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The Mobile Internet Is Over. Baidu Goes All In on AI

The Mobile Internet Is Over. Baidu Goes All In on AI

On Dec. 6, 2016, thousands of translators filed into office buildings across mainland China to pore over brochures, letters, and technical manuals, all in foreign languages, painstakingly rendering their texts in Chinese characters. This marathon carried on

Trump’s Budget Is Awful if You’re a Worker, Great if You’re a Robot

Trump’s Budget Is Awful if You’re a Worker, Great if You’re a Robot

When the robots rise up, they won’t take your life. They’ll take your job, particularly those in fields primed for automation, like manufacturing, trucking, and customer service. Technologists, economists, and policymakers believe this future is all but

Solar’s Huge Potential, Robots Explain Themselves, and Edible Drones

Solar’s Huge Potential, Robots Explain Themselves, and Edible Drones

The most fascinating and important news in technology and innovation delivered straight to your inbox, every day. Corporal Robot, Explain Yourself! The U.S. military doesn’t want to blindly trust any old algorithm. Rightly so, because the use of robots in

Good Bots vs. Bad Bots: How to Tell the Difference

Good Bots vs. Bad Bots: How to Tell the Difference

Navigating the web these days can make a person feel like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. There’s so much to be seen here that -- until somewhat recently -- was fairly unheard of. And we don’t know what’s good or bad. It’s as if we’re constantly

ROBOPOCALYPSE: The Coming Leftist Panic on The Robot Economy - Breitbart

ROBOPOCALYPSE: The Coming Leftist Panic on The Robot Economy - Breitbart

Once used by South Park to mock conservative critics of mass immigration, these lines may soon be applied to the left, as a new progressive panic over the robot economy now appears to be well underway. Fears over the rise of the robots have existed for

Machine learning and data are fueling a new kind of car, brought to you by Intel

Machine learning and data are fueling a new kind of car, brought to you by Intel

Here’s why Intel just offered $15.3 billion for Mobileye, an Israeli company that specializes in machine vision and learning for cars. The automobile is being dismantled, reimagined, and rebuilt in Silicon Valley. Intel’s proposed $15.3 billion

DARPA is funding projects that will try to open up AI’s black boxes

DARPA is funding projects that will try to open up AI’s black boxes

Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous systems. But the U.S. military wants to make sure that this doesn’t lead to blindly

Did artificial intelligence deny you credit?

Did artificial intelligence deny you credit?

People who apply for a loan from a bank or credit card company, and are turned down, are owed an explanation of why that happened. It’s a good idea – because it can help teach people how to repair their damaged credit – and it’s a federal law, the

Adobe Is Building An AI To Automate Web Design. Should You Worry?

Adobe Is Building An AI To Automate Web Design. Should You Worry?

Adobe Is Building An AI To Automate Web Design. Should You Worry? An experimental Adobe project brings machine learning and artificial intelligence to the graphic and web design worlds. That might not be a bad thing. [Images: ArthurHidden/iStock, Adobe] Neal