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    Artificial Intelligence


    Wearable AI that can detect the tone of a conversation
    It’s a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions like Asperger’s, this can make social situations extremely stressf...
    01 February 2017, by

    Building character AI through machine learning
    Modern character AI could be better. I’m unaware of any NPCs or electronic toy characters that can sustain an illusion of life over more than an hour. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, a...
    01 February 2017, by

    Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
    On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists, leg...
    27 January 2017, by

    The infrastructure of life part 1: Safety
    Part 1: Autonomous Systems and Safety We all rely on machines. All aspects of modern life, from transport to energy, work to welfare, play to politics depend on a complex infrastructure of physical...
    26 January 2017, by

    Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum
    The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...
    20 January 2017, by

    What is machine learning?
    In this fascinating animation from Oxford Sparks, we take a look at how statistics and computer science can be used to make machines that learn for themselves, without being explicitly programmed....
    16 January 2017, by



    Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
    We're beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer. But how and when will machines be abl...
    11 January 2017, by

    MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance
    The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...
    10 January 2017, by

    Ethically Aligned Design
    Having been involved in roboethics for some years, I was delighted when the IEEE launched its initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, early this year. Especially so because ...
    27 December 2016, by

    White House report: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the economy
    The White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform the US economy over the coming years and decades....
    22 December 2016, by

    Learning words from pictures
    Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...
    16 December 2016, by

    How do we regulate robo-morality?
    In April 2016, British Standards Institution (BSI) published the world’s first ethical standard for the design, production, sale, and usage of social robots. “BS 8611: 2016 Robots and robotic devi...
    15 December 2016, by

    How the brain recognizes faces
    MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology that previous models ha...
    01 December 2016, by

    Commerce announces first artificial intelligence hearing today, livestream available
    U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness will convene a hearing today, 30 November, at 2:30 p.m. EST on “The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence....
    30 November 2016, by

    Understanding the four types of AI, from reactive robots to self-aware beings
    The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, ...
    30 November 2016, by

    Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
    Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain che...
    11 November 2016, by

    Robotics tutor for primary school children
    By: Ian Salter The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience...
    04 November 2016, by

    Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
    In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
    03 November 2016, by

    Making computers explain themselves
    In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...
    28 October 2016, by

    Why watching Westworld’s robots should make us question ourselves
    For a sci-fi fan like me, fascinated by the nature of human intelligence and the possibility of building life-like robots, it’s always interesting to find a new angle on these questions. As a re-ima...
    21 October 2016, by

    Prepping a robot for its journey to Mars
    Sarah Hensley is preparing an astronaut named Valkyrie for a mission to Mars. It is 6 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, and is equipped with an extended chest cavity that makes it look distinctly female. ...
    21 October 2016, by

    President Obama discusses artificial intelligence with Media Lab Director Joi Ito
    When President Barack Obama agreed to guest-edit the November issue of WIRED, he selected MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito for an exchange of ideas about artificial intelligence (AI). Their recent inter...
    17 October 2016, by

    White House releases reports focusing on opportunities and challenges of AI
    While the future of artificial intelligence is probably going to be driven by Silicon Valley, the folks in Washington DC want their say about how it will work, too. In two reports, the White House ...
    14 October 2016, by

    What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has already transformed our lives — from the autonomous cars on the roads to the robotic vacuums and smart thermostats in our homes. Over the next 15 years, AI technolog...
    16 September 2016, by and

    Tune in: Economist holding Facebook Live Q&A about AI and the future of work
    How will artificial intelligence change the world of work? The Economist is holding a Facebook Live Q&A with their Deputy Editor on Tuesday, September 13, 4pm London time. You can watch, listen, ...
    13 September 2016, by

    Taking measure of artificial intelligence and the Turing Test
    As far as party games go, the Imitation Game is a pretty clever and fairly entertaining one. A man and a women answer questions as if they were the other, trying to fool party guests into guessing the...
    31 August 2016, by

    Artificial intelligence expedites breast cancer risk prediction
    Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that reliably interprets mammograms, assisting doctors with a quick and accurate prediction of breast cancer risk. The AI computer s...
    30 August 2016, by

    How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human
    Cooperation is one of the hallmarks of being human. We are extremely social compared to other species. On a regular basis, we all enter into helping others in small but important ways, whether it be l...
    26 August 2016, by

    Artificial intelligence could transform healthcare, but we need to accept it first
    Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a woman’s life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unrespo...
    19 August 2016, by

    How science can help us make AI more trustworthy
    Stories about racist Twitter accounts and crashing self-driving cars can make us think that artificial intelligence (AI) is a work in progress. But while these headline-grabbing mistakes reveal the fr...
    22 July 2016, by

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