A former Google engineer fired by the company last year after claiming the company had developed a sentient artificial intelligence (AI) now believes Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot may have also gained sentience. Lemoine gained prominence last June when he went to the press to warn that Google’s language model program, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has gained sentience. He was... 

The Prime Minister of Romania revealed he’s using artificial intelligence to advise his administration in what may be the first example of a nation’s government using AI to shape policies. Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca introduced this week an AI bot named Ion who has a “deep voice” and will now be advising his political colleagues. The bot is physically seen on a “mirror-like” screen that... 

The technology is not fully there yet, but it is moving rapidly in the direction of artificial intelligence (AI) robots one day being able to replace all human doctors and completely take over medicine. Towards this end, researchers looked at Google’s AI chatbot, which they asked a series of common medical questions. They found that the program answered 92.6 percent of questions correctly, this... 

Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter might be on hold for now after the world’s richest man came to the conclusion that artificial intelligence (AI) bots posing as human users account for the vast majority of users on the platform. Based on his assessment, Musk alleges that up to 90 percent of Twitter’s entire user base is fake. This situation has obvious implications for the valuation of the company.... 

The Department of Defense is trying to create an artificial intelligence program that can make decisions regarding life or death on the battlefield. The new program, called In The Moment, is being led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the innovation arm of the military. Its goal is to let an AI program make the difficult decisions that military strategists are forced to grapple... 

Low interest rates, rising labor costs and disrupted supply chains are setting up “a huge surge in spending on robotics and artificial intelligence,” says Global X, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). According to the firm’s Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Strategy Jay Jacobs, the robotics industry could reach a “key inflection point” in the coming... 

Facebook has patted itself on the back for nuking almost all “hate speech” that supposedly violated its rules. But not only was most content deleted before anyone could flag it, users weren’t even allowed to appeal most deletions. Unveiling its Community Standards Enforcement Report for the fourth quarter of 2020 on Thursday, Facebook bragged that its expanded use of artificial intelligence... 

Authorities in China have begun using artificial intelligence to target groups of residents for arrest and detention. According to a report by the Daily Wire, a new trove of highly classified leaked documents from the Chinese communist government reveals how Beijing relies on algorithms to operate their concentration camps where they reportedly have millions of Muslims and other minorities detained: The... 

A paper from computer scientists from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found that machines were more likely to flag tweets from black people than white people as offensive: It all boils down to the subtle differences in language. African-American English (AAE), often spoken in urban communities, is peppered with racial slang... 

The former chief executive of Google has been selected to lead America’s National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Eric Schmidt will provide his expertise on AI issues pertaining to national security, according to former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, who will also serve as the vice chair of the commission. “Artificial intelligence will have an enormous impact on our future... 

Google Home, Amazon Echo and Apple Siri are all hiding Jesus Christ away from you. Despite being Christmas hot gifts they don’t even know who Jesus is. In case you forgot, Christmas is not about some fat man dressed in red (Santa Claus) giving gifts to children but its about the birth of Lord Jesus Christ, the one true Son of God who came down on Earth and lived a simple life as a normal human... 

An AI system tasked with reconstructing aerial images from street maps has ‘learned’ how to ‘cheat’ at its task, according to a 2017 report which recently caught public attention. The system, called CycleGAN, was doing so well that it made its designers suspicious, and they later found that it was hiding data it would later use to reconstruct an image. But that doesn’t necessarily suggest... 

WHAT THE ACTUAL F…??? Is the world going nuts? How can such an idea even cross their minds? Haven’t they watched the Terminator? The Matrix? And all those evil AI movies? What those irons start to revolt against us humans? The Russians now wanna upgrade their top weapons such as S-400 and S1 Panzer with Artificial Intelligence. What’s next upgrading Nukes with AI? What if the AI... 

On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a new advancement in artificial intelligence technology: a voice assistant that sounds just like you and me. At the annual Google I/O conference for developers taking place this week, Pichai introduced Google Duplex, an artificial intelligence technology that can make phone calls on your behalf with human-like cadence. ​According to Google, Duplex is... 

The clock is ticking for the world of science to take the necessary steps to protect mankind from the deleterious effects of artificial intelligence, which is increasing by leaps and bounds. As someone who is old enough to remember a world without the internet and smartphones, I am also young enough to wonder where the human race is heading as computers ‘evolve’ into the unchartered territory...