It's hard to tell if there's anything left to invent. While the world is full of infinite possibilities, sometimes it seems that every n+1 of those possibilities has already been addressed. Airbnb for dogs? That's real.
Due to its incredible degree of complexity, the ancient Chinese game of Go has been viewed as the Mt Everest of artificial intelligence. But just as chess, checkers and Jeopardy fell before it, a Google-made computer program has finally bettered a to
Hiring a lawyer for a parking-ticket appeal is not only a headache, but it can also cost more than the ticket itself. But with the help of a robot made by British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, it costs nothing.
TN Note: This is not science fiction but is likely to fail anyway. Billionaires, governments, top scientists and engineers are all throwing money and energy into the science of immortality. Virtually every top university in the world now has a Conver
Archimedes pointed out that with a lever he could move the world.
He most likely would have been surprised to learn that a team of six microrobots, weighing just 3.5 ounces in total, could pull a car weighing 3,900 pounds.
A Google computer's stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.
After more than four hours of tight play and a rapid-fire endgame, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has won a second contest against grandmaster Lee Sedol, taking a two-games-to-none lead in their historic best-of-five m
After an extraordinarily close contest, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul's Four Seasons hotel.
Today, inside the towering glass and steel Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Google will put the future of artificial intelligence to the test.
With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a personal assistant or care provider for the elderly.
Welcome to robot nursery school," Pieter Abbeel says as he opens the door to the Robot Learning Lab on the seventh floor of a sleek new building on the northern edge of the UC-Berkeley campus.
In both an impressive display of innovative technology and a glimpse of a future in which humans could be redundant, Volvo has shown off its Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (ROAR) project.
In December 2013, Google bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that creates mind-blowing mobile research robots for the military. At the time, the company featured nine robots on its website.
Everyone has that one fact they tell people when they want to blow their minds. Some of the best mind-blowing facts come from scientists, and artificial-intelligence researchers have some amazing ones.
How very interesting it all is… the gamemakers are claiming dominion over our perceptions, our thoughts, our experiences, emotions, etc. Are we still operating within the bounds of reality?
In response to Humanoid Robots to Manufacture Planes, reader "XBE", a 37-year ex-Boeing employee, pinged me with a few comments on robots and trends in the number of people it takes to build a plane.
Scientist Wendel Wallach calls for ethical committees to monitor research
Yale University ethicist believes the machines should not go uncontrolled
Need to keep technology 'a good servant, not a dangerous master'