role in cybersecurity soon.
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By Sparring With AlphaGo, Researchers Learn How an Algorithm Thinks
Even the smartest humans miss patterns that computers see instantly.
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China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
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Tech Companies Are Building Tiny, Personal AIs to Keep Your Messages Private
We can carry these algorithms around on our smartphones and smartwatches
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Intel is Hiring American Workers to Make High-Tech Chips That Could Displace American Workers
The company says it's creating "3,000 high-paying, high-wage, high-tech jobs”
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Why Experts Worry Algorithms Can Do More Harm Than Good
A Pew report suggests corporations and governments could misuse algorithms.
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Facebook Isn’t Developing a General AI, But Wrote a Paper About How it Would if it Were, Which it’s Not
Actual general AI is still a pipe dream.
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Facebook Quietly Used AI to Solve Problem of Searching Through Your Photos
To make photos searchable, Facebook analyzes every single image uploaded to the site, generating rough descriptions of each one.
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