Artificial Intelligence

More about artificial intelligence Some 96% of companies expect to see an explosion of machine learning projects in production by 2020, according to a…

By Graham Lawton THE UK public is well-informed and positive about science and technology, but its hopes and fears are largely being ignored by politicians.…

A poll conducted by New Scientist Live has found 53 percent of the UK’s population are weary of the threat posed by AI. About 51 percent of those polled…

It really seems like a lot of AI innovation is mainstream-available. Deep Mind’s Koray Kavukcuoglu is now on Youtube talking about Impala and Spiral, which…

Can we break the cycle of addiction?Oliver Rüther/Plainpicture By Andy Coghlan People with cocaine addiction may soon be invited to test a pioneering new…

You visit your doctor for a routine checkup. She decides to do a fine needle aspiration for a seemingly insignificant lesion (“It’s probably nothing…”). But a…

Continuing advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) for use in both the public and private sectors warrant serious ethical consideration. As the capability…

Many people discuss the coming artificial intelligence (AI) revolution as either a dystopian or utopian future—but the reality is that AI and automation have…

David Shaw is an “Intrapreneur/Catalyst” agent in Portland, Oregon.In this episode of Ai News, David Shaw examines the question: is Ai tangible or realistic?…

In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Amruta Moktali, VP of Product Management at Salesforce Analytics, about Salesforce Analytics’ analytic and…

NEXT July will mark 50 years since humans set foot on the moon. The rumblings of commemoration can already be heard – even now Ryan Gosling, deputising for…

Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying – and it’s happening right now By…

KOLKATA: A US-based startup has started testing the stability of the Kolkata Gate’s ring in New Town using artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of things…

I’ve just finished reading the book Life 3.0 by physicist & AI philosopher Max Tegmark, where he sets out a series of possible scenarios and outcomes for…

Melanie Windridge’s company has heated plasma to sun-like temperatures By Sean O’Neill Fusion could solve the world’s energy problems and curb climate…

Highlights Trained algorithms can sort through applications for oil and gas permits to extract information and themes, catching problems before they occur. AI…

Just as the combination of Microsoft‘s (MSFT) Windows operating system and Intel (INTC) processors dominated the PC market with the “Wintel” platform, Nvidia…

In the recent keynote talk at NVIDIA NTECH 2018, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Suskever explained about their Dota2 bot OpenAI Five. He said the main part of its RL…

Nearly 60 years ago, then-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson seized his colleagues with a stark Cold War warning: Whoever wins the space race, he…

Who do you turn to when you can’t decide what to wear? Your best friend, maybe. Instagram, probably. People like me and magazines like this one (hopefully).…

By New Scientist staff The heat death of the universe is coming for us. The cosmos is expanding faster and faster, and eventually everything will move so…

During last Wednesday’s congressional hearing about Twitter transparency, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was forced to take accountability for the damaging cultural…

Our gut bacteria can play a role in everything from sleep to IBS and how we deal with stress, and we are finally working out how to use them to improve our…

The European Parliament passed a resolution on September 12, 2018 calling for an international ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The resolution…