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How do you connect multiple robots into a single hive mind? Yours truly has been trying to come up with a way to do exactly that.
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Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
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Watson can easily win a trivia contest, but it needs to play anyway to learn how to talk to humans.
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Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.
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While Singularitarians are focused on creating a friendly AI, the first real world artificial intelligence systems are likely to be as unfriendly as possible by design...
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Before you let IBM sell you a computer to help lead your company, consider the downsides of outsourcing your strategy to a machine learning algorithm.
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Two IBM project leaders are arguing about the results of the Blue Matter experiments. The critics seem to have the upper hand, scientifically speaking.