Let’s Talk About Google Duplex - The Brilliant-Yet-Terrifying Digital Assistant Of Human Deception
From wowing the world with an incredible demo to becoming a scary violation of ethics, Google Duplex has done it all. After sitting back and watching the initial fireworks, I’m ready to dive in…
Strange AI-Generated April Fool’s Pranks Prove Machines Have A Weird Sense Of Humour
Need proof that Artificial Intelligence is not going to enslave the human race? Just take a look at the bizarre April Fool’s pranks it creates…
Bizarre AI-Generated Candy Heart Messages Are Sure To Get You Swooning…
Artificial Intelligence can be trained to do a lot of things, but it turns out it’s not so great in the art of romance - creating such love-inducing candy heart messages like “SWEAT POO.”
Artificially Intelligent Robot Writes And Performs Its Own Music - Turns Out To Be Pretty Chill
Meet Shimon - a four-armed robot that composes and performs its own Marimba music using artificial intelligence.
School Starts Using Facial Recognition To See When Students Aren’t Paying Attention
A business school in Paris will start using facial recognition technology, to make sure students are paying attention in class… Wave goodbye to those all-important lecture naps!
Sick Of Being Single? This Neural Network Invents Pick-Up Lines For You
One researcher has trained a neural network to create its own pick-up lines, uploading thousands of existing lines for it to identify patterns and generate new ones. Simple question – do these chat-up lines hold up?
CES 2017 - Emotech’s Olly Is A Robot With Feelings
Meet Olly - a CES Innovation Award-Winning robot by Emotech which they claim has both “feelings,” and a “personality.” As someone who was equally amazed and terrified when watching Her, I’m going to give this device the benefit of the doubt.
Light-Based Neural Network Could Be The Future Of Super-Fast AI Brains
While we can create computers that behave like brains, conventional circuitry means they will never perform as quickly as the sophisticated human neural network.
But Princeton researchers may have just solved this future and paved the future for this big area of research - creating the world’s first Light-based Neural Network.
5 Major Tech Companies Have Formed A Partnership On AI - Be Scared
Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft have formed the 'Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society.' I'm seriously doubting the last part of that mission statement...
Artificial Intelligence Judges Beauty Contest - Racism Ensues
A beauty contest judged entirely by Artificial Intelligence has found itself in the middle of an internet uproar, as the AI mostly chose white people as the winners.
Google Teams Up With NHS To Inject AI Into Head And Neck Cancer Treatment
Google is teaming up with the UK’s National Health Service to put its artificial intelligence system, DeepMind Health, to the test of helping improve head and neck cancer treatment.
Watch This Nonsensical Short Film Written Entirely By Artificial Intelligence
A.I. is quickly becoming the next big thing in technology - learning to drive cars and even beat humans at board games. But what if we used a neural network to write a science fiction film? The result is Sunspring, and it’s rather incoherent, to say the least!
Google and Oxford University Are Developing a "Kill-Switch" for Unruly AI
If you’re a person, the chances are that every time you hear a story about AI you think “but what about Terminator”. Turns out, the scientists are right there with you. DeepMind, the AI division of Google has teamed up with Oxford University to develop a “kill switch” for AI, should it become unruly in the future.