Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that studies intelligent systems (i.e. software, computers, robots, etc.). Alternatively, it may be defined as "the study and design of intelligent agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".
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OpenAI's new language bot is scary good at predicting text - perhaps too good
OpenAI's new system can generate surprisingly convincing text to follow any sample you throw at it, like a news article headline. ...
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Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think
Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing ...
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Let’s not accidentally build depressed robots
In trying to keep up with the never-ending deluge of news about the forthcoming AI takeover of human society, a talk at ...
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Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest
Nvidia's incredible people-creating AI is now available online. Now you can create startling images of people who do not ...
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AI will soon decide what we eat
Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...
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How to help AI find human trafficking victims
If you could help rescue human trafficking victims by downloading a free app and taking a selfie in the next hotel room you ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Portugal
It might be everyone’s dream to move to Portugal. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, and weather. Its vibrant startup scene is now another reason to add to the list. Like in neighboring Spain, the country was hit hard with a headache-inducing unemployment rate that was concentrated ...
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Blockchain and AI could be a perfect match – here's why
With blockchain technology and AI converging with the greater public there's never been a better time to explore the convergence ...
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Politicians have failed us, it's time for AI to stop school shootings
Thoughts, prayers, and politicians have proven ineffective against the threat of school shootings. It's time to demand schools ...
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A deadly tree disease is devastating the citrus industry – AI can help
The citrus tree is in trouble. Florida's citrus industry has been devastated and California's is next. Artificial intelligence ...
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How AI could help you learn sign language
Sign languages aren’t easy to learn and are even harder to teach. They use not just hand gestures but also mouthings, facial ...
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Devs say real blockchain use is coming, but many feel it's overhyped
We’re likely to see a real-world application of blockchain technology over the next two years – if recent research is ...
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Biased algorithms: here’s a more radical approach to creating fairness
Our lives are increasingly affected by algorithms. People may be denied loans, jobs, insurance policies, or even parole on ...
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This (free) 'future of tech' webinar will get you your next raise
Artificial intelligence, the blockchain, Internet of Things. You know you’ve heard these terms about a thousand times but ...
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How AI will change storytelling and become the next great art form
We spoke to Fable founder and executive producer Edward Saatchi about the future of VR, art, entertainment and AI. Get ready ...
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How DeepMind's AI defeated top players at StarCraft II
In August 2017, DeepMind decided to take on a much bigger and more complex challenge: training an AI to master Starcraft ...
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How AI, blockchain, and wearables are changing the face of healthcare
Several major classes of technology stand a good chance of changing healthcare as we know it. Home healthcare, in particular, ...
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The challenges of moderating online content with deep learning
Earlier in December, the internet was abuzz with news of Tumblr’s declaration that it would ban adult content on its platform ...
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The security threats of neural networks and deep learning algorithms
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. History ...
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AI isn’t here to steal your job, it’s here to make it better
The belief that AI will displace jobs has been well countered with arguments that AI actually empowers workers to focus on ...
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10 ways to prepare for the AI and automation revolution
Artificial intelligence and automation are no longer the stuff of science fiction; they're a very real and growing ...
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Facial recognition struggles to interpret the emotions of black faces
Facial recognition technology has progressed to a point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type ...
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Why AI can't solve everything
The hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. There seems to be no shortage of sensationalist ...
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YouTube is cracking down on dangerous pranks and stunts like the Bird Box challenge
YouTube has published new policies for its platform that state it won't allow content depicting dangerous pranks and stunts ...
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3D-printed sex robots are cheaper and more lifelike than ever
This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection ...
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Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K
People can pledge $10,000 to be the first person to have sex with a robot at Eve’s Robot Dreams brothel in California after ...
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Deepfakes are being weaponized to silence women — but this woman is fighting back
Noelle Martin, a 24-year old, has had a six-year long battle with deepfakes after an anonymous predators stole and sexually-exploited ...
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Stop worrying about AI taking over the world — it won’t
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...
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US Army's defense of killer robots sounds like the plot to War Games
The US Army has an incongruous message on its development of autonomous weapons systems. Did we learn nothing from the 1980s? ...
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Why researchers want to build an AI that can predict a person’s attractiveness
It's an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” ...
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Governments need to embrace AI for the good of the people
AI has already taken the private sphere by storm, with massive corporations, dynamic startups, and even our own living rooms ...
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Personalized marketing will be huge in 2019
Personalization has come a long way since Amazon started leveraging personalized book recommendations in 1999. Half of companies ...
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Nefarious AI creates images of delicious food that doesn't exist
Ever think those pictures of delicious food you see on the internet are too good to be true? What if they were made by an ...
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IBM teaches AI to debate humans by crowdsourcing arguments
IBM's AI wants to take on all-comers in debates on every topic. But, first, its going to crowdsource its arguments from humans ...
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Don’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human language
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s ...
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What Amazon’s Alexa microwave teaches us about interacting with AI assistants
Does it make sense to put a voice assistant in your microwave? Amazon, the leader in smart speakers and voice assistants, ...
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How driverless cars choose who to kill is an ethical dilemma
Slowly but surely, work on self-driving cars is progressing. Crashes still happen, tragic accidents come to pass every once ...
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We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI
“Now that we realize our brains can be hacked, we need an antivirus for the brain.” Those were the words of Yuval Noah ...
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Intel introduces a new project for laptops with 5G and AI
Chipmaker Intel announced a program named "Project Athena" to encourage hardware makers to create laptops with AI and 5G ...
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Here's what AI experts think will happen in 2019
Another year has passed and humanity, for better or worse, remains in charge of the planet. Unfortunately for the robots, ...
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AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity
One could be forgiven for thinking that machines are creative. Numerous artificial intelligence projects appear to demonstrate ...
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Why AI and advertisers should team up to fix fake news
Can technology, and artificial intelligence in particular, be the foil that will prevent the eventual fakenewspocolypse?
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How a group of students discovered the sounds of solar storms
The students discovered a loud crunching noise followed by a series of whistling sounds whose pitch decreased. This event ...
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We’re missing the ‘Skynet’ to complete our connected robot future
Throughout history, innovators have strived to create automata, or robots as we now know them, to augment labor intensive ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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2018 proved that computer vision is the most powerful manifestation of AI
You probably use computer vision every day and don't even think about it. Enjoy checking out the latest Snapchat filters? That's ...
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We should teach human rights law to software engineers
Technology dominates a large amount of our lives and software engineers should be taught about human rights laws to avoid ...
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3 ways AI will improve healthcare in 2019
In a recent piece, I explained why AI’s complexity shouldn’t be a deterrent for its adoption. In fact, I went as far ...
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Moving beyond 'all models are wrong' and into rational AI
Can AI ever be "rational"? We examine work discussing the idea of AI that can surpass human's limited ability for rational ...
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Researchers developed an AI robot that can assist with childbirth
Instead of looking up at the sky to see whether you need an umbrella, people increasingly ask virtual assistants such as ...
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Expert says AI-driven sex robots will blow you... away
The only possible culmination of AI research is packing it neatly inside a synthetic body and having sex with it. Or, at ...
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AI sex dolls are just around the corner
The sex doll industry is on the verge of greatness, in its own special way. Soon the Stepford Wives of science fiction will ...
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Microsoft's Hummingbird app uses AI to deliver a personalized news feed
Microsoft has quietly released an AI-based news app called Hummingbird on Google Play and Apple’s App Store. It's currently ...
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5 ways AI can be an ally for human rights over the next decade
Happy Universal Human Rights Day! We came up with five ways we think AI will help us in the fight for all of humanity over ...
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Someone paid $432K for art generated by an open-source neural network
A "painting" that was supposedly created by artificial intelligenc just sold at Christie's for more than $432K. Whoever bought ...
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Nvidia open sources its PhysX physics simulation engine
Nvidia has made its PhysX engine open source, which means anyone can integrate into their games, as well as projects involving ...
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Researchers developed an AI to detect DeepFakes
Earlier this year AI-generated fake videos became an instant scourge as DeepFake, a face-swapping neural network was used ...
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Experts warn DeepFakes could influence 2020 US election
We're only a few months away from the November US midterm elections and DeepFakes is poised to pose a major threat in this ...
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Fairies and deepfakes: a brief history of visual trickery
“Deepfake” is the name being given to videos created through artificially intelligent deep learning techniques. Also ...
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Here’s what your phone can learn from the sound of your voice
It can determine everything from who you are and where you come from, your current location, your gender and age, and what ...
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DeepMind's AlphaZero AI is the new champion in chess, shogi, and Go
DeepMind, has developed an AI named AlphaZero, which can learn and master games like chess, Go, and shogi just through basic ...
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Experts warn AI could hardwire sexism into our future
From Apple's Siri to Amazon's Alexa, voice recognition and AI assistants are typically female by default. Technology isn't ...
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Nvidia's new AI converts real-life videos into 3D renders
We've often wondered while playing games or experiencing virtual reality: how can this be closer to the real world? Nvidia ...
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How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters
Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...
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To achieve ethical AI, we need better training and boundaries
Autonomous decision-making systems are in place already today, including ones that support life-critical scenarios and travel. ...
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Full moon patents: MIT creates glowing plants and Amazon gets better drones
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...
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The difference between AI and machine learning, explained
A while ago, while browsing through the latest AI news, I stumbled upon a company that claimed to use “machine learning ...
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Genies makes realistic looking Bitmoji that can be used in other apps
Genies has launched their new Android and iOS mobile app that lets users create a digital version of themselves that looks ...
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If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
It's been two tumultuous years. Still, it's highly unlikely we've witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, ...
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Email on mobile sucks, but it’ll get better in the next 10 years
The problem is the medium itself - mobile communication has aspired to take over the entirety of our business communication. ...
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Shark S87 robotic cleaning system: A great vacuum with bad AI
I remember a time not so long ago where robot vacuums would set you back $1,000 or more and prove more work than they were ...
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Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...
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AI-algorithms identify pedophiles for the police — here’s how it works
AI is a promising weapon against sexual child abuse.
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AI’s success hinges on new attitudes — not old regulations
We need to stop regulating machine learning models as if they were computer programs, and start thinking about how to use ...
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Amazon’s sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
Amazon has decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated ...
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Chelsea FC is using AI research to improve coaching
My colleagues and I are working with Chelsea FC academy to develop a system to measure these decision-making skills using ...
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AI is the prescription for overworked doctors
AI startup CloudMedX is attempting to change the healthcare paradigm with solutions designed to help physicians treat the ...
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When your boss knows everything about you
Big data and algorithmic decision making have become an indispensable part of the human resources toolkit at companies.
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s ...
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Understanding quantum computers: The noise problem
Quantum computing doesn't have to be harder than getting drunk. That's why we explain one of its biggest problems with beer. ...
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overused term in our language and has many different meanings from mathematics to sewing to machine learning -- ...
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Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship
Wired 25 was attended by some of the biggest names in tech, and Amazon and Google's bosses both took the opportunity to get ...
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How will AI affect my faith and religion in general?
It's thought that AI could have three possible effects on religion: it enhances religion, it becomes religion, or it invalidates ...
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How to filter marketing fluff from startups’ AI promises
For anyone looking to engage with AI startup companies, the prevalence of marketing fluff can make it difficult to move forward. ...
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How to woo your robot recruiter and land your dream job
The way you speak — including the use of positive language — is a key evaluation factor for many AI programs.
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Rapid scaling can ruin your startup — so fix these technical problems now
In the grand scheme of things, everything has been going perfectly to plan. Your product or service launch has been a success, ...
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We need to build AI systems we can trust
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are routinely being used to support human decision-making in a multitude of applications. ...
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Our antidepressants are changing animals' behavior
A recent study has revealed that antidepressants are changing animals' behavior. Female fish fed food spiked with the drug ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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An entrepreneur’s guide to Toronto's tech scene
If you’re interested in the Canadian tech scene, Toronto is on your radar. Certainly the hype surrounding this tech scene ...
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Worried about AI taking over the world? Science isn't
Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? For me, this is a simple question with an even simpler, two letter answer: ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution
From beating us at the game of GO, to recreating paintings by Van Gogh, algorithms are all around us. Artificial Intelligence ...
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AI has already been weaponized – that’s why we need to ban ‘killer robots’
A dividing line is emerging in the debate over so-called killer robots. Many countries want to see new international law ...
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Deebot Ozmo 930 is the robot vacuum you've been waiting for
As smart vacuums go, there's a lot of space between the very best, and the very worst. The Deebot Ozmo 930, by Ecovacs, belongs ...
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Hollywood did a surprisingly good job predicting our drone future
When it comes to predicting the future, Hollywood has turned out to be accurate. Robots and even smartwatches have been in ...
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Google just turned 20 -- time for it to grow up
Google's birthday may be a happy one for shareholders, but the rest of us have plenty of cause for alarm and concern as the ...
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Blockchain doesn't kill people, but smart contracts can, law professor says
Smart contracts, like the ones featured by Ethereum’s blockchain, represent simple machine intelligence, and one academic ...
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Human intelligence and AI are vastly different — so let’s stop comparing them
These days, it’s easy to believe arguments that artificial intelligence has become as smart as the human mind—if not ...
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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees
Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...
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Developing bionics: How IBM is adapting mind-control for accessibility
IBM Research is developing artificial intelligence tools to create a brain-computer interface for people suffering from conditions ...
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Inside Google's plan to stalk your social media accounts
Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn't about another in a failed ...
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An AI that 'hears' machine failure might soon be used for roller coasters
Smart or predictive technologies can change how amusement parks plan maintenance and help prevent unexpected downtime.
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Bitcoin thrown lifeline by SEC Commissioner despite ETF rejection
Another application to allow trade of Bitcoin ETFs has been shot down by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ...
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This company changes the DNA of investing — through machine learning
While the largest financial institutions in the world are using machine learning to create advanced investment practices, ...
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Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data
In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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AI is finding out when the person using your account isn't you
To some, the future of authentication might look a little creepy. But the explosion of data and connectivity will provide ...
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Quick guide to understand the hype around ‘deep learning’
You’ve probably heard the phrase 'deep learning' bandied about in conversation, or maybe you've read about it in a post ...
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The $24 billion chatbot industry sucks because it needs better AI
In 2014, WIRED would profile a “boring” company called Slack beginning a media and venture-based obsession with bringing ...
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This startup can teach a car how to drive itself in 20 minutes
Wayve, a startup out of the UK, is revolutionizing the field of autonomous vehicles by eschewing expensive hardware for refined ...
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This AI uses sight to isolate the sound of specific instruments
If you've ever learnt an instrument, straining to hear what your favorite musician is playing under the din of other players ...
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Scientists created an artificial neural network out of DNA
Caltech researchers created a functioning artificial neural network out of DNA. It can read patterns based on handwritten ...
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7 surprising companies where you can work on cutting-edge AI technology
While automation slowly eats away at human jobs, the demand for AI talent continues to grow at an accelerating pace. Here ...
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AI can now ‘listen’ to machines to tell if they’re breaking down
Sound is everywhere, even when you can’t hear it. It is this noiseless sound, though, that says a lot about how machines ...
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Google Photos now creates shareable GIFs from your videos
Google has updated its Photos service with neat new features today - most notably, the ability to automatically generate ...
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Gain a competitive career advantage and learn the powers of machine learning and data science
With its reach increasing, it’s time for the tech-savvy to start truly understanding the global implications of these technologies ...
