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Race on to find proven ways to help people live longer, healthier lives.

In terms of the number and scale of its success stories, the 2010s have a good claim for being the greatest 10 years in the history of artificial intelligence. What were the biggest advances in A.I. over the past decade? Digital Trends takes a trip down recent memory lane.

Sending construction robots into outer space will help pave the way for human exploration, but there are some real challenges that lie ahead.

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley.

All evidence points to the fact that the singularity is coming (regardless of which futurist you believe).

But what difference does it make? We are talking about a difference of just 15 years. The real question is, is the singularity actually on its way?

At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I spoke with Jürgen Schmidhuber, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AI company NNAISENSE, Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, and heralded by some as the “father of artificial intelligence” to find out.

Continue reading “The ‘Father of Artificial Intelligence’ Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away” »

We’re one step closer to channeling our inner Harry Potters.

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

This is the fourth instalment in a four-part series examining the brewing US-China war over the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technology.

China has had success with AI and surveillance, but when it comes to social issues such as education, health care and agriculture, there is still a ways to go.

Continue reading “China dreams of becoming an AI utopia – here’s the reality” »

So, what’s it mean for us, the humans?