Artificial Intelligence

November 5, 2018 at 6:37 pm

Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk VIEW

Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, "gait recognition" is part of a push across China to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven...

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This photo provided by Christie’s shows a portrait of Edmond de Belamy, a work of art created by artificial intelligence, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 in New York. Christie’s will become the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. (Photo Courtesy of Christie’s via AP) NYR109 NYR109

October 28, 2018 at 2:20 pm

A 17-year-old developed the code for the AI portrait that sold for $432,000 at Christie’s

Getting machines to make AI art is sort of like trying to present a fake ID to a bartender at 10 p.m. on a Saturday:...

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October 26, 2018 at 6:44 pm

The next Big One? Earthquake scientists look to AI.

Scientists have a miserable record of predicting where and when earthquakes will strike. Some are now turning to artificial intelligence for answers.

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“We want the people of this country and especially the people who serve this country to know that we at Microsoft have their back,” President Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Friday. Elaine Thompson, The Associated Press)

October 26, 2018 at 12:00 pm

Microsoft President Brad Smith defends company’s work with U.S. military, bid for Pentagon contract

The blog post comes as employees raise questions about Microsoft's defense work and as the company bids for a big Pentagon cloud-computing contract.

040914 – TUKWILA, WA – Protesters representing Native American tribes from across the country demonstrate outside the Tukwila offices of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) Thursday. Tribal representatives lent their support to families torn apart by the detention and deportation of immigrants. The protest was peaceful, and officers stood well off the building plaza.

October 23, 2018 at 11:56 am

Amazon officials pitched their facial recognition software to ICE

Amazon representatives appear to have pitched the company's facial recognition software to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Such tools have been in the...

Production at Kay Manufacturing, an automotive parts company in Calumet City on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. The manufacturing company has been incorporating collaborative robots, widely known as cobots, into its production process. The Universal Robots are used mostly for end-of-line tasks, packaging and palletizing parts off a conveyor. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

October 18, 2018 at 6:05 pm

Manufacturers adopt robots that help human workers, not replace them

“Cobots,” or collaborative robots, are becoming an increasingly popular automation tool for manufacturers seeking to boost productivity.

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October 15, 2018 at 4:17 pm

TSA bringing facial recognition to airport security lanes

TSA laid out plans to start using the technology on international travelers entering and leaving the U.S. and then expanding it to tests on domestic...

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October 15, 2018 at 10:44 am

Roboticist trains AI to tell people their fortunes WATCH

Alexander Reben trained artificial intelligence to create restaurant-style fortune-cookie fortunes. The roboticist didn't expect that the AI would start producing strange and ominous messages, many...

October 15, 2018 at 5:52 am

MIT plans college for artificial intelligence, backed by $1 billion

The goal, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of MIT, is to educate “the bilinguals of the future.” Blackstone’s Steven A. Schwarzman is contributing $350...

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October 14, 2018 at 12:18 pm

Jeff Hawkins, creator of Palm and Handspring, is finally ready to explain his brain research

He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.

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