AI

Google made an annoying AI that explains why jokes are supposed to be funny

The ultimate goal is to close the gap between machine and human reasoning.

AI turns speech into portraits -- and it's eerily accurate sometimes

It's the racist uncle of computers.

AI-assisted test diagnoses prostate cancer from urine with almost 100% accuracy

The test only takes 20 minutes.

They took our jobs... but we're okay with it? AI-related job growth linked to improved social welfare

Well, this is unexpected.

Text AI can produce images -- and it's very good at it

AI is already nearing sci-fi territory.

Scientists urge ban on AIs designed to predict crime, Minority Report-style

You can't 'predict' crime without being racially biased because 'criminality' itself is racially biased, experts warn.

Can AI replace newsroom journalists?

AIs that write news are great with numbers, but fail terribly with people. There might hope for us jurnalists after all.

How AI and data analytics do their part in the COVID-19 crisis

Healthcare analytics could become an indispensable weapon in scientists' warchest against pandemics in the future.

Alibaba designs new AI tool to diagnose coronavirus; it's 96% accurate

The tool has already been introduced in the Qiboshan Hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan, and plans are underway to expand it to a further 100 sites.

AI is outpacing Moore's Law

AI performance is doubling nearly every 3 months, a new report shows.

Researchers teach AI to design, say it did 'quite good' but won't steal your job (yet)

The AI is "learning how people solve a specific type of problem and creating new design solutions from scratch."

AI is beating almost all of mankind at Starcraft

Let's teach AI to beat us at strategy war games -- that sounds like a neat idea.

AI enables mind-controlled handwriting in paralyzed person

A neural network interprets the thoughts of paralyzed patients who image using a pen to form letters and words.

Trippy AI writes interactive text adventure game on the fly

The algorithm took inspiration from Ender's Game.

Is AI in danger of becoming too male?

Only 13.83% of AI authors in arXiv are women and, in relative terms, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not improved since the 1990s.

AI draws amazing caricatures from photos

Is there any job that an AI can't do?

AI can create convincing talking head from a single picture or painting

AI is getting weirder by the day.

AI fail: Chinese driver gets fine for scratching his face

Uhm, what now?

Scientists present device that transforms brain activity into speech

This could be transformative for so many people suffering from speech impairment.

Researchers are looking into giving AI the power of reading soldiers' minds -- to help them in battle

Cool research, even if its purpose is somewhat troubling.

Humans and computers can be fooled by the same tricky images

The gap between humans and AI is getting narrower by the day.

AI is so good at inventing stories that its creators had to shut it down to avoid 'fake news'

OpenAI thinks that its AI is too dangerous to risk having it fall into the wrong hands.

AI detects childhood diseases with doctor-like accuracy

This isn't meant to replace doctors, but help them and speed up the diagnosis process.

Organic transistors bring us closer to brain-mimicking AI

It has the ability to learn, and is equipped with both short-term and long-term memory.

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.