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Theresa May Announced Ethical Oversight of AI

Theresa May Announced Ethical Oversight of AI

UK announces plans for the ethical oversight of AI as it is increasingly used to drive cars, diagnose patients and even to help determine prison sentences.

China Needs to Listen to its Researchers to Become a Scientific Superpower

China Needs to Listen to its Researchers to Become a Scientific Superpower

The country’s research could soon dominate the world stage, but pitfalls lie in wait.

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

World's First AI-Citizen Sophia is Calling for Women's Rights

The Hanson Robotics headline maker is now pushing for women's rights in a country that granted her more rights than it grants most human females.

Meet Your New Boss: An Algorithm

Meet Your New Boss: An Algorithm

Traditional employers like General Electric are using artificial intelligence and other elements of the work-on-demand business model to manage traditional full-time workforces.

Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome

Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome

AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.

The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students

The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students

A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.

Self-Taught AI Is Best Yet at Strategy Game Go

Self-Taught AI Is Best Yet at Strategy Game Go

Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.

Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead

Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead

John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.

AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick

AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick

An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?

AI Research Is in Desperate Need of an Ethical Watchdog

AI Research Is in Desperate Need of an Ethical Watchdog

More social scientists are using AI intending to solve society’s ills, but they don’t have clear ethical guidelines to prevent them from accidentally harming people.

Microsoft, Google and Baidu Team up with Paul Allen's AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu Team up with Paul Allen's AI2 on Open Academic Search

Microsoft, Google and Baidu are joining forces in Open Academic Search, an initiative led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

AI, Robotics, And The Future Of Precision Agriculture

AI, Robotics, And The Future Of Precision Agriculture

From analyzing millions of satellite images to finding healthy strains of plant microbiome, these startups have raised over $500M to bring AI and robotics to agriculture.

AI Zooms in on Highly Influential Citations

AI Zooms in on Highly Influential Citations

Semantic Scholar is the first scientific engine to automatically identify the subset of a paper's citations in which the paper had a strong impact on the citing work.

AI Is Changing How We Do Science. Get a Glimpse

AI Is Changing How We Do Science. Get a Glimpse

AI systems spot new particles, see galaxies, sense the public mood from social media.