Category: Artificial Intelligence
‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own
In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go … with no human help. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human […]
Google exec: Our society is in real jeopardy
(CNN)In November 2014, the Guardians of Peace — a group affiliated with the North Korean government — hacked Sony Pictures because the studio was planning to release “The Interview,” a movie they felt insulted their leader, Kim Jong Un. After the initial breach, the hackers threatened theaters that were planning to show the film. The […]
Glass Room by Mozilla & TTC in London
There’s a lot of high-brow, abstract talk about privacy and personal data. SEE ALSO: Moscow’s facial recognition CCTV network is the biggest example of surveillance society yet But when it comes to our personal experience with it, all we usually get is a long, boring, overlooked list of conditions that nobody reads before signing up […]
Intel handily beats analysts expectations as chips continue to shine
With numbers that would seem to put fears to rest that the world’s dominant chipmaker has lost a step to its competitors, Intel Corp. handily beat analyst expectations for the third quarter. “We executed well in the third quarter with strong results across the business, and we’re on track to a record year,” said Brian […]
Google’s ‘Pixel Buds’ may be the key to breaking the language barrier
Mandatory Credit: Photo by AP/REX/Shutterstock (9114955r) Google Pixel Buds are shown at a Google event at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco Google Showcase, San Francisco, USA – 04 Oct 2017 Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock Out of all the products Google launched at its big event this week, there’s one that should have Apple really worried. No, […]