Artificial Intelligence

Harish Natarajan, who holds the world record for most debate competition victories, took on IBM Project Debater, the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics, at a live debate at IBM Think 2019. While the live audience named Harish the winner of the debate, a majority said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge, underscoring the AI technology’s potential to help human’s make better and more informed decisions.

February 12, 2019 at 4:54 am

A human just triumphed over IBM’s 6-year-old AI debater WATCH

The tech giant's artificial intelligence debating system, Project Debater, went head-to-head Monday with one of the world's most decorated practitioners. The machine impressed, but the...

Business

February 10, 2019 at 9:02 pm

Trump calls for investment in artificial intelligence, but lack of details troubles some

The plan, called the American AI Initiative, follows big investment pledges from China and other countries intended to advance and apply AI technology in fields...

February 8, 2019 at 11:40 am

What does the Seattle man who invented Pictionary think about its artificial-intelligence use?

Iconary, which pairs humans and software in a drawing-and-guessing game from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was inspired by Pictionary, invented in Seattle more...

Ani Kembhavi, a senior research scientists at AI2, shows a new game-playing A.I. system that can play a version of pictionary with humans. The game was developed by researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Photographed Friday, February 1, 2019. 209208

February 5, 2019 at 7:00 am

Game on! Playing a drawing game connects AllenAI computer with humans’ common sense

A new take on the classic Seattle drawing and guessing game — developed by the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence — is a research test...

February 4, 2019 at 2:59 pm

Robot, know thyself; machines get more self-aware

NEW YORK (AP) — Forget dreaming of electric sheep. Robots first need to figure out how to imagine themselves. One New York robot has done...

Business

FILE — Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 1, 2018. In 2018, Buolamwini conducted a study measuring how facial recognition technology works on people of different races and gender and found that the technology made more errors the darker the person’s skin is. In new tests, Amazon’s facial recognition system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)

January 24, 2019 at 5:40 pm

Amazon is pushing facial-recognition technology that a new study says could be biased

A new MIT study finds that Amazon’s system, Rekognition, had much more difficulty in telling the gender of female faces and of darker-skinned faces in...

Georgia Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has received a fleet of 25 delivery robots that can haul up to 20 pounds each as they roll across campus at 10 miles per hour, according to Starship Technologies. MUST CREDIT: Jeff Elkins/Starship Technologies

January 22, 2019 at 10:02 am

New university dining option: Food delivered by robots

George Mason University in Virginia has a fleet of 25 robots that can haul up to 20 pounds each as they roll across campus at...

Nation & World

January 8, 2019 at 10:04 am

VCs plowed a record $9.3 billion into AI startups last year

Venture capital funding of AI companies soared 72 percent last year, hitting a record $9.3 billion, according to a new report from PwC and CB...

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January 4, 2019 at 11:49 pm

A new generation of artificial intelligence is taking on hackers

Microsoft, Google, Amazon and various startups are deploying machine-learning algorithms that crunch massive amounts of data on logins, behavior and previous attacks to ferret out...

Business

Artificially intelligent virtual assistants will take center stage as the year’s most important topic, with tech companies big and small expected to showcase voice-controlled devices like robot vacuums, alarm clocks, refrigerators and car accessories. (Glenn Harvey/The New York Times) –

January 3, 2019 at 3:50 pm

Devices that will invade your life in 2019 (and what’s overhyped)

AI that responds to your voice. Next-generation wireless networks. If this year’s biggest consumer technology trends have a familiar ring, there’s a reason for that.

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