A sombre story has emerged of a robot which inadvertently killed a man at a factory in Germany. This tragic incident happened during the installation of a robot which is ...
July 3, 2015 at 10:00 am by Christopher Files
Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that instant messaging over mobile devices and computer will be rendered obsolete by… telepathy? According to Zuckerberg, ...
July 2, 2015 at 11:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Google, probably the only company not scaremongering over the impending singularity, has had a run-in with one of its own artificial intelligence systems. The AI, whose ...
June 29, 2015 at 12:58 am by Ashley Allen
When a car driver pulls out in front of a fellow motorist, you will more often than not be called a variation of the word banker, although to be fair most bankers are called, ...
June 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm by Christopher Files
Let’s picture the scene, you upload a snap of a special occasion to your Facebook account to share with your friends, family and followers, as there are many people in ...
June 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm by Christopher Files
In the wake of a number of important figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking, expressing their fears over the prospect of ...
June 8, 2015 at 9:29 pm by Ashley Allen
The likes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking have been agitating over the last few months about humankind being subjugated, enslaved, or ...
June 6, 2015 at 6:56 pm by Ashley Allen
An artificial intelligence has, with absolute autonomy (i.e. no input from humans), cracked a 120-year-old biological mystery. A team of computer scientists and biologists ...
June 6, 2015 at 6:55 am by Ashley Allen
We’ve heard that Facebook is keen on finding talented people in the AI field by opening a new research lab in Paris, but what is Google up to with its own AI research? ...
June 4, 2015 at 7:55 am by Gabriel Roşu
There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence as of late, particularly in regards to the dangers that it could pose. However, despite warnings from the likes of ...
June 1, 2015 at 5:55 pm by Cernescu Andrei
An artificial intelligence expert has warned the development of killer robots, or Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), capable of engaging targets without human ...
May 29, 2015 at 4:55 am by Ashley Allen
Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center for Intelligent Systems at the University of California and pioneer in the field of artificial ...
May 23, 2015 at 11:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Artificial intelligence could be given “common sense” within ten years, according to Google’s leading AI scientist. Professor Geoff Hinton, the man tasked with ...
May 23, 2015 at 6:58 am by Ashley Allen
If you are thinking about a Terminator scenario when hearing the word ‘advanced artificial intelligence’, then you are not alone. Stephen Hawking makes his own ...
May 16, 2015 at 3:58 am by Gabriel Roşu
Elon Musk, founder of electric car firm Tesla and astronautics outfit SpaceX, is again expressing his concerns about the technological singularity, the point at which ...
May 14, 2015 at 8:58 pm by Ashley Allen
