Scientists built a fast, accurate, AI-powered universe simulation, but they don’t know how
Everyone’s had a moment or two in their lives where they pull off an incredible feat but can’t explain how they did it. Perhaps it …
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Samsung perfected its own deepfake AI, and it’s equal parts amazing and terrifying
Imagine using a black and white photo of your great-grandparents to see what their facial expression would have looked like as they speak. That’s the …
Google built an AI that detects lung cancer better than human doctors
Science fiction has taught us to fear the inevitable rise of digital brains, and while it’s true that handing too much power to machines of …
AI is now better at predicting mortality than human doctors
As scientists continue to toil away at creating machine learning algorithms that will one day enslave humanity save us all, artificial intelligence researchers have discovered …
Man, the humans in this AI-created video look jaw-droppingly real
For all the scary talk about what nefarious deeds AI will be capable of one day, a geeky fight that tends to spark debate about …
Apple poaches another AI expert from Google for its ‘special projects’ group
Google is apparently starting to become the farm team for Apple’s artificial intelligence work. The iPhone maker has just poached another AI expert from the …
Scientists created an AI that can predict when a person will die
Fears of an AI-controlled robot takeover aside, artificial intelligence has provided mankind with an incredible opportunity to leverage incredible computational power for use in a …
Running Bob Ross through Google’s DeepDream is just as terrifying as you’d imagine
When it comes to creepy AI-powered software, Google’s DeepDream is hard to beat. Born from an initiative to classify and categorize images, the software is …
Scientists trained an AI to identify lung cancer, and now it’s as smart as a pathologist
As AI continues to permeate just about every aspect of our lives, we’re now beginning to see some serious advances in the ability of computer …
Keep refreshing this page to see AI-generated faces that look completely real
The young woman’s face at the top of this post might not strike you at first glance as strange or off in any way. Which …
Scientists built a robot that taught itself what it is
AI researchers who develop machine learning algorithms have demonstrated that telling a machine to teach itself how to do a certain task is a pretty …
Oh great, Russian fighter pilots are going to start flying with scary AI wingmen
Well, it seems Russian military officials don’t want to just stop with that fearsome new hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile that was tested last month, which …
The next big thing in PCs might be artificial intelligence, and now Lenovo has an AI laptop
We’ve been talking about artificial intelligence on smartphones for quite a while now, but there’s no reason AI features need to be confined to phones. …
Scientists taught AI to spot Alzheimer’s years before traditional diagnosis
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating brain disorder that has no known cure. Studies have shown that you can improve your chances of keeping it at …
Elon Musk suggests the first ‘resident’ of Mars might be an AI
There’s been plenty of talk lately about future missions to Mars that will carry human crew members. It would be an incredible achievement to successfully …
New addition to Apple’s executive team shows how serious the company is about AI
The conventional wisdom among the tech cognoscenti has been that Apple lags behind rivals like Google and Amazon when it comes to its efforts in …
ESA’s adorable space station AI had an emotional meltdown in his debut
It’s been many months since the European Space Agency announced that it was building an AI for testing aboard the International Space Station. Named “CIMON” …
British cops want to see if AI can prevent crimes, like ‘Minority Report’ in real life
Governments and entities around the world are starting to venture deep into Minority Report-land, giving serious attention to the use of artificial intelligence and scoring …
An AI developer is building a HAL-9000-inspired system for space stations
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the past decade or so, but one of the scariest portrayals of how AI could ultimate doom …
Google’s AI is now better than doctors at spotting breast cancer
Cancer researchers are constantly advancing the technology that doctors use to screen for, detect, and treat all kinds of cancers, and the survivability prospects have …
Researchers built AI-powered gliders that learn how to fly just like birds
It took mankind untold eons to learn how to fly, but now artificial intelligence is doing something similar and in a fraction of the time. …
Facebook is using a meme-sniffing AI to hunt down offensive posts
Policing hate speech and offensive content on a platform as large as Facebook is a big challenge. Filtering for nasty words and phrases is simple …
The Pentagon is going to spend $2 billion on AI because things are getting serious now
If North Korea’s dear leader wakes up tomorrow, takes a crazy pill and decides to lob a nuclear missile at the U.S. mainland, there’s a …
A Harvard scientist built an AI that can predict earthquake aftershocks, with help from Google
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict. When they happen in a major city or populated area they can be utterly devastating, and warning people ahead …
I’m officially creeped out by this robot’s lifelike facial expressions
Sometime around a decade ago the graphical quality of video games reached a point that people referred to as the “uncanny valley.” The term, which …
Scientists trained an AI to write poetry, and now it’s standing toe-to-toe with Shakespeare
If science fiction has taught us anything it’s that artificial intelligence will one day lead to the downfall of the entirety of mankind. That day …
Bots just beat human pros at ‘Dota 2’ and it wasn’t even much of a contest
The research initiative co-founded by Elon Musk has successfully trained AI bots to trounce professional human players of the popular arena battle game Dota 2, …
Google really, really wants to replace call center workers with AI
This is the second time in a matter of just a few weeks we’re back writing about how Google is working on artificial intelligence software …
ESA’s slightly creepy AI assistant is headed to the International Space Station and definitely won’t kill everyone
Science fiction movies have taught us that mixing AI with space travel rarely works out well. From HAL 9000 to Mother, something always seems to …
Google’s creepily human-like Duplex AI is coming to the real world
Google is getting closer to introducing its new Duplex AI into the real world, Duplex being the assistive AI that Google built to talk like …
