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Artificial Intelligence

Arts, Culture & Media
How AI is helping to recreate childhood memories
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Fingers on a keyboard
Science & Technology
The people powering AI decisions
Group of people stand around a pianist in an auditorium
How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony
Artist Daniel Voshart's machine learning-assisted images of Roman emperors Augustus, left, and Maximinus Thrax, right.
Arts
This artist used machine learning to create realistic portraits of Roman emperors
S3 E7 (The Wrong Apocalypse) – Future Wars
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Workers wash and dry chopped lettuce at a Taylor Farms processing plant in Salinas, California on September 10, 2019. In recent years, the company has started incorporating automation in its facility.
Global Nation Education
How immigrant workers are preparing for automation in agriculture
About 15,000 robots named “Pepper” are used in Japanese and European banks, fast service restaurants, and healthcare settings. Pepper is now in US bank branches too — HSBC has them in select locations to help answer basic customer questions.
Science & Technology
Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?
youtube logo reflected in an eyeball
Internet
Detecting ‘deepfakes’ by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them
A man, left, takes a photo of a colorful robot that is also working as waitstaff in a restaurant.
Technology
A new book suggests AI and robots will take jobs — but make the world better
senior training
Technology
How to build a countrywide AI strategy? Finland is turning its seniors into evangelists.
Arts, Culture & Media
Voyager
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Rodney Brooks
Arts, Culture & Media
ArtBots
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Prognosticator of Pop
Arts, Culture & Media
Voyager
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Rodney Brooks
Arts, Culture & Media
The Fembot Factor
Arts, Culture & Media
“Ex Machina” Director Alex Garland Says, Love Your Robot
Arts, Culture & Media
The Computer As Artist
Arts, Culture & Media
Smart Programs Read Shakespeare
Kriti Sharma
Culture
Meet Pegg, a gender-neutral robot assistant
Belgian Ian Frejean, 11, walks with "Zora" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to entertain patients and to support care providers, at AZ Damiaan hospital in Ostend, Belgium June 16, 2016.
Technology
What can AI learn from non-Western philosophies?
Microsoft recently announced a commitment of $50 million and five years to its "AI for Earth" program.
Technology
Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in managing and protecting planet’s natural resources
Alex Bukasa, a Congolese asylum-seeker and former journalist, poses in front of the White House.
Technology
My voice is my passport — verify me
Captcha
Technology
CAPTCHAs are supposed to separate humans from robots online, but now AI can crack them
Elder Care robot
Technology
Will humans have the wisdom to manage artificial intelligence effectively?
Keyboard
Jobs
Human moderators do the dirty work of keeping disturbing content off the internet
Computer components.
Science
Should artificial intelligence be used in science publishing?
A robot helper at work.
Business
Almost half of what we do at work could be automated by 2055
Mary Poppins
Technology
Researchers aim to make digital assistants like Siri less annoying
AlphaGo on the move in the Google DeepMind challenge, Seoul, South Korea.
Technology
A computer may have just become the best Go player out there
Robot with a face
Business
Could technology replace you at work and put wealth in the hands of the few?
Transcendence film photo
Environment
Scientists are starting to worry about ‘conscious’ machines, as in the movie ‘Transcendence’
Environment
Humanoid robot shows off advances in technology, dances to Gangnam Style
Environment
“Terminator Salvation” and our romance with robots
Understanding ‘How the Mind Makes Meaning’
Conflict & Justice
Machine translation for the military
The Future of Robotics
The Future of Robotics
Emerging Science Note/The Price of Intelligence
Environment
Can you read my mind? Technology that reads our thoughts and emotions
Business, Economics and Jobs
Move Over Ken Jennings, IBM’s Watson Is Here