The acquisition of DeepMind will add a few key players to Google’s growing ranks of AI experts
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Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry
More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won’t be able to tell that they’re actually conversing with software, not other humans.
The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse …
Why I Want The Watson Computer to (Help) Take Care of My Baby
I became a dad a few months ago and remember clearly how nerve-racking the birth of my child was. And even once the (thankfully healthy) kid got here, you spend a lot of time operating in the dark about what might be happening if something goes wrong. As great as doctors and nurses are, they’re parsing innumerable variables when it comes …
Google Looks to Program Regret and Hindsight into Computers
It could be argued that we, as humans, learn best from our past mistakes. It could also be argued that the only way to truly live life is to sprint everywhere as fast as you can with your tie knotted around your head like it’s midnight at an open-bar wedding, yelling, “On your left! LEFT!!! I’m not even required to wear a tie for work!” …
Jeopardy Computer Pits AI Skills Against Humanity
Meet Watson: a computer with artificial intelligence capable of understanding the nuances in human speech. Watson is so smart – and so knowledgeable about humanity – that it is going to take on the grand champions of Jeopardy, America’s favorite quiz show. But more on that later.
What Watson means in the greater scheme of things is …