artificial intelligence

Amazon’s Alexa Now in Home Robot Form with the Omate Yumi

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is now in an interesting new form factor: inside an adorable robot. Omate, who is known for their smart watch, offers the Yumi at a starting ...

November 19, 2016 at 7:30 pm by

Researchers Accuse Elon Musk of Irresponsible Representation of AI

Electric car and clean energy magnate Elon Musk is a famed investor in artificial intelligence, though, at every opportunity, he has expressed great concern over the future of ...

November 14, 2016 at 10:45 am by

Google AIs Create Their Own Encryption

Research by Google’s deep learning project has revealed that its artificial intelligence systems are capable of creating their own bespoke encryptions to share private ...

October 28, 2016 at 10:00 pm by

AI Accurately Predicts Outcome of Human Rights Cases

Artificial intelligence has become more sophisticated during the last decade and able to mimic human behaviours rather well. Of course, there’s a certain level of ...

October 24, 2016 at 12:15 pm by

Researchers Building AI Based on Joey from Friends

A team of researchers from Leeds University are building an artificial intelligence based on the character of Joey Tribbiani – played by Matt LeBlanc – from the sitcom ...

October 21, 2016 at 10:20 pm by

Google DeepMind AI Can Now Learn on its Own

DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Google parent company Alphabet, is now capable of learning from its own memory without input from its programmers, the ...

October 17, 2016 at 7:03 pm by

Raspberry Pi AI Beats Human Fighter Pilot in Simulation

An experienced former US Air Force officer was beaten in a simulated fighter plane dogfight against an artificial intelligence running on a Raspberry Pi. ALPHA – the AI ...

July 1, 2016 at 11:40 pm by

Robot Deliberately Harms its Creator

Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics famously states: “A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Tell that to ...

June 17, 2016 at 6:00 pm by

Google Building “Big Red Button” to Prevent Skynet

If you believe Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking, The Singularity – the point at which artificial intelligence outgrows the human race – will trigger ...

June 4, 2016 at 12:13 am by

Professor Claims Computers Might Need ‘Human Rights’

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

Grad Students Fooled by AI Teaching Assistant

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

The White House Scared of Badly Programmed AI

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

Microsoft’s ‘CaptionBot’ Adds Incorrect Captions to Your Favourite Pictures

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

Microsoft’s “Teen Girl” AI Becomes Incestuous Nazi-Lover

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

Google’s AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series 4-1

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

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