THE INVESTOR USING VENTURE CAPITAL AND MACHINE LEARNING TO CURE CANCER

Vijay Pande, a lifelong coder who holds a couple of degrees in physics, doesn't seem like he'd be the guy to thwart death... READ MORE›

MAY IS TRYING TO RECRUIT ALLIES IN DAVOS TO TAKE ON BIG TECH

On a break from Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May takes her crusade against technology giants to Davos... READ MORE›

A BRAVE NEW WORLD OR A MATRIX-INSPIRED NIGHTMARE?

Taut, terrifying and thought-provoking, this is the dark side of artificial intelligence explored through the prism of Hollywood... READ MORE›

IS THIS THE WORLD'S FIRST GOOD ROBOT ALBUM?

People have been using computers to write classical music since the 1950s... READ MORE›

CHINA AIMS TO ENABLE HALF OF ALL NEW CARS WITH AI BY 2020

Smart cars are a key part of the project... READ MORE›

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NEW INSTITUTE AIMS TO MAKE TORONTO AN 'INTELLECTUAL CENTRE' OF AI CAPABILITY

We want Toronto, Ontario to be one of the core intellectual centres of artificial intelligence research in the world... READ MORE›

ROBOTS COULD DESTABILISE WORLD THROUGH WAR AND UNEMPLOYMENT SAYS UN

United Nations opens new centre in Netherlands to monitor artificial intelligence and second-guess threats... READ MORE›

DAVID CAMERON RELEASES HIS FACEBOOK FRIENDS VIDEO

The twee little clips coldly put together by a soulless computer algorithm have been celebrated by many as some kind of magical insight into people's lives... READ MORE›

GOOGLE JUST FOUND THE ONE QUESTION IT CAN'T YET ANSWER

While the research has no immediate real-world application, it would help DeepMind design artificial intelligence agents that can work together in environments with imperfect information... READ MORE›

GO MASTER WALLOPED BY EMOTIONLESS CHALLENGER A GOOGLE COMPUTER PROGRAM

Mr. Hassabis said AlphaGo did not try to consider all the possible moves in a match, as a traditional artificial intelligence machine like Deep Blue does... READ MORE›

AMAZON BACKS GERMAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH HUB

Amazon.com will open an artificial intelligence research center in the German university city of Tuebingen, creating 100 jobs over the next five years... READ MORE›

GOOGLE SEARCH CHIEF SINGHAL TO QUIT, TO BE REPLACED BY AI HEAD

Giannandrea led Google's machine learning efforts, applying the technology to products such as image recognition for Google Photos search and the smart reply for Google Inbox... READ MORE›

AMAZON STEPS UP PACE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RACE

And Google Cloud Platform introduced the Google Natural Language API, a rival to the new Amazon Comprehend, last November... READ MORE›

SUN VALLEY SECRET TECH DEMOS FEATURE SPIDER SILK, QUANTUM PHYSICS

Nearly all the biggest names in media and technology descended on Sun Valley this week... READ MORE›

GOOGLE USES AI TO CUT DATA CENTRE ENERGY USE BY 15%

The trial using machine learning to further cut those data centres' energy - and carbon emissions... READ MORE›

As yet, AI does not possess the emotional intelligence to make the creative leaps of humans... READ MORE›

DRIVERLESS CARS SET FOR UK BUDGET BOOST

Driverless cars set for UK budget boost finance ministry... READ MORE›

WALL STREET HOPES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE HELPS IT HIRE LOYAL BANKERS

Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Inc and UBS Group AG are exploring the use of artificial intelligence software to judge applicants on traits... READ MORE›

MY COMPUTER SAYS I'M GOING TO DIE

The Florida State University researchers found the machine learning algorithms could predict a suicide attempt with 80 to 90 percent accuracy up to two years in advance... READ MORE›

'EUREKA MOMENT': AI SOFTWARE PROGRAMMED TO SPOT SKIN CANCER BY CHECKING PICS OF MOLES

Deep learning is a series of algorithms which mimic human neural networks, allowing the AI to detect patterns in images... READ MORE›

GOOGLE DEEPMIND'S PROGRAM BEATS HUMAN AT GO

Googles software engineers taught computer to beat almost any human at an ancient Chinese game... READ MORE›

IT'S TIME TO TAKE AI SERIOUSLY

Discussions about Artificial Intelligence AI risk gravitating towards one of two extremes... READ MORE›

ARE WE SAFE IN A FUTURE WITH AI?

Are we safe in a future with artificial intelligence? The machines learn from us and can have human-like intelligence... READ MORE›

HOW POKER PROS ARE BESTED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A victory for Libratus, Brown said, would not be much of a threat to human poker players... READ MORE›

STEPHEN HAWKING AND ELON MUSK JUST TRIED TO STOP KILLER ROBOTS FROM STARTING WORLD WAR 3

Stephen hawking and elon musk warn against artificial intelligence arms race... READ MORE›

DEEPMIND COMPUTER PROGRAM BEATS HUMANS AT GO

It has 10 to the power of 170 possible board positions, which is greater than the number of atoms in the universe... READ MORE›

NVIDIA TEACHES WORLD ABOUT DEEP LEARNING IN FINANCE

Disclosure Andy Steinbach will be talking about deep learning at Newsweek's AI and Data Science in Capital Markets conference on Dec. 6-7 in New York... READ MORE›

THIS MACHINE CAN TELL WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK-TWEETING

Researchers at the University of Rochester have written a machine learning algorithm that can accurately predict when you're drunk tweeting. It is, essentially, a robotic narc... READ MORE›

TECH LEADERS WARN OVER 'KILLER ROBOTS'

The letter was presented at the opening of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires... READ MORE›

GOOGLE DEEPMIND'S ALPHAGO WINS 5-MATCH GO SERIES WITH THIRD STRAIGHT VICTORY AGAINST WORLD CHAMPION LEE SEDOL

AlphaGo, a computer program developed by researchers at Google's DeepMind division, has won the third straight game of Go against the 18-time world champion Lee Sedol... READ MORE›

CAN THIS WEBSITE DETERMINE HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU ARE?

Also often referred to as an artificial neural network due to its similarities with human thinking... READ MORE›

KEEP AN EYE ON AI, SAY EXPERTS

But for some, unchecked AI development evokes apocalyptic images in which hostile machines enslave humanity... READ MORE›

GOOGLE'S ALPHAGO DEFEATS GO GRANDMASTER IN FINAL MATCH[1]

Google's Go-playing computer program again defeated its human opponent in a final match on Tuesday that sealed its 4-1 victory... READ MORE›

TYPHOON WEAKENS OVER CHINA AFTER LEAVING 22 DEAD, MISSING

Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in China's Fujian province late Saturday night and was downgraded into a tropical storm as it moved across the region... READ MORE›

CEO DEFINES 'PERSONALIZED' CONTENT IN CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE

Whilst providing interesting and informative contents, we wish, in particular, to provide useful and quality content, he emphasized... READ MORE›