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Top Bank of England economist warns “large swaths” of workers will lose jobs to AI

Aug 21, 2018

Andy Haldane, chief economist of the Bank of England told BBC News this week that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to leave “large swaths” of workers "technologically unemployed" as their jobs...

Elon Musk’s OpenAI achieves milestones in AI learning and dexterity

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Jul 30, 2018

Innovation, Science

Elon Musk’s nonprofit AI research group, OpenAI, has broken new ground in teaching a robot hand to manipulate objects, according to The Verge. For one, the researchers accomplished their goal of having the h...

AI research sheds light on how our brains navigate space

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May 20, 2018

Innovation, Science

An artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, in collaboration with researchers, is helping to shed light on how mammals such as humans navigate their environment, according to a report from S...

Scientists call for a collaborative AI research institute in Europe

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Apr 25, 2018

Innovation, Science, World

An open letter from top European scientists calls for a major artificial intelligence research institute to compete with the US and China, where many of the world’s top AI companies are based. Dubbed the Europe...

Company debuts house cleaning robot with machine learning capabilities

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Jan 12, 2018

Innovation, Science

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Aeolus Robotics presented their latest development – a child-sized robot that can perform a number of household cleaning tasks without any help from huma...

Google’s machine learning AI discovers two new planets in NASA’s Kepler telescope data

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Dec 18, 2017

Business, Innovation, Science

NASA and Google announced Thursday that a collaboration using advanced computer analysis of existing data has discovered two new planets in distant star systems, one of which is part of the first star system fo...

Facebook implements AI screening for suicide risks among users

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Nov 27, 2017

Business, Health, Science

Facebook announced Monday that it will begin using artificial intelligence to address broadcasted suicide risks on its social network, according to the Washington Post. The AI tool will review posts for suicide...

Research aims to correct mistakes and biases in AI machine learning

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Oct 27, 2017

Innovation, Science

A project launched by researchers at Columbia and Lehigh Universities has yielded effective error-correction processes, intended to correct mistakes and biases in Artificial Intelligence deep learning networks....

Elon Musk warns governors that AI threats are “the biggest risk that we face as a civilization”

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Jul 21, 2017

Innovation, Policy, Science

Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a warning to a gathering of US governors on Saturday, cautioning that the rise of artificial intelligence could lead to dangers, calling for a regulatory body specifically to monitor ...

New software helps robots learn tasks through simple, one-time demonstrations

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May 11, 2017

Innovation, Science

A new software system, called C-LEARN, allows humans to teach robots new tasks through simple demonstrations instead of through programming. Such a technique could make it much more practical to use robots for ...

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