Google has partnered with NASA to create the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a bid to harness next-generation computing to boost machine learning.
Apple's Siri loses a lot in translation. Could human-powered intelligence pick up the slack where virtual assistants fail? Sivi founder Nicholas Seet thinks so.
Google's X lab is home to many wonders, but perhaps none so science-fiction-sounding as its artificial intelligence, which has a predilection for cats. Here's why Google's building a brain.
Imagine a cloud of rescue helicopters descending on a burning building. New artificial intelligence models teach semi-autonomous devices how to coordinate their actions to solve our problems.
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It's the Nerd Super Bowl--Ken Jennings (winner of 74 consecutive Jeopardy! episodes) versus Brad Rutter (winner of several tournaments of Jeopardy! champions) versus IBM's natural-language processing prodigy, Watson. The last time an IBM supercomputer challenged a human opponent, chess champion Garry Kasparov resigned in tears.
