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.
Computing and mathematics legend Stephen Wolfram is worried about bigger problems than climate change or overpopulation. He just joined the Lifeboat Institute, a think tank devoted to ways of protecting humanity from deadly nanoweapons and rogue artificial intelligences.
Taught by two Googlers and available on YouTube free of charge, the class might be the largest instance of group education in the world, and the students--even around the world--seem to be eating it up.
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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