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Sep 30, 2014

Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat'

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is concerned about artificial intelligence. In fact, the inventor of the private spaceflight company SpaceX and the car company Tesla says that AI is humanity's biggest existential threat. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence, Musk said in response to an audience question...

Nov 30, 2015

Computers Plus Crowds Could Tackle World's Toughest Problems

The world's most dire problems, such as climate change and global conflicts, could be solved using a combination of human and computer intelligence, researchers say. Human outperform machines at many tasks, such as recognizing images and thinking creatively. So, with the help of computers, crowds of people could collaborate in...

Jun 30, 2015

Stephen Hawking on Reddit: Ask Him a Question on Artificial Intelligence

If you have any questions about Terminators, Cylons or other human-robot hybrids, now is the time to ask them. For the next nine days, Stephen Hawking will be taking the Internet's queries about all things related to artificial intelligence (AI). Hawking is answering questions via Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA)...

Feb 28, 2017

Teen-Programmed AI Spits Rhymes Like Kanye West

On a bet from peers in his high school programming club, a teenager in West Virginia taught himself to build an artificial intelligence program that can rap like Kanye West, according to news reports. Seventeen-year-old Robbie Barrat thought that artificial intelligence (AI) could accomplish tasks better than humans, and his...

May 11, 2017

Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov: 20th Anniversary of Epic Chess Match

It took just 19 moves. Today marks the 20th anniversary of an epic chess match between IBM's computer Deep Blue and world chess champion Garry Kasparov. On May 11, 1997, the undefeated Kasparov faced off against the chess-playing machine in the sixth and final game of a hotly contested match....

May 11, 2017

What Is Intelligence? 20 Years After Deep Blue, AI Still Can't Think Like Humans

When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished. This was the first time any human chess champion had been taken down by a machine. That win for artificial...

May 17, 2017

How Bots Acting Randomly Can Help Speed Human Problem-Solving

Software bots that occasionally act randomly can help groups of humans solve collective-action problems faster, new research has shown. Playing a game with someone unpredictable can be annoying, particularly when you're on the same team. But in an online game designed to test group decision-making, adding computer-controlled players that sometimes...

May 31, 2017

Apple Co-Founder Bets on Tesla for Next Tech Breakthrough

Apple may have long ago cemented its status as a technology titan, but Steve Wozniak thinks the next major technological innovation won't come from the company he co-founded. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Canada, Wozniak discussed advancements in the technology sector. One major topic was artificial intelligence, which he...

Jun 1, 2017

Brain-Hacking Tech Gets Real: 5 Companies Leading the Charge

There's been a lot of hype coming out of Silicon Valley in recent months about technology that can meld the human brain with machines. But how will this tech help society, and which companies are leading the charge? Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made waves in March when he...

Jun 13, 2017

Apple CEO Reveals Tech Giant Is Working on AI for Self-Driving Cars

Apple has spent years working on a car project that has been kept shrouded in secrecy — until now. During an interview with Bloomberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the auto industry is experiencing disruption from three avenues: electric cars, ride-sharing companies and self-driving technology. And driverless cars, Cook revealed,...

Jun 22, 2017

Blooming Beasts: Dinosaurs Are Coming Up Roses in AI Artwork

A programmer recently turned to artificial intelligence to create positively charming images of so-called botanical dinosaurs, representations of tyrannosaurs, stegosaurs, triceratops and others, all constructed entirely out of flowers. To generate the unusual effect, coder Chris Rodley used a web app that employs a technique known as style transfer, in...

Jun 30, 2017

Artificial Synapses Could Lead to Smarter AI

Heads up, humanity. Artificial intelligence may be about to get a lot smarter. An international team of scientists has developed a new kind of synthetic synapse for artificial intelligence systems using the neural network model. In artificial neural networks, computing systems are designed to emulate the function of the human...

Jul 17, 2017

Elon Musk: Regulate AI Before Robots Start 'Killing People'

Elon Musk thinks the government needs to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) now, before it becomes dangerous to humanity, the entrepreneur told a gathering of state governors over the weekend. I have exposure to the very cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned about it, Musk told attendees...

Aug 16, 2017

Elon Musk: AI Poses Bigger Threat to Humanity Than North Korea

Simmering tensions between the United States and North Korea have many people concerned about the possibility of nuclear war, but Elon Musk says the North Korean government doesn't pose as much of a threat to humanity as the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The SpaceX and Tesla CEO tweeted on...

Aug 30, 2017

Artificial Intelligence Pens Next Installment of 'Game of Thrones' Novels

Avid fans of writer George R.R. Martin's fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire — brought to the screen in the HBO series Game of Thrones — are facing a bit of a wait before they can find out what happens next in Westeros. The TV series just concluded...