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 […]
Uber Issues Nationwide Suspension of Self-Driving Cars…
Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident. It was only the latest bad news for Uber. Breitbart News reported a week earlier that the public relations turmoil surrounding Uber Technologies Inc. reached new heights when company president Jeff […]
Robots Could Replace One Million Jobs over Next 15 Years…
Millions of jobs in the UK are in jeopardy because of robots taking over various sectors of the labor market. According to the latest report on the impact of automation on the UK’s labor force, up to 10 million jobs are at risk of being replaced by machines within 15 years. Routine and/or manual jobs, […]
Facebook Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Suicides…
Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence and update its tools and services to help prevent suicides among its users. The world’s largest social media network said it plans to integrate its existing suicide prevention tools for Facebook posts into its live-streaming feature, Facebook Live, and its Messenger service. Artificial intelligence will be used to help […]
Google Launches AI Program to Detect ‘Hate Speech’…
Google has launched a new AI program called Perspective to detect “abusive” comments online in an effort to crack down on hate speech. Publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Economist are testing the new software as a way of policing comments sections, according to the Financial Times…
Artificial Intelligence to Write Its Own Code by Stealing from Other Programs…
OUT of the way, human, I’ve got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code. Created by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Cambridge, the system, called DeepCoder, solved basic challenges of the kind set by programming competitions. This kind of approach could make it much easier […]
AI-Powered Body Cams Give Cops the Power to Google Everything They See…
The police body camera industry is the latest to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, bringing new powers and privacy concerns to a controversial technology bolstered by the need to hold police accountable after numerous high-profile killings of unarmed black citizens. Now, that tech is about to get smarter. Last week, Taser, the stun gun […]
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 […]
Robots Are Being Programmed to Fly Drones That Can Kill People?…What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!?…
Could this small robot piloting a drone be the next stage in artificial intelligence? An amusing video shows an Aldebaran Robotics Nao V5 asking its ‘papa’ if it can play with the drone. The man agrees and the robot sets to its task but all does not go to plan as it proceeds to fly […]
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 […]