Artificial Intelligence

The EU Is Exploring Legal Personhood for Robots

For the time being, robots don’t need civil rights—they have a hard enough time walking, let alone marching—but the European Union doesn’t expect that to be the case forever.

Artificial Intelligence

Video: A Steering Wheel for Self-Driving Cars

This gives white-knuckle driving a new meaning.

Artificial Intelligence

Skills Your Kids Should Cultivate to Be Competitive in the Age of Automation

Perceptive and emotional AI is developing fast.

Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Want a Robot to Steal Your Job? Be Creative

Cheap computing power and rapidly advancing AI mean that machines already outperform us on tasks that involve retaining, processing and repeating rule-based information. 

Artificial Intelligence

If You’ve Been Stuck in an Airport Because of Delays Recently, You Already Know How Bad a Highly Automated Society Will Be

We, in the U.S. at least, live in a world where we often can’t talk to humans, even when we want to.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Want to Know What Alleged Murderer’s Amazon Echo Heard, on the Night of the Crime

A reminder that our smart devices can also be used against us.

Artificial Intelligence

In the Race to Build the Best AI, There’s Already One Clear Winner

Almost every major tech company is partnered up with Nvidia and uses its hardware.

Artificial Intelligence

BlackBerry Is Now a Self-Driving Car Company and Plans to Spend Like One

The company is currently testing autonomous vehicles on public Canadian roads.

Artificial Intelligence

Is Cybersecurity the Next Frontier for AI?

One contractor is chasing the federal market by investing more in cyber tech.

Ideas

Top Emerging Tech Every CIO Should Watch for in 2017

The risk of becoming irrelevant has never been greater. It’s the role of chief information officers to look beyond today's solutions and be ready for what lies ahead.

Artificial Intelligence

How Virtual Reality Could Be Used to Save Lives

Think these technologies are too futuristic for the government? Not anymore.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Plan is to Flood Your Entire Life With Artificial Intelligence

The company has released a deluge of AI-bolstered features in its operating system and standalone software.

Artificial Intelligence

Ebook: 2017 Federal IT Trends Forecast

Hint: Expect cyber, data and emerging technologies such as virtual reality to remain in the spotlight, while areas like customer service will see less momentum.

Artificial Intelligence

Truckers Think Automation Won’t Take Their Jobs for 40 Years. Silicon Valley Strongly Disagrees.

The disconnect about the timing for the arrival of such technology, and the political forces it may unleash, reveals a massive split in how the groups believe the transport industry will evolve.

Artificial Intelligence

Uber’s New AI Team Is Looking for Shortest Route to Self-Driving Cars

Data has become the currency of artificial intelligence—conventional wisdom says the more information your machines can learn from, the better they’ll be. But what if Uber could do less with more?