Artificial intelligence made enormous strides in 2016, so it is fitting that one of the year’s hit TV shows was an exploration of what it means for machines to gain consciousness. But how close are…...
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Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI...
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Officials will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a process that officials say will make more racially equitable decisions. (more…)
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Google's artificial intelligence DeepMind, became famous by beating the South Korean, professional GO player Lee Sedol. Lee Sedol played a historic five game match against Google DeepMind's AlphaGo computer program in March 2016. AlphaGo won the match ... (more…)
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