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Artificial intelligence still has severe limitations in recognizing what it's seeing

They're endearingly bad at it, to be honest.

Novel AI can master games like chess and Go by itself, no humans needed

How do you spell "checkmate" in binary?

New AI solves most Captcha codes, potentially causing a "huge security vulnerability"

Please prove that you are human.

New model boils morality down to three elements, aims to impart them to AI

Now computers can feel guilty too, hooray!

AI-controlled glider learns to ride air currents like an eagle

Autonomous aircraft could save energy or study migratory birds using this machine learning tech.

Google just let an Artificial Intelligence take care of cooling a data center

This could save Google millions of dollars -- and it also ushers in a new age of technology.

German banking giant is using AI to write its earnings reports

Previously, the same technology was used to write quick reports on soccer matches or political events such as elections. 

AI is starting to beat us at our favorite games: Dota2

AI killed the video game star.

An AI recreated the periodic table from scratch -- in a couple of hours

Nerd.

NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars

Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.

Nightmarish but brilliant blobs -- AI-generated nudes would probably make Dali jealous

Hard to look at, harder to look away.

AI spots thousands of craters on the Moon -- including over 6,000 previously undiscovered ones

The AIs are getting better and better.

'Self-aware', predatory, digital slug mimics the behavior of the animal it was modeled on

Printing brains on PC circuits seems to be all the rage nowadays.

Google AI can now look at your retina and predict the risk of heart disease

After analyzing data from over a quarter million patients, the neural network can predict the patient's age (within a 4-year range), gender, smoking status, blood pressure, body mass index, and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Will AI start to take over writing? How will we manage it?

An AI writer -- can this really be?

Chinese AI outperforms humans in language comprehension test -- the first time a machine ever has

011010.... Oh, wait, carbon-based life-form, I meant "Hello".

Scientist trains AI to generate Halloween costumes ideas, and some are pretty good

Could AIs be... creative?

Elon Musk's AI just beat the pros at Dota 2 -- one of the most popular and complex computer games

Robots are now beating us at computer games.

Researchers quantify basic rules of ethics and morality, plan to copy them into smart cars, even AI

Be good, drive good.

Endowing AI with confidence and doubt will make it more useful, paper argues

More like us, in other words.

Even 'dumb AI' can supercharge human activity and efficiency, study reprots

Two heads are better than one.

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

Elon Musk reveals that Neuralink is aimed at stopping AIs from taking over

Such a cool problem to have.

Emotional computers really freak people out -- a new take on the uncanny valley

Be like us, but not us.

DeepMind can now learn how to use its memories, apply knowledge to new tasks

The AI developed by Alphabet, Google's parent company, just received a new and powerful update.

Google asks Pixar, The Onion writers to make its helper more human-like

Can't wait to see what they come up with.

Russian police arrested a robot and here's why I'm not Ok with that

Witnesses say the robot complied peacefully.

Scientists quantify human intelligence for first time ever using MRI scans

A particular pattern in the human brain is connected to higher levels of intelligence.

Weapons shouldn't be able to decide themselves to end a life - Hawking, Musk, Wozniak sign letter requesting the ban of autonomous weapons and military AI

A very large number of scientific and technological luminaries have signed an open letter calling for the world's governments to ban the development of "offensive autonomous weapons" to prevent a "military AI arms race."

Killer AI? Let’s Solve the Smaller Problems First

Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk has said that our civilization is dangerously close to encountering AI problems within a “five-year timeframe, 10 years at most.” He made the comment on the website Edge.org shortly before deleting it. His point was that, sometime soon, we may actually create a form of artificial intelligence that decides to rise […]