Autodesk’s AVA is built to be a fount of empathy, no matter how mean a customer gets.
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Building A.I. that can build A.I.
Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts.
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The rise of AI is sparking an international arms race
“Artificial intelligence is the future not only of Russia but of all of mankind … Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
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Is Technology about to decimate white-collar work?
Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.
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Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot (VIDEO)
Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The lucky machine is Sophia the Humanoid, who was designed to look like Audrey Hepburn.
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This AI blockchain could be the most disruptive tech of the year
Blockchain technology is being used to distribute the financial market, rather than keep it in the control of a few major companies. Now, a startup wants to do the same for artificial intelligence.
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Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk
These days, a radiologist at UCSF will go through anywhere from 20 to 100 scans a day, and each scan can have thousands of images to review.
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Why we need robots to be able to forget – just like us
We all know what it’s like to forget something. A loved one’s birthday. A childhood memory. Even people capable of extraordinary memory feats – say, memorizing the order of a deck of cards in less than 20 seconds – will still forget where they left their keys. People, it seems, are never in complete control of their memories.
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Radical discovery means computers will soon sniff out explosives
Arusha — Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life’s puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again.
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A physicist on why AI safety is ‘the most important conversation of our time’
Should we be worried about the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence?
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Amazon has designed an AI fashion designer
The retail giant is taking a characteristically algorithmic approach to fashion.
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Artificial intelligence will create new kinds of work
When the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, their skills turned out to be in higher demand than before: somebody had to illustrate the Growing number of books.
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