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Grad Students Fooled by AI Teaching Assistant
AI has a growing place in our society and a number of them are becoming harder and harder to distinguish from humans while performing their tasks. This has been further shown off by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Jill Watson, a teaching assistant that the university had been employing for a…
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Siri’s Creators Reveal Amazing New AI Assistant
In the last 4 years since Siri made its debut, the assistant AI has helped and entertained many users of Apple’s iOS-based products around the world. Now, Siri’s creators Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer have revealed their latest AI project, Viv, that has been in stealth-development in the years after Siri’s release.…
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The White House Scared of Badly Programmed AI
As technology evolves and we integrate it into our everyday lives, the risks that badly programmed software continues to pose a threat to everyone, knowingly or not. While not fearing a complete takeover by the likes of a Skynet-like system, the White House is more worried about the subtle mistakes that…
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Google DeepMind to Study Millions of NHS Records
When it comes to our information we are all pretty protective. Even when we give it out online, many use alternative accounts and email addresses in order to protect their true identity or details. This can’t always be done thanks to some information required to be true, such as with your…
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Microsoft’s ‘CaptionBot’ Adds Incorrect Captions to Your Favourite Pictures
Microsoft, as part of its new research into storytelling by artificial intelligence, has released CaptionBot, an AI designed to recognise images and add an appropriate descriptive caption. However, like its previous attempt at AI – chatbot Tay – CaptionBot isn’t entirely successful. As with Tay, though, the results are hilarious…
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Taco Bell is Looking at a Chat Bot to Take Your Orders
During those late nights when you just feel like a quick bite to eat and your favourite show before hitting the hay, we all feel like quickly ordering something in and enjoying the greasy food before the days over. Taco Bell are currently testing a new way for you to…
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Microsoft Populates Skype With Helper-Bots
Your Skype chats could just get a little bit smarter thanks to Microsoft’s new array of assistive helper-bots. These bots were on show at Build 2016, where Microsoft demonstrated how Cortana, as well as a number of third-party ‘bots’ were able to inject information and optional actions into Skype messaging…
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Microsoft’s Racist AI is Back And It’s Still Crazy!
Remember that crazy TayTweets AI that Microsoft unleashed on the (mostly) innocent users of Twitter recently? The one that quickly pick up the bad habits of many online pranksters, turning it into a genocide-denying Nazi lover? Yes, that one. Twitter users be warned, it’s back! Microsoft pulled the AI after it…
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Microsoft’s “Teen Girl” AI Becomes Incestuous Nazi-Lover
Microsoft, in trying to launch a customer service artificial intelligence presented as a teen girl, got a crash course in how you can’t trust the internet after the system became a foul-mouthed, incestuous racist within 24 hours of its launch. The AI, called Tay, engages with – and learns from…
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Machine Learning Algorithm Can Tell If You Are Drunk Tweeting
So you’ve had a few drinks and decide it would be a great idea to drunk text someone? The next morning you wake up and check your phone to see several responses which make you swear to never drink again (or at least until the next night out with your…
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Google’s AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series 4-1
Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol was unable to claw back another consolation win in his five-match battle against AlphaGo, with Google’s artificial intelligence winning the series 4-1. AlphaGo – a development of Google’s DeepMind AI program – forced a narrow victory; Lee showed signs that he was adapting to the formidable…
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AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series In Third Match
Google’s amazing Go-playing AI, AlphaGo, has convincingly beaten Lee Sedol in the Google DeepMind Challenge series, shutting out the reigning human champion in only the third match, bringing the score to 3-0. Just because AlphaGo has won doesn’t mean the series will end here, though, the remaining two matches will still…
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Google DeepMind Wins Second Game Against Go Grandmaster
Go grandmaster was left “speechless” after Google’s DeepMind AI computer won a second game against him. Lee Se-Dol, the reigning human champion of two-player Chinese strategy board game Go, has now lost the first two of five proposed games against the Google-made artificial intelligence, which is running the AlphaGo system…
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Google AI Wins Game 1 Against Human Go Champion
In a sure to be surprising upset, Google’s AI has won Game 1 against the best humanity has to offer. Playing Go against 9dan grand master Lee Se-dol, AlphaGo, DeepMind’s Go playing software, was able to secure a win in the first match in a series of 5. While the series…
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MIT Attempts to Out-Trump Trump With DeepDrumpf Twitterbot
Donald Trump’s antics on social media are infamous at this point, seeming crazy and unpredictable at times. Now, we can all look forward to an improvement to Trump thanks to the field of deep learning. DeepDrumpf is a Twitterbot created by a researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab…
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