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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Algorithms Are Making American Inequality Worse
In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
Are Algorithms Ruining Our Lives?
Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they’re…
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…