Artificial Intelligence
Vox’s coverage of how AI is shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live.


The company is reportedly paying $200 million for Turi, run by a University of Washington professor.

Five ways your future robot might go awry.


“A core part of artificial intelligence is simulating personalities ... And we’re very, very good at that.”

Squinters rejoice.

DeepMind gets a job cutting the costs of data centers.


The startup has invested in at least 14 other startups.


We don’t want to spend increasingly longer portions of our day with machines. The less we have to tell them what we want, the better.


‘This is going to be the dominant driver in technology going through the remainder of the century.’

The company calls Fortune’s story “fundamentally incorrect.”

Alexa, buy me anything.


“We’ve consistently chosen comfort and better decisions, better and more valuable products, over our sense of privacy.”
Voice-based assistants and bots — plus enhanced sound and audio — will have a dramatic impact on the man-machine interface.

The man behind Google Home.


Elon Musk and James Cameron both missed the mark, the co-founders of Numenta say.


Will the future of robots look more like “The Jetsons” or “The Terminator”?


But artificial intelligence is coming to colleges in some form, Coursera president Daphne Koller says.

It’s Twitter’s third machine learning/AI acquisition in three years.


AI will replace large teams of tier-1 SOC analysts who today stare at endless streams of threat alerts, says a former director of DARPA.

Springboard searches the contents of your Google Drive, and Google Sites gets a revamp.


“Don’t build it, buy it,” says one of the developers of IBM’s Watson supercomputer.
Artificial intelligence will affect every business decision soon, she says.


Now mainly for messaging, Slack will soon be smart enough to talk back.
The voice-assistant craze is right around the corner.
Reading is one thing. Understanding is another.
The real challenge is ensuring humans stay in control.


There’s something tucked under that heat sink.


Google’s once-secret chip yields more questions than answers.


The mobile-centric mindset may be fading.


“Offline” data — things like voice command and in-store shopping — are stil important factors in consumer decision-making.


A machine capable of reacting to real-world visual, auditory or other type of data -- and then responding in an intelligent way -- has been the stuff of science fiction until very recently.


Sundar has a six-point plan.
Long live Pied Piper.


The question of robotic ethics is making everyone tense.


Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, had been an investor.


Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicized the issue in a retweet on Saturday.


The company says it won’t bring its Twitter chatbot back until it is sure Tay can represent the best, rather than the worst, of humans’ online behavior.


Racism, sexism and xenophobia are all too easily learned.


Google hopes its AI smarts can boost its cloud game.


Artificial intelligence has the potential to teach us to be better drivers, better teachers, better writers and overall better people.


Rage against the machine!