Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress made one thing clear: the government needs an Federal Artificial Intelligence Agency. Facebook FB, +0.36% is a canary in the proverbial AI coal mine. AI is going to play an enormous role in our lives and in the global economy. It is the key to self-driving cars, the […]
MIT: The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence by Will Knight…
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial […]
The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class
In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world. These researchers were just beginning to explore the science of genetic engineering, manipulating DNA to create organisms that didn’t exist in nature, and they […]
AI Program Beat 4 Human in Marathon Match Lasting 20 Days…
Libratus, an artificial intelligence program developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was trained to play a variant of the game known as no-limit heads-up Texas hold ’em. In a similar tournament in 2015, the humans won. The victory has been hailed as a significant milestone for AI, by the team responsible for building it. The AI […]
Make Way for Our Future Overlords: Robots to Take 6 Percent of Jobs by 2021…
Robots are poised to replace interns as the unrewarded and unpaid worker ants of industry. A study by Forrester Research has projected that by 2021, artificial intelligence will be sophisticated enough to push…
Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels…
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like…
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