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• Scientists just 'proved' that it's easier to influence children with robots than adults

  You know that terrifying study making the rounds that says our children are at risk of being influenced by robots? It's not ...

  • Tristan Greene

• WEF warns: AI could lead to collapse in the global financial system

  There's little doubt that artificial intelligence will reshape the world as we know it. It'll revolutionize the way we do business, communicate, and even raise our kids. Presumably, the benefits of AI will outweigh the bad, but a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Researchers teach Hearthstone bot to dominate Legend rank players

  Hearthstone pros beware: the robots are coming for your crowns. A team of researchers from the University of Warsaw are working ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Microsoft and Amazon launch preview for cross-device collaboration between Alexa and Cortana

  Amazon and Microsoft hope you'll help them teach Cortana and Alexa to play nicely together. Starting today you can sign up for a preview that'll let you run the virtual assistants on each others' respective devices. Announced last fall, the collaboration is finally here in limited ...

  • Tristan Greene

• DeepMind says its AI can detect eye diseases as well as human doctors

  DeepMind says it's now ready to show off its new AI, which can detect more than 50 different eye diseases as accurately as ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Researchers teach autonomous cars to deal with irrational humans

  The race is on for AI developers to figure out how to best integrate humand and machine drivers. It turns out that courtesy ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The Meg's giant shark is an AI-powered marvel

  The summer box office gets another hit in Warner Bros. "The Meg." So how does a prehistoric monster come to life? Why, artificial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AI-powered robot can spot Waldo in 4.5 seconds

  Need help finding Waldo? This robot has got your back, as its AI is good enough to spot the elusive, stripey figure faster ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Microsoft's AI can convert images into Chinese poetry

  Microsoft researchers recently unveiled a new ability for XiaoIce: it's a Chinese language poet that's inspired by images. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The Pentagon finally has an AI strategy -- too little too late?

  The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is finally up and running, which is good, but the White House still doesn't ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook mistakenly celebrated a devastating earthquake

  Facebook was recently forced to apologize -- yeah, I know, again -- for inadvertently celebrating the deadly Indonesian earthquake on Sunday. It's not the first time the company has shown how tasteless it can be in the face of a natural disaster. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Uber's 'Real-time ID Check' doesn't deal well with transgender drivers

  Companies like Uber seem perfectly willing to deploy artificial intelligence software they know to be biased as long as it ...

  • Tristan Greene