Google CEO talks AI-first world — where will the hardware go?
Quick, what’s the future of computing? If you said mobile, you just flunked Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s test. “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to...
View ArticleGoogle feeding romance novels to its artificial intelligence systems
Who needs love when you have a chat bot talking dirty and oozing eternal devotion? To give its artificial intelligence systems the ability to speak conversationally, Google is feeding one of them a...
View ArticleGoogle will let you turn yourself into a bot, Ray Kurzweil says
The future, apparently, will be ruled by imaginary friends — “chat bots” that lack physical form but can do everything from ordering the perfect pair of shoes to comforting us in times of trial. We...
View ArticleEric Schmidt fears no robot, but Google eyes ‘big red button’ to stop them
Google’s parent company Alphabet is a many-headed beast. There’s Google, of course, and there’s Fiber ultra-fast internet, and Calico for eternal life, and Google X with its wild “moonshot” projects,...
View ArticleTwitter buys Magic Pony to help with its efforts in live and video tweets
Twitter has bought an artificial intelligence startup to bolster its quest to improve live tweets and video technology on the social network site, the company said on its blog Monday. San...
View ArticleCan Elon Musk make a robot maid a reality? That’s the plan
Rockets, electric cars, inhabiting Mars. Those are some of the well-known goals and accomplishments of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Now, add Rosie to the mix. You do remember Rosie the robot maid...
View ArticleBiz Break: Facebook, Alphabet among tech leaders working on ethical A.I....
Top Of The Order: Playing Nice: It’s safe to say that there is a lot of competition among the biggest names in the tech sector. That’s no surprise. For example, when you have the likes of Facebook...
View ArticleGoogle announces AI-powered Translate that ‘approaches’ the skill of humans
Google announced Tuesday it’s using a new automated translation system powered by artificial intelligence that can improve translation by up to 87 percent over its existing Translate system. “Our…...
View ArticleSamsung wants its own personal assistant, acquires team that created Siri
The world of virtual personal assistants is getting crowded. There are those that live in your phone — Apple has Siri and Google unveiled its new Google Assistant this week. There are standalone models...
View ArticleIron Man volunteers to be voice of Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis
In case Mark Zuckerberg had any lingering doubts about whether he’s truly made it, Iron Man surely has put them to rest. When the Facebook CEO asked for suggestions Thursday about who should be the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg talks Jarvis, the AI assistant he built over the past year
Just like he said he would, Mark Zuckerberg has built an AI assistant for his home, like the helpful/soothing/creepy Jarvis in “The Iron Man.” And the Facebook CEO is pleased to report that he has “had...
View ArticleHelping Mr. Zuckerberg: Morgan Freeman is voice of Jarvis
Is it too late for Oscar nominations? Mark Zuckerberg’s video about his AI home assistant is out, and the Facebook CEO shows off acting chops that just might be award-worthy. OK, so maybe not the...
View ArticleParking ticket-fighting robot DoNotPay comes to San Francisco
Nothing sours a good mood faster than returning to your car only to see a parking ticket fluttering under your windshield wiper. Maybe you didn’t see the “no parking during street sweeping” sign. Maybe...
View ArticleFord snaps up artificial-intelligence startup Argo
The gold rush for autonomous vehicle technology is in full surge. Ford is making a $1 billion bet on artificial intelligence to produce its first driverless vehicle by 2021. The automaker announced...
View ArticleSamsung aims at Siri, Alexa with Bixby
Move over, Siri and Alexa, and make room for Bixby. That’s the name of Samsung’s virtual assistant, which will debut next week as a key feature of the new Galaxy S8 phone. The Korean company has big...
View ArticleTreasury Secretary Mnuchin draws one-word response from Mark Cuban after...
Maybe U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is a robot. It’s hard to imagine another explanation, given his statement that the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on jobs is not on his...
View ArticleElon Musk’s new venture — our brains
Not quite content with infiltrating garages, roofs and lunar orbit, Elon Musk has set his sights on another target — the brain. The visionary billionaire will play a lead role in an...
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...
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 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...
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