Google Brain founder Andrew Ng creates $175 million AI Fund
Silicon Valley is increasingly betting that artificial intelligence will be the next breakthrough technology, and its latest stake is a new venture fund led by a respected AI expert. Andrew Ng is...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Alibaba AI programs beat humans in a Stanford reading test
First, it was chess. Then it was Go. Now it’s basic reading comprehension. The robots are coming. Two artificial intelligence programs created by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Microsoft beat...
View ArticleFacebook taps artificial intelligence to help prevent suicides
Facebook on Monday said it’s using artificial intelligence to detect whether someone is likely expressing thoughts of suicide in a post or live video. The tech firm has been grappling with how to...
View ArticleGoogle Clips: Camera with ‘new angle,’ or a return to creepy?
Is Google bringing creepy back? Some of the reaction to Google Clips, one of the many gadgets the company unveiled Wednesday, is approaching the Google Glass-creep level. Clips is a $249 clip-on camera...
View ArticleSelf-driving cars? Anthony Levandowski wants to create an AI god
Somebody call Elon Musk, worrier-in-chief about AI: Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer at the heart of the legal battle between Waymo and Uber over self-driving vehicles, is also the head...
View ArticleTechies fleeing to Canada in the age of Trump: report
President Donald Trump’s far-right base often complains that big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are censoring conservative views and imposing a nefarious liberal ideology on...
View ArticleElon Musk predicts World War III over AI
Elon Musk is predicting the cause of the third world war — and no, he’s not talking about one sparked by North Korea’s nuclear tests. He’s talking about artificial intelligence, as he often has lately....
View ArticleOn Topic: Tech news to know now
Here’s what’s going on in tech on Monday… –Elon Musk takes to Twitter to say that artificial intelligence (AI) carries “vastly more risk” than the threat from North Korea. —Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier...
View ArticleYouTube: AI a big help in fight against terror content
YouTube, which a few months ago lost advertisers because of the terrorism-related content on its platform, says AI is proving to be a big help. “Over 75 percent of the videos we’ve removed for violent...
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Elon Musk disses Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI
Alexa, order popcorn. It’s the battle of the billionaires: Elon Musk, who has warned repeatedly that AI may be our greatest existential threat, says Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of artificial...
View ArticleElon Musk to governors: AI software could replace you, too
Elon Musk offered a simple message for weary governors struggling with budget shortfalls, healthcare repeal and natural disasters: Beware of the robots. “There certainly will be job disruption. Because...
View ArticleGoogle funds robot-written news
I. Am. Not. A. Robot. But other articles to be published by a national news agency in Europe that just got a huge Google grant will be written by robots. The aim: to crank out up to 30,000 stories a...
View ArticleU.S. mulls restricting Chinese investments into artificial intelligence...
The United States is considering clamping down on Chinese investments into select Silicon Valley industries, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. With Chinese capital flooding into...
View ArticleNo Go: AlphaGo vs. human Go master match censored in China
It looks like it will take more than a friendly game of Go. With Google’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program back at it, making friends/enemies as it defeats humans in the ancient board game and...
View ArticleGoogle pushes into Apple’s turf to put its virtual assistant into iPhones ,...
“Hello, Siri, and goodbye.” Those words would be music to the ears of Google, which is poised to unveil an iPhone version of its “Assistant” virtual-assistant, according to a report published a day...
View ArticleDoes he like you? Could she not care less? This app decodes your crush’s texts
We’ve all gotten that text with the confusing ellipses or the ambiguous emjoi that leaves us wondering: What does it all mean? That’s where Crushh comes in — the app that uses artificial intelligence...
View ArticleGoogle’s parent Alphabet looks at ‘high-tech city’ for Canada
After decades of slumping back with a beer and relying on timber, hydroelectric power, mining and petroleum to keep its economy running, Canada has finally awoken to the need to jump on the innovation...
View ArticleElon Musk details vision to merge our brains with computers
If you can’t beat them, join them. As promised, Elon Musk has released more details about his newest company. San Francisco-based Neuralink aims to link human brains to computers in an answer to the...
View ArticleCan an app prevent a lovers’ quarrel before it happens?
Maybe they can call it the Don’t Throw a Fit Bit. Researchers want to create a system that uses wearable tech and artificial intelligence to try to detect arguments between couples before they happen....
View ArticleH-1B visa holders can now use S.F. startup’s AI-powered bot to switch jobs,...
One of the many, many criticisms levied against the controversial H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers is that the program makes indentured servants out of them. That’s because the visas are issued to...
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