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 ...
April 15, 2016 at 11:30 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
April 7, 2016 at 11:40 am by Gareth Andrews
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 ...
March 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Alexander Neil
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 ...
March 31, 2016 at 11:00 am by Peter Donnell
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 ...
March 24, 2016 at 7:00 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
March 18, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
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 ...
March 15, 2016 at 6:40 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
March 12, 2016 at 9:34 am by Alexander Neil
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 ...
March 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm by Ashley Allen
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, ...
March 9, 2016 at 10:40 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
March 5, 2016 at 10:20 am by Alexander Neil
An artificial intelligence system that has in the past successfully predicted the winners of the Super Bowl and the Iowa Caucus has had a stab at predicting the results of the ...
February 26, 2016 at 6:49 pm by Ashley Allen
Google are making AI for all kinds of purposes, including tackling the challenging Chinese game of Go. Now, they have revealed their latest deep-learning program, PlaNet, ...
February 25, 2016 at 8:10 pm by Alexander Neil
These days having a social media presence is up there alongside having a driving license or passport, for everything from seeing your friends get new jobs and houses to ...
February 23, 2016 at 10:20 am by Gareth Andrews
A computational engineer has warned that artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed within 30 years, and that he fears for the psyche of the human race, ...
February 14, 2016 at 6:10 pm by Ashley Allen
