Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist
with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147
predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 percent accuracy rate.
Earlier this week, at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Kurzweil made
yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime
in the next 30 years.
ARM, which designs the chips that power virtually every smartphone in the
world, is anticipating a world where artificial intelligence will be
running on every device.
A simple statistical trick could help make a ubiquitous model of decision processes more accurate.
Apple gave us Siri, Microsoft gave us Cortana, Amazon gave us Alexa, Google
gave us, um, Google, and now Samsung has officially introduced its new
AI-powered assistant Bixby to the world.
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are
real or virtual — and what it means either way.
Like every field of science, the importance of clear communication in machine learning research cannot be over-emphasised: it helps to drive forward the state-of-the art by allowing the research community to share, discuss and build upon new findings.F…
New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.
The AI system is able to learn to play one Atari game and then use its
knowledge to learn another.
