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Thinking About How Us Meatbots actually Work Could Deliver AI That’s More Useful and Fair

Here are the secrets to useful AI, according to designers. Secrets to good AI: Designers at Google spent three years helping build AI for the firm’s Clips wearable camera, and they published a blog post about what they learned. They say the best [...]

Year of the Dog: Sony Unleashes ‘Intelligent’ Robot Pet

As Japan celebrates the year of the dog, electronics giant Sony on Thursday unleashed its new robot canine companion, packed with artificial intelligence and internet connectivity. The sleek ivory-white puppy-sized “aibo” robot shook its [...]

Restrepo-Schild and her team developed a two-layered artificial retina they say works much like the real thing (Credit: peshkova/Depositphotos)

AI Can Be Made Legally Accountable for Its Decisions

Computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars say AI systems should be able to explain their decisions without revealing all their secrets. By Emerging Technology from the arXiv Artificial intelligence is set to play a significantly [...]

China’s AI Awakening 中国人工智能的崛起

The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it. Will Knight reports: On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one-on-one poker against a [...]

AI Enlisted to Help Prevent Traffic Jams

The transport ministry will this autumn start a pilot project that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to alleviate traffic congestion in tourist hotspots. The project will use traffic volume data collected through a network of cameras installed on [...]

A still from the music video for the new single "Break Free" that features music entirely composed and produced by an artificial intelligence system (Credit: Taryn Southern / Amper)

AI-Generated Pop Song Puts Human Composers on Notice

Rich Haridy reports: At the rate AI-generated music is progressing, it could be old-fashioned to manually compose songs in as little as a decade. The latest step forward comes with the release of “Break Free,” the first single from the [...]

The Yomiuri Shimbun An emotion visualization system detects body tremors captured on camera and displays danger levels as colors and numerical values at the headquarters of ALSOK in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on July 12.

TOKYO 1964-2020: AI Set to Keep a Watchful Eye Out for Terrorism

This is the fourth installment of a series that uses the Olympics to take a fresh look at the past and future of the nation. The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Advanced technologies that use artificial intelligence, or AI, are likely to be introduced to [...]

Elon Musk at the National Governors Association meeting in Providence, R.I., on Saturday. Mr. Musk warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence and said the high price of Tesla shares reflects optimism for the company’s future. Photo: brian snyder/Reuters

Elon Musk Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario for AI Threat

Powerful technology will threaten all human jobs, could even spark a war, Tesla CEO says. Tim Higgins writes: Elon Musk warned a gathering of U.S. governors that they need to be concerned about the potential dangers from the rise of artificial [...]

Apple’s HomePod Puts Siri in a Speaker

Pierce reports: It’s hard not to watch Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant invade millions of living rooms and not feel like Apple blew an opportunity. Almost six years after Apple announced Siri as a feature on the iPhone 4S, Siri’s [...]

Apple Announces HomePod, a Smart Home Audio Speaker

Janko Roettgers reports: Apple is taking on Amazon Echo and Google Home: The company announced a new voice-controlled speaker during its WWDC developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Monday. Dubbed HomePod, the new speaker features voice control [...]

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. Will Knight writes: In 2015, a research group at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York was inspired to apply deep learning to the hospital’s vast database [...]

[VIDEO] The Robot Will See You Now: AI and Your Health Care

Caring Cyborgs: Robots may be good at following instructions, but could they also be our companions and caregivers? Feng Zengkun writes: Head to Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and you might be able to spot Nadine, a cyberhuman [...]

Google chairman Eric Schmidt in Wuzhen. Noah Sheldon for WIRED

Google Is Already Late to China’s AI Revolution

Cade Metz writes: Sitting on a stage in Wuzhen, China, a historic city up the river from Shanghai, Google chairman Eric Schmidt described what he called “the age of intelligence.” But he wasn’t talking about human intelligence. He meant [...]

Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance

Trucking will be computerized long before surgery, computer scientists say. Emerging Technology from the arXiv Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do [...]