Artificial Intelligence

Here are 3 times Amazon Alexa gave its human masters the heebie-jeebies

Amazon Alexa is smart, funny and obedient, but the digital AI assistant can go rogue sometimes as these instances are proof of it. Read on to find out more about Alexa's scary incidents.

Jun 27, 2018

'Ok Google' before every command is now a thing of past

Google just made our lives easier while communicating with Google Assistant on its Home smart speaker series by eliminating a major obstacle.

Jun 22, 2018

Baidu joins AV race with driverless car test in China

The company for the first time tested its two self-driving cars on an expressway in Tianjin City.

Jun 22, 2018

Mind control: Robots can be controlled via brainwaves, muscle gestures by humans now

Researchers want to create a way for humans to interact with machines in a natural and intuitive manner as it learns to read and understand the controller's mind and physical actions.

Jun 21, 2018

Silicon brain? New IBM circuitry to turbocharge AI in coming years

IBM has created a type of circuitry for AI that works like a human brain – a physical neural network that consumes only 1 percent the energy that normal computers do.

Jun 14, 2018

MIT scientists create world's first 'psychopath' AI and it's really spooky

Scientists fed a machine-learning algorithm violent and death images from Reddit, what came to be was an AI that was both unsettling and horrific.

Jun 7, 2018

Google's dramatic growth in smart speaker market demands Amazon's undivided attention

The smart speaker space may be growing slowly, but it's no longer an Amazon monopoly as players like Google, Apple, Alibaba and Xiaomi are making it difficult for the Echo-maker.

May 19, 2018

Artificial intelligence in search of alien intelligence, SETI sets right foot forward

Alien intelligence need not be similar enough to human intelligence for it to exist. Considering the fact that there are forms of intelligence right here on Earth that humans are yet to identify, SETI wants to use AI to help discover alien life.

May 13, 2018

Google's AI-based Emoji Scavenger Hunt game is fun, super interactive: here's how

The Artificial Intelligence-based game asks users to locate and point the camera at real world objects that match an emoji.

May 7, 2018

Huawei working on AI which could develop emotional connections with humans

The Chinese tech major wants to make its digital assistant emotionally intelligent to provide emotional interaction with humans, just like in sci-fi movies.

Apr 21, 2018

AI taught to process and recognize sound just like humans

In their attempt to model the human brain, scientists just taught an AI to process and identify sounds like a human.

Apr 20, 2018

AI-controlled drone tanks: China converts junk into potent battle winners

Cold war era Type 59 battle tanks will get robotic operators with the potential for AI-based control as a future upgrade.

Mar 23, 2018

Fatal crash video suggests Uber's self-driving car lacks proper radar system

Elaine Herzberg was crossing the street with a bicycle on her side when she was hit by Uber's self-driving car. The car also had a backup driver on board.

Mar 22, 2018

Google's AI can help you find alien worlds using NASA data

Alien worlds and exoplanets can be found in Kepler data using Google's open-source AI now available for download.

Mar 14, 2018

AI a bigger threat to civilization than nuclear weapons, says Elon Musk

The technology entrepreneur questioned why no public body had been set up to oversee research into AI.

Mar 12, 2018