artificial intelligence

Google DeepMind Wins Second Game Against Go Grandmaster

Go grandmaster was left “speechless” after Google’s DeepMind AI computer won a second game against him. Lee Se-Dol, the reigning human champion of two-player Chinese ...

March 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm by

China Looking at Creating “Precrime” System

When people start to think about digital surveillance and their data stored online, they think about cases such as Apple vs the FBI where modern technology is used to try ...

March 9, 2016 at 9:40 am by

AI Learns to Predict Our Reactions by Reading Fiction

Artificial intelligence systems are becoming more and more advanced, but they still have one major flaw that sometimes causes them to behave unnaturally. The problem is that ...

February 28, 2016 at 2:00 pm by

An AI Tries to Predict the Academy Awards Results

An artificial intelligence system that has in the past successfully predicted the winners of the Super Bowl and the Iowa Caucus has had a stab at predicting the results of the ...

February 26, 2016 at 6:49 pm by

AI Could Make Half the World Unemployed Within 30 Years

A computational engineer has warned that artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed within 30 years, and that he fears for the psyche of the human race, ...

February 14, 2016 at 6:10 pm by

Professor Hawking Warns Technology is the Greatest Threat to Humanity

During this century and beyond, the human race will face its greatest threat ever from the rise of science and technology, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. Hawking told ...

January 19, 2016 at 5:30 pm by

Elon Musk Nominated for Luddite Award Over “Alarmist” Views on AI

Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has had a fine year, capped off with the first successful Earth landing from space of one of his Falcon 9 rockets. The billionaire ...

December 25, 2015 at 9:00 am by

Google AI Bot Thinks the Purpose of Life is to Live Forever

Google researchers had an enlightening conversation with its new advanced artificial intelligence bot, during which they made a startling revelation regarding how computers ...

December 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm by

The Pentagon Wants $15bn Funding for Weaponised AI in 2017

The Pentagon has filed its fiscal budget for 2017, for which it is asking for between $12 billion and $15 billion to fund the development of artificial intelligence weapon ...

December 15, 2015 at 11:30 pm by

Elon Musk and Other Tech Celebrities Want to Prevent AI from Taking over the World

Artificial intelligence and the dangers that it could pose are taken very seriously by some of the world’s most renowned tech experts, including Elon Musk, Peter ...

December 14, 2015 at 12:30 pm by

Tech Giants Back Altruistic $1 Billion OpenAI Project

Some of the most prominent figures and companies in technology, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk, PayPal’s Peter Thiel, plus Infosys and Amazon Web ...

December 12, 2015 at 6:00 pm by

AI Program Beats Average Entrance Exam Scores in Japan College Exam

Artificial Intelligence has been progressing at an impressive rate due to technological advancements in cybernetics. The Institute for Ethics and Emerging ...

November 18, 2015 at 10:00 pm by

Intel Acquires Saffron to Invest in Cognitive Computing

In what seems to be a bid by Intel to catch up with IBM’s recent investments into the field of cognitive computing, Intel has announced their deal to acquire Saffron ...

October 27, 2015 at 2:00 pm by

Professor Stephen Hawking is Scared of AI “Incompetence”

Professor Stephen Hawking has been very vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence – once warning that it could destroy humanity – and now the theoretical ...

October 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm by

Wozniak, Hawking, and Musk Warn Military Against Using Artificial Intelligence

A cabal of over 1,000 experts in the field of computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, and even prominent officers in the US Army, have signed an open letter, hosted ...

July 29, 2015 at 11:00 am by

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