Artificial intelligence is in danger of becoming too male, says a new study
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying tumours in medical scans better than human radiologists, and increasing...
Hype and hysteria around AI could set it back by decades
Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI...
People who spread deepfakes believe their lies contain deeper truths
The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO,...
When will voice assistants understand what we are saying? Probably quite long.
Imagine a world in which Siri always understands you, Google Translate works perfectly, and the two of them create something akin to a Doctor...
A self-taught AI is beating humans in a multiplayer game for the first time
Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of...