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Video: Can the AI Behind AlphaGo Teach Us About Humanity?
One decision at a time.
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Video: Meet the AI That Will Kill Siri and Order Pizza for You
Viv is coming to a smartphone near you.
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White House Envisions an Artificially Intelligent Government
A working group plans to convene next week to discuss AI pilots.
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Robots Are Starting to Learn by Touch
The experiment one day could allow artificial intelligence to learn about the physical environment through all senses.
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Elon Musk’s AI Group Has Set Up a 'Gym' to Train Bots
OpenAI Gym is meant to be used as a benchmarking tool for artificial intelligence programs.
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Vint Cerf: Buggy Software Is Scarier Than A Robot Takeover
Google's chief internet evangelist doesn't think our current AI technology is capable of taking over humans.
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Artificial Intelligence Flexes its Cognitive Muscle
Could we program a cognitive computer to examine the problem of cancer, or the yearly flu outbreak, balancing the federal budget or just finding a way to reduce traffic congestion around the city?
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The First Hacker to Jailbreak an iPhone Has Now Created a Self-Driving Car
The hacker has now received $3.1 million in funding.
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Microsoft's Chatbot Became a Racist Jerk After Less Than a Day on Twitter
Tay started out by asserting that “humans are super cool.” But the humans it encountered really weren’t so cool.
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What Exactly is a Robot?
This has become an increasingly difficult question to answer, yet it’s a crucial one.
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Slack Is Working on Manager Bots That Will Automatically Check up on Employees
In the future, you won’t be bugged by your manager over Slack for status updates on your work. Slack itself will be bugging you.
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Can You Trust a Robot?
People think machines are taking everyone’s jobs. Except their own.
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Robots 1, Humans 0: Google DeepMind Is Now Two Go Games Away From Making AI History
The game was once considered beyond the reach of artificial intelligence programs.
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MIT Built a Donald Trump AI Twitter Bot that Sounds Scarily Like Him
The AI was trained on a few hours of Trump’s speeches.
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IARPA Wants Smarter Algorithms -- Not More of Them
Program Director Jacob Vogelstein told Nextgov why IARPA is investing in new training for AI systems.
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The President Needs to Issue an Executive Order Banning the Use Killer Robots
A Yale bioethicist says the United Nations won’t stop killer robots, but the United States could right now start setting a few rules limiting their development and use.
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How Can You Train AI to Get Smarter? The Intelligence Community Wants to Know
IARPA wants to guard against an "AI winter," during which there's less research and less funding for AI.
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The Army Has Made a Robot Cockroach
Biologically inspired robot bugs could be the next big thing in intelligence collection.
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Should We Fear an AI Arms Race?
Five reasons the benefits of defense-related artificial intelligence research outweigh the risks—for now.
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