Investment firm Leonie Hill Capital’s proprietary artificial intelligence program has predicted that anti-mass migration Front National presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will shock the world with a stunning electoral victory.
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk explained to an audience at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday why humans will need to merge with machines to keep up in an AI-dominated world.
Up to 250,000 public sector workers in the UK could be replaced by robots over the next 15 years as the development of artificial intelligence surges, according to a recent study.
Google Brain’s neural networks are now capable of “hallucinating” images from heavily distorted pictures.
Sex doll manufacturer RealDoll is creating an AI system which will allow users to customize their sex doll’s personality and create a relationship with it over time.
British scientists have created an artificial intelligence program that can allegedly predict when a patient with heart problems will die.
Tech innovation is set to move from the Age of Obama, which focused on the needs of high-density urban residents, to the Age of Trump, which will focus on the needs of lower-density suburban residents.
Some of the tech world’s elites have come together to fund research that hopes to protect humanity from the rise of artificial intelligence.
The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs has voted favorably on a draft report which proposes giving legal personage to robots.
Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance added some fuel to the discussion of jobs threatened by computers with its year-end announcement that nearly a third of its staff would be replaced by an artificial intelligence, eliminating 34 jobs and saving almost $2 million per year.
In Japan, the future is now. A Japanese insurance company has begun to trade some of their “white collar” employees for an IBM artificial intelligence.
The White House released a new report this week entitled Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy, as part of an admirable but very flawed initiative to understand the impact of the new technology on American employees.
Google Brain’s Neural Network AI has reportedly created its own universal language, which allows the system to translate between other languages without knowing them.
MogIA, an artificial intelligence system and election predictor, has successfully predicted its fourth election in a row.
MogIA, an artificial intelligence system that has correctly predicted the outcomes of the last three U.S. presidential elections, predicts that Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States.
(Reuters) — Artificial intelligence programs have beaten chess masters and TV quiz show champions. Next up: stock market cheats.
Using an “artificial brain,” Google DeepMind researchers have developed a new voice synthesizing technique they claim is at least 50% closer to real human speech than current text-to-speech (TTS) systems in both US English and Mandarin Chinese.
A Russian robot with artificial intelligence and programmed to learn may be destroyed following its second attempt at escaping its creators.
Team members at Google are currently developing a “kill switch” to prevent artificial intelligence from becoming a threat to humans.
Good news, kids! You might live forever, unless you get terminated by a self-aware killer robot, in which case you can haunt the hell out of that trigger-happy android by uploading your ghost to the Internet.
The Obama administration wants to use more artificial intelligence to solve the problems with big government.
Being a pharmacist has for decades been one of the most respected and highest paying jobs, but apps and robotics now threaten to make most pharmacists obsolete.
Researchers at UCLA have invented a method using a microscope augmented by artifical intelligence to detect cancer cells quicker and more accurately than current techniques.
In a major foreign policy speech, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the U.S. needs to make better use of “3D printing, artificial intelligence, and cyberwarfare.”
The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.
Zoltan Istvan is the most intriguing presidential candidate you’ve never heard of. While those at the forefront of the 2016 race talk about defeating ISIS, Istvan is taking on beating death itself. Recently, I had a chance to talk to him.
Microsoft has issued an apology over their creation of an artificial intelligence program behind a Twitter account that began to post and retweet racist remarks.
Microsoft is attempting to create a more intelligent and intuitive type of artificial intelligence by training computers to play Minecraft efficiently on their own, it announced in an official blog post.
The development of computer systems that could hold their own against chess grandmasters was a major step toward the development of artificial intelligence. Another step was taken when Google’s AlphaGo program beat grandmaster Lee Se-Dol at Go, the far more complex Chinese strategy game. AlphaGo’s designers professed themselves astounded by its victory, which arrived a decade earlier than they anticipated.
Contents: Google’s AlphaGo computer defeats world champion at game of Go; Despite rapid growth of ISIS in Libya, West cannot agree on a strategy
(AFP) — A Google computer’s stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.
Robotics, once the almost exclusive purview of science fiction, is now approaching a point at which it will be capable of dramatic influence over humanity. These advancements are as much a lesson in caution as in the wonder of the human imagination.
Contents: China’s game of Go beaten by Google’s AI software program AlphaGo; Google DeepMind’s Go algorithm uses massive pattern matching neural networks; Google’s AI technology will soon start taking people’s jobs
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to create an artificial intelligence that can manage his household, help him run his company, and even keep an eye on his child.
Contents: 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence; The debate about preventing the Singularity; Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change; Proof that the Singularity will occur by 2030
Science fiction has considered the question of artificial intelligence since the very beginning — what is the subject of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein if not an artificial intelligence, made from organic parts instead of metal?
Silicon Valley billionaires, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman announced on Friday that they are planning to help commit $1 billion to an Artificial Intelligence centre in San Francisco. OpenAI, the official name of the project, is said to
The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.
While awarding the medal of freedom to director Steven Spielberg and other celebrities, President Obama jokingly suggested that the director of movies like “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and “Lincoln” should make one about his presidency.
He doesn’t seem to be polling terribly well at the moment, but “transhumanist atheist” Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job. Scott Beauchamp of the Pacific
