AI

  • How to avoid AI dystopia

    Policy expert argues that it’s not the programs that are flawed.

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been lauded as the holy grail of human innovation, a potential solution for human pr...

    AI September 13, 2018

  • Your day-to-day reality will soon be augmented

    The difference between material and virtual will be blurred.

    The world’s largest annual consumer technology show — CES 2018 in Las Vegas — ended on Friday and some of the most ex...

    AI January 13, 2018

  • The winters of AI’s discontent

    The history of AI has been neither smooth nor uninterrupted.

    The history of artificial intelligence (AI) has been characterised by a chronic failure to appreciate just how hard m...

    AI December 11, 2017

  • Neurotech may destroy your privacy and rights

    Calls for protection against brain-computer interfaces.

    At the 2016 Code Conference, held last June in Rancho Palos Verdes in California, US, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon M...

    Robotics November 8, 2017

  • Future translation is part human, part machine

    Computer translation may never replace a human translator.

    [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="754"] Credit: Shutterstock[/caption] Imagine a world where everyone can perfe...

    AI July 11, 2017
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