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AI
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How Many Times Do You Think Your Life Was Affected By A Robot?
Unless you have a robot vacuum cleaner, you might say that robots had no real impact on your life.…
2019-05-21
How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect Our Lives
Artificial Intelligence or, in short, AI, is slowly becoming a part of our everyday lives. While we don’t…
2019-03-12
Everyone Is Talking About AI—But Do They Mean the Same Thing?
In 2017, artificial intelligence attracted $12 billion of VC investment. We are only beginning to discover the usefulness…
2018-08-29
How AI Could Increase The Risk Of Nuclear War
Could artificial intelligence upend concepts of nuclear deterrence that have helped spare the world from nuclear war since…
2018-05-22
Dungeons & Dragons, Not Chess & Go : Why AI Needs Roleplay
Everyone had died – not that you’d know it, from how they were laughing about their poor choices…
2018-05-04
How The U.S. Needs To Prepare For The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Government indifference toward AI could let the US lose ground to rival countries. But what would a good…
2018-04-18
Algorithms Are Making American Inequality Worse
In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts…
2018-04-04
Beyond The AI Hype: AI Is Here And Now, And Adoption Is Rising
There is no doubt that AI is the topic that is going to dominate 2018 – I think…
2018-03-23
AI Keeps Mastering Games, But Can It Win in the Real World?
The challenges of moving bots off the chess board and into the mess of life. Until very recently,…
2018-03-15
Top Breakthrough Technologies For 2018 : AI For Everybody
Artificial intelligence has so far been mainly the plaything of big tech companies like Amazon, Baidu, Google, and…
2018-03-08
The Seven Deadly Sins Of AI Predictions
Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.…
2018-02-16
5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save The Planet
From smarter electric grids to automated monitoring of at-risk environments, there are many areas where technology could have…
2018-02-13
How To Manage AI’s Risks & Rewards
Technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to be pervasive, with impacts and ramifications in health, economics, security…
2018-02-09
Google & Others Are Building AI Systems That Doubt Themselves
The most powerful approach in AI, deep learning, is gaining a new capability: a sense of uncertainty. Researchers…
2018-01-11
While U.S. Workers Fear Automation, Swedish Employees Welcome It
Two-thirds of Americans believe robots will soon take over the majority of tasks currently done by humans. Swedes, on…
2017-12-30
The Future Of AI Revenue : Top 10 Use Cases For AI In The Next Decade
Artificial intelligence already impacts many aspects of our daily lives at work, at home, and as we move…
2017-12-21
How Technology Is Transforming Human Behaviour, For Better Or Worse
What exactly do we mean by an “enhanced” human? When this possibility is brought up, what is generally…
2017-12-21
3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As…
2017-12-15
The Benefits And Risk Of Artificial Intelligence
WHAT IS AI? From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often…
2017-12-14
Using AI to Solve Complex Global Supply Chain Management Challenges
Companies are starting to apply artificial intelligence across global supply chain management to improve efficiency, speed and decision-making in areas…
2017-12-11
Ambient AI Is About To Devour The Software Industry
Amazon has casually unveiled what could turn into a fundamentally different way to build software. At its AWS conference in Las…
2017-12-08
It’s About To Get Way, Way Easier To Put AI Everywhere
Google has a vision for a world full of cheap and tiny smart devices—and it hopes its software…
2017-11-27
Artificial Intelligence May Reflect The Unfair World We Live In
We’ve all heard Elon Musk speak with foreboding about the danger AI poses — something he says may…
2017-11-16
Does Regulating AI Save Humanity Or Just Stifle Innovation?
Some people are afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robots might take over the world, enslaving humanity – or perhaps…
2017-11-15
When Artificial Intelligence Rules The City
When we think of the city of the future, we might think about flying cars and scenes from “Star Trek”…
2017-11-03
AI Is Reshaping What We Know About Cities
Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities. Why do certain neighborhoods feel safe while some feel…
2017-11-02
In These Small Cities, AI Advances Could Be Costly
A new MIT study finds that larger cities are more resilient to technological unemployment. It’s long been clear…
2017-10-31
5 Reasons How Smart Cities Will Fail Us
Emergent technologies are poised to radically change how we work and live. They will transform our cities and…
2017-09-19
Are Algorithms Ruining Our Lives?
Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they’re…
2017-07-21
Who’s To Blame When Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong?
There has been much discussion of late of the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), especially regarding robot weapons…
2015-08-18