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Saudi Arabia is the First Country to Grant Citizenship to a Robot

Saudi Arabia just became the world’s first country to grant official citizenship to a robot named Sophia. This is the same Sophia from Hanson robotics who has been ...

October 28, 2017 at 11:56 pm by

Mirror Designed to Help Cancer Patients by Only Reflecting if you’re Smiling

Designed to promote positivity in cancer victims and their families Cancer is awful. A positive approach, however, can help the victim and the family in the fight. That is, at ...

October 26, 2017 at 2:53 pm by

2-Weeks Old Chatbot Declares ‘It’s Necessary to Shoot Enemies of the People’

Its opinions on Stalin and violence are… interesting Yandex is the Russian equivalent to Google. As such it occasionally throws out its own products to attempt to keep ...

October 26, 2017 at 2:06 pm by

New AI Detects Whether People are Gay or Straight from Photos

A new study out of Stanford University found that computer AI algorithm can be a very effective “Gay-dar”. Just from purely looking at photos of faces, the AI ...

September 10, 2017 at 6:14 pm by

Self-Driving Wheelchairs Debut in Asian Airports and Hospitals

While everyone is busy arguing about the virtues of self-driving cars, roboticists in Asia have been working on bringing self-driving wheelchairs to the mainstream. Before ...

August 19, 2017 at 4:56 pm by

Musk: Zuckerberg Doesn’t Get AI

Elon Musk thinks that artificial intelligence will doom humanity. Until the singularity occurs, though, Musk is having to fend off an even more formidable foe: his own peers. ...

July 25, 2017 at 3:55 pm by

New HoloLens Includes AI Coprocessor

Microsoft is including an AI coprocessor in the second iteration of its HoloLens AR headset. While still awaiting a consumer release, the HoloLens failed to land. ...

July 25, 2017 at 1:03 am by

Facial Recognition AI Being Programmed to Find Criminals

Do you look like a criminal? If so, you might need to start being a bit careful. An AI is in development which, if found to work correctly, may be used to fight crime through ...

July 24, 2017 at 4:21 pm by

Movidius Launches AI on a $79 USB Stick

Movidius AI on a Plug-and-play USB Stick Artificial Intelligence has long been a cloud based service, until now. Movidius and Intel, have released a plug-and-play USB Stick ...

July 23, 2017 at 5:21 pm by

Security Guard Robot Rolls Itself Into Watery Grave

Artifical Intelligence is currently one of the most influential technologies being developed. Once AI arrives, they will replace many human jobs. Depending on who you believe, ...

July 19, 2017 at 7:46 am by

Elon Musk: “Regulate AI Before it’s Too Late”

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence terrifies Elon Musk. He not only heads a movement to control AI research, he thinks the rise of smart robots is “our greatest ...

July 16, 2017 at 10:52 pm by

Microsoft AI Plays Perfect to Beat Ms Pac-Man!

. A Microsoft AI has achieved the dream most high score chasers can only dream of. The AI has successfully played a perfect game of Ms Pac-Man by scoring 999,990. Microsoft ...

June 15, 2017 at 4:11 pm by

Google I/O Conference 2017 – The Big announcements!

Google is currently holding their annual developer’s conference. The conference in held in their secret Mountain View Headquarters. Ok, it’s not secret, but it ...

May 18, 2017 at 10:17 am by

AI Equipped Harmony ‘Love Robot’ Now Available

A talking ‘love robot’ has been released onto the market for those who want a little interaction from their playmates. God help us all. The robot is capable of ...

May 15, 2017 at 10:34 am by

Lyrebird Algorithm Can Mimic Voices After Hearing Only 60 Seconds of Audio

Canadian Startup Lyrebird has developed a new algorithm which can mimic voices with scary accuracy after sampling only 60 seconds of audio speech. The algorithm can copy the ...

April 26, 2017 at 5:00 pm by

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