Artificial Intelligence

How do you tell your robot not do something that could be catastrophic? You could give it a verbal or programmatic command or you…

“This artificial intelligence is designed to be mentally unstable.” — Wired…

Every year thousands of carpenters injure their hands and fingers doing dangerous tasks such as sawing. In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus…

Until now, our evolution was biological. We’ve developed additional layers of the brain, upright posture, and other physical attributes to adapt to our…

Facebook will invest €10m in its French artificial intelligence centre in the latest sign of optimism in the country’s tech sector following Emmanuel Macron’s…

MIT professor of mathematics Tom Leighton has been selected to receive the 2018 Marconi Prize. The Marconi Society, dedicated to furthering scientific…

Pichai went on to warn of the potential dangers associated with developing advanced AI, saying that developers need to learn to harness its benefits in the same…

Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via…

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. Every quarter, the School of…

This introductory video of theirs doesn't quite emphasise the wide-reaching impact their platform and community will have in my opinion. It is, however, a great…

Dina Katabi, an MIT professor who created a wireless device that “sees through walls,” has won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Prize in Computing…

Artificial intelligence could give internet giants like Facebook and Amazon even more power to reshape the Canadian economy, threatening the…

Dmitry KuzminovCo-Founder, CTOAn outstanding leader with a consistent record of delivery within challenging situations and competitive environments. More than…

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A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — easily understands the same type of action is…

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Amazon recently unveiled…

You check your voicemail – it’s your daughter, panicking, garbled. She’s travelling, away on her gap year. You’ve had a series of emails from her – she’s lost…

In March, the dating app Bumble banned guns. Daters swiping left or right on each other’s alluring poses now aren’t allowed to use a photo of themselves holding…

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Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and tedious: Even after taking…

At Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters, the chief executive, Sundar Pichai, now shares a floor with Google Brain, a research lab dedicated to artificial…

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