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These ever-so-edgy novelists are using artificial intelligence to spit out new books. We're over it, to be perfectly honest.
Artificial Intelligence

Novelists Have a Boring New Gimmick: Writing Dull Books With AI

By Jon Christian

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Research Supergroup Just Added Its First Chinese Firm

By Kristin Houser

How to Generate (Almost) Anything is collaborating with their custom AI systems to bring bizarre foods, clothes, and art into the real world.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Researchers Bringing Bizarre AI Creations to Life

By Dan Robitzski

It's easy to fall for all of the marketing and hype, but artificial intelligence isn't half as robust as many want you to believe.
Artificial Intelligence

You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does

By Dan Robitzski

MIT announced a billion-dollar initiative Monday that will reorganize the tech school to confront the rise of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Pledges $1 Billion to Develop Ethical AI

By Jon Christian

The number of AI-trained job-seekers simply isn't high enough to meet the demand for these employees, according to a new Reuters report.
Artificial Intelligence

A Shortage of Trained Job-Seekers Is Holding AI Back

By Kristin Houser

Google withdrew itself from the running for the Pentagon's JEDI contract, but the reasons it gave for the move are worth questioning.
Google

Google Won’t Bid on Pentagon Contract, but Not Just Because Employees Wanted It To

By Kristin Houser

Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: To Understand an Algorithm, Treat It Like an Animal

By Jon Christian

Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?
Artificial Intelligence

Glimpse: Why Are Tech Companies Pouring Money Into Instant Translators?

By Luke Kingma

Training a neural net to decode a person's brain signals and send them to a robotic limb led to better, precise control over prosthetics.
Brain

A Neural Network, Connected to a Human Brain, Could Mean More Advanced Prosthetics

By Dan Robitzski

Google DeepMind built the largest-scale generative adversarial network to date. The algorithm can make photorealistic pictures of burgers and dogs.
Google

Google Used Its Most Sophisticated AI yet to Create Pictures of Burgers

By Dan Robitzski

A series of neural nets wrote a novel based on what it saw and heard while being driven around the country. It's, uh, interesting.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Took a Road Trip and Wrote a Terrible Novel About It

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an AI that can identify a person with 92 percent accuracy after recording just seven consecutive footsteps.
Artificial Intelligence

Tread Lightly: This AI Can Identify You by Monitoring Your Footsteps

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

This AI Stops People From Lighting up Cigarettes at the Gas Pump

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

This Musician Created an AI to Write Songs For Him, And They’re Pretty Strange

By Kristin Houser

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think
Artificial Intelligence

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think

By Dan Robitzski

Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore
Artificial Intelligence

Alphabet AI Is Helping Release Sterile Mosquitoes in Singapore

By Kristin Houser

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Dreams Up Brain Tumor Scans to Train Other AIs

By Kristin Houser

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News
Artificial Intelligence

A New Contest Is Looking For AI That Can Fix How We Get Our News

By Dan Robitzski

AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens
Exobiology

AI Just Detected 72 Radio Bursts That Could Come From Aliens

By Kristin Houser

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses
Artificial Intelligence

If Artificial Intelligence Only Benefits a Select Few, Everyone Loses

By Dan Robitzski

Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect Our Future.
Artificial Intelligence

Op-Ed: We Gave Corporations Our Data. Now They’re Deciding How AI Will Affect Our Future.

By Daniel Wagner

Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans
Artificial Intelligence

Drone Racing: The Next Battleground For AI to Try to Dominate Humans

By Kristin Houser

The Most Far-Out Statements From Elon Musk’s Wide-Ranging Interview With Joe Rogan
Elon Musk

The Most Far-Out Statements From Elon Musk’s Wide-Ranging Interview With Joe Rogan

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence agents in a simulated environment developed became biased against dissimilar agents without any outside influence.
Artificial Intelligence

Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own

By Dan Robitzski

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Could Be The Key To Longevity [Affiliate]

By Peter H. Diamandis

Artificial intelligence will change life for the better. But there are reasons to be cautious as well. Five experts tell Futurism what most worries them.
Artificial Intelligence

Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new kind of artificial intelligence is able to recognize and remember objects in a way that's a lot more like humans and a lot less like algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence

New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created an AI that can predict the location of earthquake aftershocks far more accurately than the best available model.
Google

Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely

By Kristin Houser

Humanity is terrible at planning for the distant future. If we build advanced artificial intelligence, it might save us from ourselves.
Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could

By Dan Robitzski

A panel of venture capitalists and other experts on financing AI startups agree: to get a truly general AI system, governments will need to step up.
Artificial Intelligence

If We Ever Want Artificial General Intelligence, Governments Need To Invest In It

By Dan Robitzski

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand
Artificial Intelligence

The World’s First Digital Teacher Just Debuted in New Zealand

By Kristin Houser

During a major tournament for the strategy game DOTA 2, human gamers emerged victorious over OpenAI Five, a team of five neural networks.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Couldn’t Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own

By Kristin Houser

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.
Artificial Intelligence

Should Evil AI Research Be Published? Five Experts Weigh In.

By Dan Robitzski

AI-Generated Art Will Go On Sale Alongside Human-Made Works This Fall
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Art Will Go On Sale Alongside Human-Made Works This Fall

By Kristin Houser

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair
Artificial Intelligence

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair

By Dan Robitzski

Director Tony Kaye's next movie with have a robot star, an AI-powered bot that he claims will be trained in acting techniques.
Artificial Intelligence

A Robot Will Become A Real-Life Movie Star

By Kristin Houser

Anew AI developed by MIT researchers can prescribe the minimum effective dose for patient with an aggressive type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Make Sure Cancer Patients Get Just Enough (but Not Too Much) Treatment

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI than can find scientists that deserve (but don't have) Wikipedia pages, helping close the site's gender gap.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Shining a Spotlight on Women Scientists That Were Previously Overlooked

By Kristin Houser

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

By Kristin Houser

Google unveiled the Enterprise Edition of Google Glass. Instead of unleashing it on the public, they think it will help factory workers.
Google

Google Glass Is Back, And May Have Finally Found A Place It Belongs

By Dan Robitzski

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron
Artificial Intelligence

AI Coaches Are Here To Unleash Your Inner LeBron

By Dan Robitzski

Australian researchers have created a purposefully biased AI to illustrate the problems such systems could cause in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

The “Biometric Mirror” Judges You The Way We’ve Taught It To: With Bias

By Kristin Houser

DARPA has announced a new program focused on funding projects focused on third wave AI, the kind that can understand and explain its answers.
Artificial Intelligence

DARPA Is Funding Research Into AI That Can Explain What It’s “Thinking”

By Kristin Houser

That major pledge against building autonomous killing machines is a great start, but it has some glaring holes in what it covers.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Leaders Who Pledged Not To Build Autonomous Killing Machines Are Ignoring The Real Problem

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. military's AI center will help the nation's armed forces develop and implement the latest in artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Military Declares Mandate on AI: “We Want to Be the Threat”

By Kristin Houser

A Spanish tech startup decided to ditch artificial intelligence to make its chatbot platform more approachable
Artificial Intelligence

This New Startup Is Making Chatbots Dumber So You Can Actually Talk to Them

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech
Meta

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech

By Victor Tangermann

Hundreds of AI experts just signed a pledge vowing to never develop lethal autonomous weapons and calling for their global ban.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Experts Vow They Won’t Help Create Lethal Autonomous Weapons

By Kristin Houser

The next movie you watch could have been performed, edited, and recommended by artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Automating Hollywood. Now, Art Can Thrive.

By Dan Robitzski

DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI’s Ability to Reason
Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI’s Ability to Reason

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: AI Can Now Fix Your Grainy Photographs Without a “Clean” Reference
Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: AI Can Now Fix Your Grainy Photographs Without a “Clean” Reference

By Kristin Houser

This Scientist Predicted He Would Live to 150. Now He’s Not So Sure.
Health & Medicine

This Scientist Predicted He Would Live to 150. Now He’s Not So Sure.

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: The Next Telemarketer You Hang up on Might Be Google’s Duplex AI
Google

The Digest: The Next Telemarketer You Hang up on Might Be Google’s Duplex AI

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: This AI Analyzes Ash to Figure out the Cause of a Volcanic Eruption
Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: This AI Analyzes Ash to Figure out the Cause of a Volcanic Eruption

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: With AI, Forecasters Can More Accurately Predict Storms And Save Lives
Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: With AI, Forecasters Can More Accurately Predict Storms And Save Lives

By Kristin Houser

Yes, Google’s Phone-Calling AI Is Cool. But Why Does It Exist?
Google

Yes, Google’s Phone-Calling AI Is Cool. But Why Does It Exist?

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Consciousness: How To Give A Robot A Soul
Neuroscience and Brain

Artificial Consciousness: How To Give A Robot A Soul

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?
Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: Yes, China Is Winning the A.I. Race, Because How the Hell Could They Lose It?

By Foster Kamer

IBM’s Debater AI Is Impressive, But It Won’t Conquer Humanity
Artificial Intelligence

IBM’s Debater AI Is Impressive, But It Won’t Conquer Humanity

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s AI Can Predict When A Patient Will Die
Google

Google’s AI Can Predict When A Patient Will Die

By Victor Tangermann

Watch This Autonomous Car Carefully, Safely Weave Through A Crowd of Pedestrians
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch This Autonomous Car Carefully, Safely Weave Through A Crowd of Pedestrians

By Dan Robitzski

Was That Script Written By A Human Or An AI? Here’s How To Spot The Difference.
Artificial Intelligence

Was That Script Written By A Human Or An AI? Here’s How To Spot The Difference.

By Dan Robitzski

Google Created AI That Just Needs A Few Snapshots To Make 3D Models Of Its Surroundings
Google

Google Created AI That Just Needs A Few Snapshots To Make 3D Models Of Its Surroundings

By Dan Robitzski