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AI continues to evolve day-to-day and it's becoming so complex that we don't know how it comes to some of its decisions. Also, with AI now starting to design new AI how trustyworthy is the new AI going to be? Questions like these are going to continue to dog the AI community until they can be...

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a system that lets robots interact with things they've never seen before. Visual foresight is the technology and it allows robots to visualize how their actions will affect the world around them. In a nutshell, they want the robot to learn like a human...

At a private party yesterday, Elon Musk supposedly told those in attendance that Tesla was developing AI hardware that could possibly be the best in the world. Also, he opined that fully automated driving will be available in about 2 years, but didn't mention if or when his new hardware was...

A group of AI's recently banded together and produced a 5 track death metal album and released it for free. One AI did the music, one did the track titles, and the third created the album cover. I'm not a fan of death metal so I can't comment on the quality. I bet we have some aficionados...

Back in May of this year Google announced the creation of an AI (AutoML) that is able to design better AIs. AutoML built a new AI that's called NASNet that is used to recognize objects. NASNet out performs its human designed counterparts and the methods used to develop it are the future of...

GE healthcare has announced they will be using Nvidia AI in over 500,000 medical devices around the world. The tech is going to improve the outcome of patients with liver legions and other similar lesions because it will enable doctors to detect them more quickly. The uses for AI in the...

Facebook has rolled out a new AI that scans for suicidal posts across their platform, excluding the EU because of privacy laws. Supposedly this will find something before a person reports a post and will then alert a moderator that will contact first responders. All of this sounds innocent...

Artificial intelligence continues to benefit us everyday. I know Elon thinks it's going to kill us off, but for now it's making nuclear reactors safer by helping to detect cracks in nuclear reactors. As long as AI can do stuff like that for us I'm completely fine with it. If Skynet arises...

Elon Musk recently spoke to Rolling Stone and shared his thoughts about climate change and the development of AI. He believes both of these are the biggest threats to humanity in the future. He has always been a climate change proponent, but what I found interesting is his comment that there's...

A call for research projects from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology posted online last month fills in some detail on the government’s plans. And it puts Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia, the leading supplier of silicon for machine-learning projects, in the cross hairs. The Ministry of...

Mindfire, a new foundation with the goal of “decoding the mind” to help develop true artificial intelligence (AI) launched November 17th in Zurich, Switzerland. According to Futurism, Mindfire is going to bring together some of the best minds in the world and attempt to build a machine with...

For a new ad campaign dropping today, Adobe Systems placed all its eggs in the programmatic basket. In doing so, the software giant wants to illustrate its belief that such automated buying processes will soon become the only way to effectively place ads. Sounds interesting, but I wonder how...

For those of us that keep track of tech companies it's no surprise that Nvidia had $2.6 billion in revenue last quarter. On the heels of that announcement the folks at Venture Beat interviewed Nvidia's CEO and his responses are interesting to say the least. Jensen Huang, CEO of Santa Clara...

Bitmain claims to have built at least 70 percent of the computers on the Bitcoin network and now they want to leverage their technology to build AI chips and computers. Their new AI chip will be specialized in both training and executing deep learning algorithms. As a matter of fact they say...

Ok, first we hear AI is going to destroy us all. Next, we hear AI is just going to enhance us. Now this piece says we are designing some AI's to be mentally unstable. Is this something that's really smart to do? I'm starting to lean back to the opinion that AI is going to destroy us if this...

We've been reading plenty of doomsday predictions for AI from people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. However, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer for Google and famous futurist, spoke in a discussion held at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday. He emphasized how AI would enhance humankind...

AI is probably going to take over many simple jobs, but maybe lawyers are on the way out as well. There was a contest that took place last month that pitted 100 lawyers against an AI program called Case Cruncher Alpha. The contestants were given the basic facts of hundreds of PPI mis-selling...

Scientists at the ETH Zurich university have trained an AI to improve on photos taken with any phone camera, with a goal of attaining DSLR-quality output. Unfortunately,it's still not good enough to make a phone camera photo as good as a DSLR photo. However, AI enhanced photos are still pretty...

Computer scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can outsmart the Captcha website security check system. AI capability continues to accelerate at a break-neck pace as far as I'm concerned. With this development it appears that Captcha is going the way of the dodo. What's Google...

University of Helsinki researchers have developed artificial intelligence software, which can evaluate the maturity of a preterm infant's brain directly from an EEG. As discussed here, the EEG-based brain maturity evaluation systems is the first of its kind in the world. The analysis software...

Two years ago, Elon Musk and others established a nonprofit AI lab called OpenAI. OpenAI has published dozens of research papers and just posted one Thursday - the lead author is still in high school. According to this Wired article, Kevin Frans is a senior in high school that trained his...

Google worked with Intel to develop a special-purpose chip for AI and other tasks in the new Pixel smartphones. Intel has to feel somewhat happy with this arrangement since they more or less dropped out of the mobile phone/tablet business last year. I guess time will tell how long this...

This is a fairly long Chinese paper that delves into figuring out the IQ of different forms of Artificial Intelligence. Great fun since these guys have included the most popular versions of AI that most of us likely interact with in Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri. Interestingly they show...

This is a nice article that talks about the ever expanding role of AI in cyber defense. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. AI can identify and react faster than any human and time is of the essence when your network is under attack. I for one welcome our new AI overlords. For...

Did you know over 40,000 women die from breast cancer every year? The researchers at MIT want to do something about that and have developed an AI system to improve diagnosis and detection of the cancer while it is in an early stage. Not only do they want to detect it early, but reduce the risk...

Having problems finding that special someone that puts the yank back in your crank? Have no fear, AI is here, to watch all those videos that you don't want to watch. Now that we have that out of the way, maybe we can use it to cure cancer or something? Thanks cageymaru. “Artificial...

Google's DeepMind AI and Blizzard have just released the tools to let AI researchers create bots capable of competing against humans in StarCraft II. They are also opening a cache of data from 65,000 past StarCraft II games, and they say the trove will grow by around half a million games each...

Government bots designed to slash red tape and search case law could save the feds up to $41 billion per year by freeing up 1.2 billion working hours a study by consultancy firm Deloitte predicts. Some federal agencies already are already using AI in some form. The U.S. Citizenship and...

"Hey dude, that chatbot your programmed hates communism." "Holy crap, get it offline now! I will send you a postcard from the labor camp." AI hates communism. Another web user said to the chatbot: "Long Live the Communist Party", to which BabyQ replied: "Do you think such corrupt and...

It was widely reported yesterday that Facebook "had to" shut down its AI chatbot program because the AI started having conversations in their own language, and of course we all know what happens when that happens. It however seems that a lot of folks ran with a story that was not quite on...

We all knew this was coming sooner or later, right? If we can build a self-driving car to recognize people and not run over them, we can surely program AI to recognize people and blow their heads off with a huge gun mounted on a Skynet robot. I call this progress. How long before we see these...

Yeah, I said it. Probably runs like you too. Check out the video. Google's artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepMind, has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. They gave the artificial intelligence simple tasks like "keep...

Got two metric tons of Legos in your garage? I know there are some of our readers that just might as pointed out by this [H] Lego thread. (HardForum login and subscription required.) However this guy literally bought enough Lego bricks to fill his garage then had to figure out a way to sort...

We've been joking of skynet becoming sentient for years, we've now entered the time-loop that will eventually lead us there. In a story from The Atlantic, researchers at FAIR lab, short for Facebook AI Research, have discovered a couple of bots have made their own non-human language when...

While I'm still trying to get to Donkey Kong's kill screen myself, researchers at Microsoft developed artificial intelligience using reinforcement learning to beat Ms. Pac-Man. The team from Maluuba, recently acquired by Microsoft this year specifically used the Atari 2600 version of Ms. Pac-Man...

Researchers have used Machine Learning to spot people using false information to answer questions. The hackers behind 2015 breach of the IRS, for example, used personal information they'd previously stolen to answer security questions on the IRS website, and in turn get access to their tax...

While we hear that robots are coming to kill us all sooner or later, it seems that DARPA has taken notice of this too. Futurism is telling us that DARPA is giving $6.5M in funding to Oregon State University scientists for a 4-year project to develop a system that will allow AI to communicate...

With AI technology accelerating rapidly, scientists say that existing rules and regulations don't go far enough in limiting what AI can do - and recommend that robots be held to the same standards as the humans who make them. Sarah Connor would be proud of the efforts these researchers are...

Recent research published in the journal Science has concluded that AI and machine learning programs may need an AI stereotype catcher, after showing that various AI systems relatively new language abilities may become an instrument of unintentional discrimination based on gender, race, age and...

This is a tremendously long read over a Vanity Fair, which I would not call a usual source of a good science read, but today it is. While the focus of this article is that Elon Musk is hedging his bets to colonize space in order to get away from rouge AI killing us all here on Earth, it casts a...