Moravec‘s Paradox

With McDonald's(NYSE:MCD) acquisition of early-stage artificial intelligence specialist Apprente, the fast-food leader is quickly transforming itself into a technology leader.  The purchase marks the burger joint's third investment in a tech company this yea…

An MQ-9 Reaper drone flies over Creech Air Force Base, Nev., in 2015. (Senior Airman Cory D. Payne/USAF) Autonomous weapons endanger liberty.In the fall of 1989, the peoples of Eastern Europe rose up against their Communist oppressors. The tyrants ruling the…

Affectiva cofounders Rana el Kaliousby and Rosalind Picard Courtesy of Affectiva Forbes new list of promising artificial intelligence companies highlights how the technology is creating real value across industries like transportation, healthcare, HR, insu…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption Fedor made history as the first of his kind to enter space - but his impact up there was minimal Russia likes to boast of its robots - but at the same time it seems to have a somewhat troubled relationship with them. It has…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin It is no secret that e-commerce is forcing brick-and-mortar stores to keep up with the evolution of retail. E-commerce, though quicker and easier, can sometimes fall flat …

Artificial intelligence is infiltrating every industry, allowing vehicles to navigate without drivers, assisting doctors with medical diagnoses, and mimicking the way humans speak. But for all the authentic and exciting ways its transforming the tasks compute…

Spider-Man: Far From Home made so much money that Sony could probably develop its own genetically engineered spiders to alter Tom Holland's DNA just to save some time on CGI. Among other things, it was the first movie in the MCU after Endgame, and thus answer…

September 16, 2019 AT 10:00 pm Learning Machine Learning: A Comic from Google AI #GoogleAI #MachineLearning #Art #ArtificialIntelligence #Comic #Education @scottmccloud @dmeconis @SyneMitchell @jemale From @scottmccloud on Twitter @scottmccloud recently po…

A former Google engineer who worked on the company's infamous military drone project has sounded a warning against the building of killer robots. Laura Nolan had been working at Google four years when she was recruited to its collaboration with the US Depa…

This article is part of Fast Company’s editorial series “The New Rules of AI.” More than 60 years into the era of artificial intelligence, the world’s largest technology companies are just beginning to crack open what’s possible with AI—and grapple with how i…