The Biggest Sign Yet That Automation Is Taking Over at Amazon
The day after Christmas, Amazon celebrated its own annual holiday tradition: announcing record-breaking sales in a very…
Google Claims It Wont Sell Face Recognition Tech—For Now
Google seems to be trying to distinguishing itself from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon with a recent statement…
How We Can Prepare for Catastrophically Dangerous AI—and Why We Can't Wait
Artificial intelligence in its current form is mostly harmless, but that’s not going to last. Machines are getting…
These Were the Jobs of the Future, According to Experts in 1988
Making predictions is hard, we all know that. But there’s one field where prediction can be even more difficult than…
December's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Will Help You Get Through the End of 2018
It’s December—traditionally, not a month that brings too many book releases, but there are still plenty of juicy sci-fi…
Facebook and MIT Researchers Want to Use AI to Create Addresses for the Billions of People Who Don't Have One
Facebook seems interested in moving into Google’s territory of, well, territory. The social media company teamed up…
In Video Debut, CIMON the ISS Robot Throws an Unexpected Tantrum
In terms of glitchy behavior, we’re not quite at HAL 9000 levels just quite yet—but during the debut demonstration of…
The Malware of the Future Will Have AI Superpowers
In the past two years, we’ve learned that machine learning algorithms can manipulate public opinion, cause fatal car…
‘NIPS’ AI Conference Changes Name Following Protests Over Gross Acronym
A top artificial intelligence (AI) conference will officially use a different acronym as its shorthand name, following…
These Animated AI Bots Learned to Dress Themselves, Awkwardly
The ability to put our clothes on each day is something most of us take for granted, but as computer scientists from…
Google Pledges $25 Million for 'Good' AI, Totally Isn't Trying to Make You Forget That Military AI Stuff
Google has faced a lot of backlash since Gizmodo revealed in March that the company was helping the United States…
Absolutely Nothing Will Go Wrong When MIT Lets the Internet Control a Real Person on Halloween
In a soon-to-launch online social experiment that is definitely in no way going to backfire, researchers with the…
AI Community Feuds Over 'NIPS,' the Controversial Name of Its Top Conference
At one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) conferences in the world last year, keynote speaker Elon Musk …
Portrait Painted by AI Sells For $432,500
A painting made by an artificial intelligence program sold at Christie’s in New York auction on Thursday for…
Self-Driving Cars Can't Choose Who to Kill Yet, But People Already Have Lots of Opinions
That people would generally prefer to minimize casualties in a hypothetical autonomous car crash has been found to be…
AI Still Sucks at Optical Illusions, So at Least We Have That Going for Us
Optical illusions take advantage of shortcomings in the visual system. Certain special designs can trick our brain as…
Google’s AI Bots Invent Ridiculous New Legs to Scamper Through Obstacle Courses
Using a technique called reinforcement learning, a researcher at Google Brain has shown that virtual robots can…
The Machines That Will Fight the Social Media Wars of Tomorrow
The internet has entered into a new era, forcing us to second-guess virtually everything we see, hear, and read. In…
Emerging Tech Will Create More Jobs Than It Kills by 2022, World Economic Forum Predicts
The advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence will make 75 million jobs obsolete by the year 2022, according…
New MIT Robot Can Delicately Handle Objects It’s Never Seen Before
Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different…