Artificial Intelligence – Page 27 of 28

Apr 20, 2016, 9:28 AM

Who’s hot in academia? Semantic Scholar dives more deeply into the data

Baseball players are judged by their batting averages, RBIs, ERAs and other statistics voluminous enough to fill a scorecard. But… Read More

Apr 15, 2016, 9:36 AM

Conversational AI developer Next IT raises new funding as chatbots take off

The world of chatbots is growing quickly. Microsoft and Facebook both have frameworks to let third parties build bots into their chat services.… Read More

Apr 4, 2016, 3:04 PM

Skype teases AI-powered video bots that let you interact with characters and brands

NEW ORLEANS, La. — What would it be like to interact with your favorite video game character in a live… Read More

Apr 4, 2016, 10:30 AM

Why is AI female? How our ideas about sex and service influence the personalities we give machines

Consider the artificially intelligent voices you hear on a regular basis. Are any of them men? Whether it’s Apple’s Siri,… Read More

Mar 31, 2016, 7:15 PM

Robots for sale? Price drop in the android market could open new frontiers for AI

Artificial intelligence and robots are hot topics right now, but will we ever get to the stage we saw 50… Read More

Mar 30, 2016, 1:00 PM

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’

Imagine a future where life’s most boring or dangerous tasks are handled by machines. Time otherwise spent commuting, scheduling appointments, sifting… Read More

Mar 30, 2016, 12:28 PM

Video: Microsoft ‘Seeing AI’ project narrates the world for visually impaired engineer

SAN FRANCISCO — The video that closed out Microsoft’s day one keynote at the Build conference today showing a visually… Read More

Mar 25, 2016, 1:15 PM

Experts work to turn artificial intelligence into a friendly face – but it doesn’t always succeed

Can artificially intelligent robots be our friends? Our helpmates? Our companions? Roboticists and AI researchers are trying to make it… Read More

Mar 13, 2016, 4:43 AM

Human outsmarts AI: AlphaGo program loses a game to Go champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program may have won the $1 million five-game Go match with three straight wins, but Go… Read More

Mar 12, 2016, 12:15 AM

AlphaGo AI program wins $1 million prize in Go showdown with champion Lee Sedol

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program will take home the $1 million prize after winning the first three games in its… Read More

Mar 10, 2016, 6:48 PM

Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is in on a multimillion-dollar campaign to trace the connections between the neurons in a… Read More

Mar 10, 2016, 1:27 AM

AlphaGo AI program gets stronger, beats champion Lee Sedol again in second game of Go showdown

The second game of a million-dollar, man-vs.-machine Go showdown was a real nail-biter, but the outcome was a repeat of the first… Read More

Mar 9, 2016, 12:57 AM

Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program won the first of five Go games in a milestone million-dollar match against South… Read More

Mar 7, 2016, 2:33 PM

Seattle Go players plan watch parties for Google’s man-vs.-machine showdown

This month’s human-vs.-machine Go match between South Korean legend Lee Sedol and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program is a teachable… Read More

Feb 26, 2016, 1:48 PM

Seattle startup Algorithmia builds front desk AI inspired by Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution

This year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a New Year’s resolution to build an artificial intelligence that helps out at… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 1:06 PM

VoiceBox and Samsung announce partnership for S Voice technology

Language technology startup VoiceBox announced a partnership with Samsung to use VoiceBox’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology for Samsung’s S Voice services, including Samsung’s… Read More

Feb 17, 2016, 2:45 PM

IBM Watson AI XPRIZE offers $5M for projects that link humans and computers – but who’ll sign up?

The latest multimillion-dollar tech challenge – known as the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – will be aimed at encouraging collaboration… Read More

Feb 14, 2016, 3:47 PM

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol: Odds are shifting in $1 million man-vs.-machine Go match

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both sides in next month’s big $1 million AI-vs.-human Go match say they’re confident they’ll prevail. But… Read More

Feb 13, 2016, 11:58 AM

AI prophets say robots could spark unemployment – and a revolution

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The robot revolution may put half of us humans out of a job by 2045 – and if… Read More

Feb 11, 2016, 8:44 AM

Watch Google’s AI navigate a 3D maze like a human would

The key to unlocking the power of artificial intelligence is teaching machines to think like humans. Now Google is one step… Read More

Feb 11, 2016, 7:10 AM

Fetch! Microsoft’s latest artificial-intelligence trick is an app to ID dog breeds

Microsoft has used artificial intelligence to release apps that can determine how old people are, whether two people are twins,… Read More

Jan 27, 2016, 10:00 AM

AI software masters the game of Go, takes aim at the world’s top player

Mark another milestone in the rise of the machines: An artificial intelligence program pioneered by Google DeepMind has learned how… Read More

Jan 25, 2016, 8:15 PM

Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence pioneer, dies of brain hemorrhage at 88

Marvin Minsky, the computer scientist who helped blaze the trail for virtual smartphone assistants and other manifestations of artificial intelligence, died of… Read More

Jan 5, 2016, 3:29 PM

Toyota’s research chief just told a CES crowd that there’s a long way to go before self-driving cars safely hit the road

LAS VEGAS — Nearly everywhere you turn at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show people are talking about self-driving cars. But… Read More

Jan 4, 2016, 10:08 AM

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2016 challenge: Create an AI to change the music, check on the baby

Beyond his immense success at forcing you to reconnect with people from high school, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he… Read More

Dec 15, 2015, 3:44 PM

Testing Amy: What it’s like to have appointments scheduled by an AI assistant

I met Amy several months ago when a colleague invited me to a meeting. My first thought was jealousy over… Read More

Dec 11, 2015, 3:36 PM

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from taking over the world

While flying cars and (real) hoverboards may not be coming any time soon, there’s a lot of effort and money… Read More

Nov 3, 2015, 1:28 PM

Smart Reply: Google enlists machine learning to help you robo-reply to email

Weary of spambots, robo-calls and Twitter bots? Google is coming out with an artificial-intelligence tool that’s on your side for… Read More

Oct 9, 2015, 10:50 AM

Review: Amazon’s 4K Fire TV is blazing fast, but Alexa on the big screen is a letdown

We’re spoiled with artificially intelligent companions today. It started with our phones, which were once used for talking to others… Read More

Sep 15, 2015, 11:14 AM

New campaign launches to save us from harmful, lonely life of sex with robots

Robots and artificial intelligence are all the rage these days — taking over our jobs, maybe even destroying the planet… Read More