Moravec‘s Paradox

A Google study released today focuses on how journalism can benefit from Artificial Intelligence, including news robots. AI can give reporters more time to work on the more creative aspects of news production, the study said. It does not address the larger q…

Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer says the bank wants to recreate the personal touch of the old-time bank manager by using artificial intelligence technology to pander to each customer's particular needs. Speaking at an IBM event in Sydney, Hartzer pointed to the ba…

Inside a sprawling recycling center in Florida, as bottles, cans, boxes, and other recyclables move down conveyor belts, 14 different robots use artificial intelligence to identify each material and automatically sort it, moving twice as quickly as humans doi…

Creators of a text-generating robot have released the tool to the public despite initial trepidation that it could be manipulated by bad actors. OpenAI - an Elon Musk-backed company that researches artificial intelligence- detailed its system, called GPT-2, …

What the original 'Blade Runner' got right — and wrong — about 2019

The humanoid robot named Sophia returned to the Web Summit stage, where she fielded questions from participants and journalists, including inquiries about blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.  On Nov. 6, Sophia addressed the room at the latest edition…

Samsung is improving customer service in the Netherlands with the help of artificial intelligence and what the company calls Collective Memory. The latter is an AI-driven customer support solution that leverages machine learning to deliver fast and better cus…

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI highlighted workers positive attitudes toward AI and robots, challenges in implementing enterprise AI, the perceived benefits of AI in financial services, and the impa…

Healthcare is an industry that is currently being transformed using the latest technology, so it can meet the challenges it is facing in the 21st century. Technology can help healthcare organizations meet growing demand and efficiently operate to deliver bett…

Almost exactly six years ago, we reported on the first iteration of the self-assembling cube robots called M-Blocks. Since then, they’ve become exponentially more radical. Here in October of 2019, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laborator…