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The race is on to develop and control Artificial Intelligence

Posted in Business on 26th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

The tech industrys biggest companies, like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Facebook, are jockeying to become the go-to platform for A.I.

Microsoft shuts Twitter AI bot after it learns racism from Twitter users

Posted in Software on 25th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

Microsoft launched an AI on Twitter for a playful chat with people, only to silence it within 24 hours as users started sharing racist and offensive comments with the bot.

Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence

Posted in Software on 21st Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

'Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.'

This Amazing Computer Chip Is Made of Live Brain Cells

Posted in Hardware on 18th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

So what if we could harness the power of the human brain by using actual brain cells to power the next generation of computers?

South Korean government announces nearly $1 billion in AI funding

Posted in Software on 17th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

SK announced it would spend 1T won (US$840 million) by 2020 to forward AI. It seems that everyone wants to get in on the AI revolution.