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Artificial Intelligence is helping economists devise a fairer tax system

Artificial algorithms could make our economy more human and fair.

More than 24,000 AI-readable coronavirus scientific articles go online

The sum of human knowledge on the new coronavirus is now online, in a format readable by artificial intelligence.

India's first political deepfake during elections is deeply concerning

A deepfake of the president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party went viral on WhatsApp in the country earlier this month.

Why healthcare professionals need to understand AI

AI is now advancing at an unprecedented rate, making it increasingly part of our healthcare system.

AI upscales iconic 1895 film to 4K 60fps and the results are amazing

One of the world's first motion pictures has been adapted to modern-day standards by several neural networks.

AI: a tool both for detecting and enhancing student plagiarism

Taking shortcuts in education has never been easier in today's machine-powered age.

AI learns to play chess by studying game commentaries instead of practicing

Instead of practicing millions of games, this machine analyzes the language of sports commentators to master chess.

'Smart' glass recognizes numbers without the need for sensors or even electrical power

Scientists have devised a novel system that can recognize visual objects by bending light.

AI is better at diagnosing skin cancer than even some of the best human experts

We're about to witness a paradigm shift in how diseases are being diagnosed.

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

AI is getting weirder by the day.

The world's first AI-written textbook showcases what machine learning can do -- and what it can't

The technology could have a surprising use.

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.

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

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

Look at all these faces. None of them are real -- they were created by an AI

Un-real.

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.

AI outperforms top corporate lawyers in accuracy -- and is 100 times faster

Justice by robots sounds like the future we've all been waiting for.

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

Now computers can feel guilty too, hooray!

SETI project uses AI to track down mysterious light source

Scientists are still in the dark but the new insights place them a step closer to the source of fast radio bursts.

AI spots depression by looking at your patterns of speech

Computer: "What is my purpose?" MIT: "You spot depression!" Computer: :(

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.

How artificial intelligence is destined to revamp education

Is there anything AI won't touch?

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

The AIs are getting better and better.

AI can now tell if you're a man or a woman, just by your smile

You know how everyone says 'smile' before you snap a pic? That was Skynet's plan all along!

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.

New objective blood test could diagnose autism in children

The test could be a game changer for identifying autism.

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

An AI writer -- can this really be?

AI may have deciphered the Voynich Manuscript -- the most mysterious coded book in the world

After many failed attempts, artificial intelligence comes to the rescue.

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".

Artificial Intelligence can tell you your blood pressure, age, and smoking status -- just by looking at your eye

The eyes can also be a window into a person's health.

AI determines whether a neighborhood will vote Republican or Democrat based on pickup truck density

Tell me what you drive and I'll tell you who you'll vote for.

Google's AlphaZero surpassed the sum of human chess knowledge -- in 4 hours

Feeling outdated yet?

Swarm AI correctly predicted TIME's Person of the Year

The swarm intelligence found the #MeToo movement as the clear winner. It's the second time in a row it guessed TIME's POTY.

Robot learns like a toddler to predict future outcomes in its environment

Taking inspiration from babies, this machine learns to predict seconds into the future.

Artificial Intelligence might soon be judging gymnastics

Would you be OK with computers being the judges of gymnastics?

Scam the scammers: New AI Bot messes with scammers by pretending to be a human victim

Hello sir, it is me, the Nigerian prince.

The AI buster-buster: new machine dominates AI that dominated humans at Go

It seems our AI overlords have overlords of themselves.

Smartphone AI spots sick plants with remarkable accuracy

In a new advancement, scientists developed an algorithm that can identify sick plants based on sight alone.

Burger-flipping robot will grill meat in 50 fast food restaurants

This will set you back $100k.

AI is designed to create motivational quotes. Things go hilariously awry

This AI seems to have gone insane. Loco!

AI is better than doctors at predicting how long a patient has to live

Some information is just unreadable to humans.

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

More like us, in other words.

Google is shifting their focus from Search to artificial intelligence, CEO says

There's a lot of data to be had -- and Google wants it.

Robots could soon write emotional or motivating songs

Inserting feelings into Artificial Intelligence music -- the future is kinda happening already.

A.I. for Texas Hold'em has 10 times the win rate of professional poker players

After the researchers gave the AI "intuition", it blew away most professional human players.

Even bots have arguments. Some Wikipedia bots can undo each other for years before settling an edit

An important incursion into bot sociology.

Google's Deepmind artificial intelligence learns to be greedy and aggressive when resources are scarce

This is what you get when you teach AI to behave like a human.

Scientists override fear response in humans using artificial intelligence and hard cash

Researchers think this method could help patients with PTSD and phobias.

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.

This is the first pop song written by an A.I. and it sounds a lot like The Beatles

You can dance to it. Who said robots were boring?