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An international study finds the vast majority of 15-year-olds can’t tell when they’re being manipulated.
Robots may be able to beat us at chess, but they still have trouble when it comes to soft skills — making sense of human behavior.
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Deepfakes are “neither intrinsically good nor evil.”
This is what you need to do to keep up with today’s digital progress.
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What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?
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A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
The power to predict the next revolution keeps companies on top.
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A review of the multifaceted questions we’ll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an “inner feel.”
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We can either be fearful of artificial intelligence, or embrace it as a tool to help us improve service.
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Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That’s one question deep learning can’t answer.
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So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
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Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.
For now, artificial intelligence is nothing to fear. But as it rapidly develops in the years ahead?
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
Artificial intelligence has proven equal and even better than humans in making some diagnoses.
Musk also said that “anonymous bot swarms” should be investigated.
These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.
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The fast-food company recently agreed to acquire a tech company whose “speech-to-meaning” technology might soon be interpreting customers’ orders.
The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel’s Lama Nachman.
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What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.
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When it comes to job security in the future, instead of acting “professional” you may want to act more human.
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Correlation doesn’t equal causation — we all know this. Well, except robots.
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An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors.
President Trump has called for Silicon Valley to develop digital precogs, but such systems raise efficacy concerns.
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.
MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.
If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?
The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.
We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.