A trippy recreation of 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner – rendered from a simple set of digital data by an auto-encoding computer system – was so eerily close to the ...
June 3, 2016 at 12:04 am by Ashley Allen
In the modern age, technological advancements are occurring at a blistering pace and household items are now capable of incredible processing power. The introduction of ...
May 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm by John Williamson
A group of German scientists, presumably jealous of the innate anaesthesia of artificial beings, want robots to feel pain. Researchers from Leibniz University of Hannover aim ...
May 29, 2016 at 11:40 pm by Ashley Allen
AI has a growing place in our society and a number of them are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from humans while performing their tasks. This has been further shown ...
May 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm by Alexander Neil
In the last 4 years since Siri made its debut, the assistant AI has helped and entertained many users of Apple’s iOS-based products around the world. Now, Siri’s ...
May 10, 2016 at 3:20 pm by Alexander Neil
As technology evolves and we integrate it into our everyday lives, the risks that badly programmed software continues to pose a threat to everyone, knowingly or not. While ...
May 9, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Gareth Andrews
When it comes to our information we are all pretty protective. Even when we give it out online, many use alternative accounts and email addresses in order to protect their ...
May 4, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
Microsoft, as part of its new research into storytelling by artificial intelligence, has released CaptionBot, an AI designed to recognise images and add an appropriate ...
April 15, 2016 at 11:30 pm by Ashley Allen
During those late nights when you just feel like a quick bite to eat and your favourite show before hitting the hay, we all feel like quickly ordering something in and ...
April 7, 2016 at 11:40 am by Gareth Andrews
Your Skype chats could just get a little bit smarter thanks to Microsoft’s new array of assistive helper-bots. These bots were on show at Build 2016, where Microsoft ...
March 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Alexander Neil
Remember that crazy TayTweets AI that Microsoft unleashed on the (mostly) innocent users of Twitter recently? The one that quickly pick up the bad habits of many online ...
March 31, 2016 at 11:00 am by Peter Donnell
Microsoft, in trying to launch a customer service artificial intelligence presented as a teen girl, got a crash course in how you can’t trust the internet after the system ...
March 24, 2016 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
So you’ve had a few drinks and decide it would be a great idea to drunk text someone? The next morning you wake up and check your phone to see several responses which ...
March 18, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol was unable to claw back another consolation win in his five-match battle against AlphaGo, with Google’s artificial intelligence winning the series ...
March 15, 2016 at 6:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Google’s amazing Go-playing AI, AlphaGo, has convincingly beaten Lee Sedol in the Google DeepMind Challenge series, shutting out the reigning human champion in only the ...
March 12, 2016 at 9:34 am by Alexander Neil
