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The stock performance of companies in the semiconductor sector has been spectacular this year. -
I was surprised to hear that a robot named Sophia was granted citizenship by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The announcement last week followed the Kingdom’s commitment of $500 billion to build a new city powered by robotics and renewables. One of the most honorable concepts for a human being, to be a citizen and […]
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An endless debate continues to rage over whether or not robots are taking our jobs, as advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have made machines smarter and capable of replacing humans in a variety of increasingly complex tasks. But if history tells us anything, the future won’t see a mere replacement of human labor […]
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Investors and stock traders are paying close attention to President Donald Trump’s Twitter account for good reason: His tweets can move markets. They can even use computer algorithms to capture these tweets and make more money. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin’s stock took a hit in December last year, losing nearly $4 billion in market value, shortly after Trump […]
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Venture capital (VC) firms reduced their investments in startups last year after the record year in 2015. The dollar amount of VC funds received by startups in the United States fell by 20 percent in 2016, and the deal activity also tumbled 16 percent year-on-year, according to the Q4 2016 MoneyTree report by consulting firm PwC […]
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Baidu Inc.’s standing amongst China’s elite internet triumvirate is on shaky ground as the company battles slowing sales growth, regulatory uncertainty, and an ongoing cash burn from diversification.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time, and people are still waiting for the first C-3PO (a character from “Star Wars”) to be released. Looking at the money big tech companies and venture capitalists are pouring into the sector, AI is making huge progress, although the investors are looking for different things […]
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The billionaire founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk, has said before that a hostile artificial intelligence (AI) is a real concern of his. He even called it probably “our biggest existential threat,” talking at an MIT symposium two years ago. “With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk said, without going into much detail about […]
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This is Sophia. Hanson Robotics developed her for human-robot interaction. It can remember your face, has cameras in its eyes so it can recognize faces and make “eye contact,” and can also understand speech. David Hanson, CEO of Hanson Robotics, said such robots can help people in areas of “healthcare, therapy, education, and customer service.” He predicts that […] -
What can we learn about the nature of consciousness from studying newborns, brain injured people, those in altered states of consciousness?
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For years, chess was considered not just a game, but a spiritual exercise as well, an activity that tapped into an essential element in the human mind.
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In 1952, a computer program mastered tic-tac-toes. More than 40 years later, in 1994, it solved checkers. IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Now, the latest algorithms can easily defeat the world's leading players.
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Did you know that there was a study conducted to see if someone from the future was here in our present time? Astrophysicists Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson at Michigan Technology University did just that.
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Making a thinking machine would be creating consciousness. Or would it?
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Voice recognition software continues to transform our lives in very real and important ways.
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Don't blame the weatherman for wrong forecasts. Blame chaos theory.
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You can let Google's artificial intelligence write email replies for you.
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In January this year Microsoft announced the HoloLens, a technology based on virtual and augmented reality (AR).
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Stephen Hawking continues his crusade for AI safety in a long-awaited Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit, stating that the groundwork for such protocols needs to start not some time in the distant future, but right now.
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A new artificial intelligence system can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student.
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A deep learning artificial intelligence algorithm figured out how to play chess better than most humans in just three days.
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While diagnostic software is still in its infancy, it is making steady progress that, if continued apace, could allow machines to overtake humans in our lifetime. Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have progressively replaced humans in one profession after another: automated systems made telephone operators extinct, ATMs have decimated the ranks […]
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We normally don't think of computers as things with personalities. People have personalities, computers are judged by metrics: their processing power, the time they take to perform a task, and how accurately they complete it.
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A large number of themes emerged including cyborg soldiers, autonomous weapons, and cognitive modeling of the enemy. But one observation was repeated again and again: hackers will play a decisive role in the wars of the future.
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Scientists and tech experts — including Prof. Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — warned Tuesday of a global arms race with weapons using artificial intelligence
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AI researchers warn that killer robots may be as ubiquitous in the 21st century as AK-47s were in the 20th.
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Between 2000 and 2013, robotic equipment played a role in 144 surgery-related deaths in the United States, according to an analysis of records kept by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The findings were first presented at the annual meeting of the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons as a retrospective on the state of robotic […]
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