Artificial Intelligence

Pinterest Now Has Visual Search and It’s Kinda Smart

Smart image recognition systems can be incredibly powerful, and how interior designers and fashionistas can take advantage of them. Pinterest now has a tool that allows you to search not using words but images, which could make tracking down that artisanal teapot a little easier. In the past, Pinterest has required you to know how…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

Bank of America Wants to Use Robots to Manage Your Money

We’re trusting robots with more and more these days: Our luggage, our meals—even our lives on the road. Why not add finances to the list? Bank of America is joining several other banks that want to do just that. Bloomberg Business reports that Bank of America wants to use algorithms that provide customers with investment…

Artificial Intelligence Bryan Lufkin

Bosch Has a Pedestrian Avoidance System It Wants to Put in Real Cars By 2018

Bosch has announced that it’s been working on a system that can detect and help avoid pedestrians that step out in front of cars, and it hopes to fit it to production vehicles as soon as 2018. The Engineer reportsthat the system, developed at Bosch’s R&D centre at Renningen in Germany, isn’t fully autonomous, but…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

This Artificial Neural Network Will Tell You If Your Selfies Suck

Ever wondered how your own selfies compare against the internet’s vast amount of artistically crafted narcissism-laden self portraits? Turns out, there’s an AI for that. Feeding two million internet selfies into a “140-million-parameter state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network,” a Standford PhD candidate has trained an AI to classify “good” selfies from “bad” ones. Convolutional Neural Networks,…

Artificial Intelligence Chelsea Scherer

Experts Warn UN Panel About the Dangers of Artificial Superintelligence

During a recent United Nations meeting about emerging global risks, political representatives from around the world were warned about the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other future technologies. The event, organized by Georgia’s UN representatives and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), was set up to foster discussion about the national…

Artificial Intelligence George Dvorsky

It Took This Robot 10 Days to Learn How to Grasp Objects From Scratch

Robots are good at a lot of things, but their track record at picking up objects is poor. So just how hard is it to teach one to pick up an object on demand from a table full of clutter? That’s what a team from Carnegie Mellon University have been trying to find out. Pictured…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

This Neural Network’s Hilariously Bad Image Descriptions Are Still Advanced AI

When will a neural network know who Donald Trump is? How long until one can come up with a joke on its own? How about recognize Yoda? It may not be much longer, with neural network models progressing at breakneck speed. But there’s still a long way to go, as demonstrated by an experiment by…

Artificial Intelligence Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Robots Might Soon Be Writing ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books

Interactive fiction writing is a pretty niche market, but it’s one that we can’t seem to get enough of. Imagine how many more hours of Choose Your Own Adventure-style entertainment our kids could get lost in, if we could just build robots to write these stories. Guess what? We can. That’s right: Researchers at the…

Artificial Intelligence Maddie Stone

IBM’s Watson Could Hold the Key to Fighting Beijing’s Brutal Pollution

The same company that made Jeopardy!-conquering Watson will use similar tech to help fight air pollution in Beijing. In the future, that artificial intelligence could lead to cleaner air for the long haul, everywhere. According to MIT Technology Review, IBM’s rolling out a plan that predicts when and where Beijing’s pollution levels will be the…

Artificial Intelligence Bryan Lufkin

When Robots Get Wasted

Mind-altering substances are buckets of fun for humans, but what about for robots? An excellent article at Hopes and Fears wondered if our future robot overlords are going to spend their weekends getting baked out of their minds. (Spoiler: We’re not sure.) But for me, the article raised an even more pressing question: What would…

Artificial Intelligence Maddie Stone

This Robot Reads WikiHow Guides to Learn How to Make Breakfast

As robots become more common in offices and homes, more humans will need to communicate with them. Sadly, bots still can’t converse or read or write well—yet. A European research project is looking to fix this limitation with a WikiHow-skimming kitchen robot that uses text and voice commands to throw together grub. The European research…

Artificial Intelligence Bryan Lufkin

This Neural Network Is Hilariously Bad At Describing Outer Space

Lion fish. Petri dish. Dough. According to one very befuddled artificial neural network, all of these things can be found in the short intro to Star Trek: The Next Generation. The animation isn’t exactly a photorealistic depiction of space—but it’s close enough that most of us can recognize its planets, spacecraft, and other details. Yet…

Artificial Intelligence Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Software That Learns To Drift Could Teach Autonomous Cars To Drive Like Ken Block

Most researchers developing artificial intelligences are working towards a goal of making robots that can one day adapt to any situation. But researchers at MIT have instead created an AI that can learn to drift an RC car, which means that one day the terminators will drive even better than Ken Block can. The machine…

Artificial Intelligence Andrew Liszewski

Computer Programs Can Be as Biased as Humans

Computer programs might not be as objective and unbiased as they seem, according to new research. The software that process job applications, housing loan decisions, and other data that impacts people’s lives might be picking up biases along the way. It’s common practice for companies to use software to sort through job applications and score…

Artificial Intelligence Kiona Smith-Strickland

How We Won the World Robot Soccer Championship

My team from UNSW Australia defeated team B-Human from Germany 3-1 last week to claim back-to-back Robocup SPL World Championships. Here’s how we did it. The competition involves fully autonomous robots, with no remote control, competing against each other in 5-on-5 soccer. Each team uses the same robots, so the competition is focused on software…

Artificial Intelligence Sean Harris

Obama’s Plan to Make the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The US does not currently own the world’s fastest supercomputer. But if President Obama gets his way, that will change. Yesterday, Obama signed an executive order launching a program to build the world’s fastest supercomputer—30 times faster than all others. The supercomputer will be part of a larger program called the National Strategic Computing Initiative,…

Artificial Intelligence Kate Knibbs

Why We Should Welcome ‘Killer Robots’—Not Ban Them

The open letter signed by more than 12,000 prominent people calling for a ban on artificially intelligent killer robots, connected to arguments for a UN ban on the same, is misguided and perhaps even reckless. Wait, misguided? Reckless? Let me offer some context. I am a robotics researcher and have spent much of my career…

Artificial Intelligence Jai Galliott

A Beautiful Visual Explainer Will Help You Understand Machine Learning

Ever wondered what machine learning was and still failed to understand it no matter how much you read? Then this neat visual introduction to the topic should do just the trick. Using a data set about homes, the site does an honestly amazing job of describing how it’s possible to teach computers to discern between…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Call for Ban on Autonomous Military Robots

There’s no question that the age of autonomous killing machines is upon us. But some very smart and very influential people would like to turn back the clock. Over 1,000 people from the worlds of tech, space travel, computing, and mathematics have signed an open letter calling for an end to the autonomous weapons arms…

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak

Skype Translator Likes to Swear in Chinese

Skype Translator is an amazing feat of engineering, even if it isn’t perfect. But reports suggest that, in Chinese at least, it has somewhat of a potty mouth. Tom Carter writes for Global Times that he’s been using Skype Translator whilst on a shoot in China to make a cross-lingual TV commercial. But some of…

Artificial Intelligence Jamie Condliffe

Pinterest Now Has Visual Search and It’s Kinda Smart

Bank of America Wants to Use Robots to Manage Your Money

Bosch Has a Pedestrian Avoidance System It Wants to Put in Real Cars By 2018

This Artificial Neural Network Will Tell You If Your Selfies Suck

Experts Warn UN Panel About the Dangers of Artificial Superintelligence

It Took This Robot 10 Days to Learn How to Grasp Objects From Scratch

This Neural Network’s Hilariously Bad Image Descriptions Are Still Advanced AI

Robots Might Soon Be Writing ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books

IBM’s Watson Could Hold the Key to Fighting Beijing’s Brutal Pollution

When Robots Get Wasted

This Robot Reads WikiHow Guides to Learn How to Make Breakfast

This Neural Network Is Hilariously Bad At Describing Outer Space

Software That Learns To Drift Could Teach Autonomous Cars To Drive Like Ken Block

Computer Programs Can Be as Biased as Humans

How We Won the World Robot Soccer Championship

Obama’s Plan to Make the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Why We Should Welcome ‘Killer Robots’—Not Ban Them

A Beautiful Visual Explainer Will Help You Understand Machine Learning

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Call for Ban on Autonomous Military Robots

Skype Translator Likes to Swear in Chinese

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