Overcoming our fears and avoiding robot overlords
Some people are afraid that one day robots will rise up, sentient, working as a collective and angry enough to overthrow the human race. Other scientists say the scariest thing is for our fears to...
View ArticleWhen artificial intelligence is everywhere, all the time
Siri and virtual assistants like her will soon change everything. I. Mean. Everything.
View ArticleAre robots really going to steal your job?
It's a common theme of science fiction, robots rise up and take over earth, leaving humans as subservient slaves to their emotionless computer chip brains. But a recent report from Forrester suggests a...
View ArticleInstead of robots taking jobs, A.I. may help humans do their jobs better
Despite worries that robots will take jobs from humans, a group of researchers says what's more likely is that humans will eventually work cooperatively with cyber helpers.
View ArticleRobots to take over the workplace by 2018: Gartner
Robots may start taking over the workplace as early as 2018, with almost half of new companies set to have more smart machines than employees, according to Gartner.
View ArticleMeet the virtual woman who may take your job
Amelia is IPsoft's artificial intelligence platform. It has an ability to understand things in context and engage with the listener. Most importantly, Amelia is real enough to take your job.
View ArticleGoogle reports strong profit, says it's 'rethinking everything' around...
Reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google also talked about how vital machine learning will be to its future.
View ArticleNeural networks help Australian astrophysicist classify messy galaxies in...
An astrophysicist from the Australian National University has applied neural networks to automate the process of analysing and finding particular galaxies.
View ArticleWith A.I. advances, Facebook tests M, your newest assistant
Striving to keep up with the increasing demands of delivering users' News Feeds, Facebook is pressing hard to advance artificial intelligence.
View ArticleAccenture invests in artificial intelligence R&D
Accenture says it is committing a significant portion of its global research and development to artificial intelligence and is opening a new Accenture Technology Lab and Centre for Innovation in...
View ArticleCan artificial intelligence influence human behavior? A trial will find out
Researchers in Singapore began a two-year trial this week of a smartphone app that attempts to use artificial intelligence to influence the real world decisions of users.
View ArticleImagining a future where new skills are no help
Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, said that jobs at risk from automation total about 80 million in the US and about 15 million in the UK.
View ArticleAustralia to host RoboCup in June 2019
Business Events Sydney (BESydney) and partners, UNSW and RoboCup Junior Australia, have won a bid to host RoboCup, the world’s largest annual robotics competition.
View ArticleWhy a technological Singularity is unlikely from a scientific viewpoint
The Singularity – it's a nightmare scenario that plays in the minds of most of us whenever we see some freaky smart tech. But should we really be concerned about machine intelligence getting out of...
View ArticleAutonomous technology a threat to humanity, not AI: Toby Walsh
A machine doesn’t have to be that advanced in its artificial intelligence capabilities to be dangerous, it just needs to have a high level of autonomy, according to Toby Walsh, AI researcher at Data61...
View ArticleWhere is machine learning heading in 2016?
Smarter mobile apps, intelligent digital assistants and democratisation of artificial intelligence are what we can expect next year when it comes to machine learning, according to analysts.
View ArticleWhat does the future hold for artificial intelligence?
Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, shares with CIO.com his thoughts on where artificial intelligence and cognitive computing research is heading.
View ArticleAI is coming to factories as IBM works with IoT startup Wi-Next
Internet of Things startup Wi-Next will add IBM analytics to its systems for industrial quality control and predictive maintenance.
View ArticleA.I. and virtual reality may propel future of retail
Retail is no longer about having the latest products on shelves in brick-and-mortar stores or having a cool website. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality are the new tools consumers will use to...
View ArticleEmotionally intelligent machines to be used for everyday applications by...
Artificial intelligence that includes an emotional component will be embedded into everyday applications within the next five years, says senior research analyst of TechVision at Frost & Sullivan,...
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