No Human Needed: Iron Ox Could Grow 30 Times More Produce Than Regular Farms
Iron Ox isn’t your average AI development or robotics company. Rather than shove its technology down your throat, it’d prefer for you to snack on some lettuce. But while Brandon Alexander, the company’s CEO and co-founder, says, “We are a farm and will always be a farm,” it isn’t stopping the firm from advancing agriculture […]
AI Can Finally Explain Its Thought Process (Sort Of)
Artificial intelligence (AI) that can comprehend and explain its thoughts is a “holy grail” in the field — one that the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is dedicating $2 billion to over the next five years towards. Now, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says they’ve accomplished the […]
DARPA to Invest $2 Billion in AI and Machine Learning Over Next 5 Years
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has always been focused on accelerating the progress of technologies with profound potential. So it’s no surprise that it’s interested in artificial intelligence (AI). Last week, the ambitious experimental arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced it would be investing $2 billion in AI and machine learning […]
China Is Building AI-Powered Submarines
Who said all the hot artificial intelligence (AI) innovation is being developed in San Francisco and other U.S. tech hubs? China has built AI-powered submarines — and plans to launch them in hotly-contested surrounding seas by 2020. Many Questions, Few Answers Many of the details surrounding these submarines are shrouded in secrecy. Per the South […]
Startup That Uses Humans to Train AI Just Nabbed $18M in Investments
Do you think artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming too autonomous and independent of humans? Well, think again! Scale is a startup that utilizes a team of contractors to train AI systems by categorizing visual data. It’s making big waves in AI development — in fact, it just raised an additional $18 million in investments. Not […]
DARPA Is Funding Research to Find out Exactly What AI Is Thinking
When you were in high school, did you have to show your work in math class to get credit? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants artificial intelligence (AI) to do the same. Recently, it announced the Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program, an initiative focused on fostering AI development that can understand and explain how it […]
DeepMind Founders and Other AI Leaders Pledge to Not Develop Lethal Weapon Systems
A few days ago, London-based developer DeepMind (an Alphabet company) and thousands of other tech leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) signed a pledge vowing to never develop any “lethal autonomous weapon.” The group, which included Elon Musk, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, and AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, wrote in their letter that “We […]
Can We Avoid Flaws in Machine Learning?
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues evolving, it goes without saying that it is going to need tweaks and patches along the way. Unfortunately, as several tech titans recently discovered, their AI systems have some serious problems revolving around gender and race. Bias Is Moving Us Backwards Research shows that language-processing AI can show signs of […]
Can You Beat AI in an Argument?
It wasn’t long ago that Google’s Duplex made headlines for an unsettling demonstration in which its AI tricked an innocent human into thinking that it was human as well. Not to be one-upped, IBM has revealed an AI capable of arguing — and maybe even sometimes winning against humans. Holding Its Own Headquartered an hour […]
An Inside Look at Amazon’s Ambitions to Make Alexa Sound Human
Amazon’s Alexa is ahead of its competitors, but it’s got a long way to go in making Alexa sound and “act” more human. Improving Alexa’s ability to quip a funny response or having her hold an actual conversation are Amazon’s top priorities right now with their best-selling artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled voice assistant. The Alexa Prize […]