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Artificial Intelligence

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

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Apple is buying a Seattle-area startup to get smarter about artificial intelligenceApple is buying a Seattle-area startup to get smarter about artificial intelligence
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The company is reportedly paying $200 million for Turi, run by a University of Washington professor.

By Ina Fried
Google wants to improve artificial intelligence to prevent robot screw-ups
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Five ways your future robot might go awry.

By Mark Bergen
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Full transcript: Bloomberg Beta partner James Cham on Too Embarrassed to AskFull transcript: Bloomberg Beta partner James Cham on Too Embarrassed to Ask
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“A core part of artificial intelligence is simulating personalities ... And we’re very, very good at that.”

By Eric Johnson
Pow! Bam! Google uses its AI to bring visual punch to digital comic books.
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Squinters rejoice.

By Mark Bergen
Google has found a business model for its most advanced artificial intelligence
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DeepMind gets a job cutting the costs of data centers.

By Mark Bergen
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Slack’s first big round of startup investments shows that it wants to do more than kill emailSlack’s first big round of startup investments shows that it wants to do more than kill email
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The startup has invested in at least 14 other startups.

By Noah Kulwin
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Toward a smarter software futureToward a smarter software future
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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.

By Ben Bajarin
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Full transcript: Numenta co-founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky on Recode DecodeFull transcript: Numenta co-founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky on Recode Decode
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‘This is going to be the dominant driver in technology going through the remainder of the century.’

By Eric Johnson
Tesla says its self-driving feature was not at fault in deadly crash
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The company calls Fortune’s story “fundamentally incorrect.”

By Mark Bergen
Amazon is making it even easier to buy stuff on Prime with just your voice
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Alexa, buy me anything.

By Mark Bergen
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Artificial intelligence companies need our data. Can we stop giving it away for free?Artificial intelligence companies need our data. Can we stop giving it away for free?
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“We’ve consistently chosen comfort and better decisions, better and more valuable products, over our sense of privacy.”

By Eric Johnson
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Are we about to enter a new ‘golden era’ in technology?Are we about to enter a new ‘golden era’ in technology?
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Voice-based assistants and bots — plus enhanced sound and audio — will have a dramatic impact on the man-machine interface.

By Tim Bajarin
Meet the product chief Google picked to fight Apple and Amazon for control of your home
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The man behind Google Home.

By Mark Bergen
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This is why your fears about artificial intelligence are wrongThis is why your fears about artificial intelligence are wrong
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Elon Musk and James Cameron both missed the mark, the co-founders of Numenta say.

By Eric Johnson
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Roomba maker iRobot may make robots that talk to your smart home devicesRoomba maker iRobot may make robots that talk to your smart home devices
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Will the future of robots look more like “The Jetsons” or “The Terminator”?

By Eric Johnson
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Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire usRobots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us
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But artificial intelligence is coming to colleges in some form, Coursera president Daphne Koller says.

By Eric Johnson
Twitter just bought a machine-learning startup called Magic Pony
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It’s Twitter’s third machine learning/AI acquisition in three years.

By Kurt Wagner
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Can artificial intelligence wipe out cyber terror?Can artificial intelligence wipe out cyber terror?
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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.

By Anup Ghosh
Google Apps gets an injection of artificial intelligence, with more to come
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Springboard searches the contents of your Google Drive, and Google Sites gets a revamp.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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Why CTOs have been thinking about intelligence all wrongWhy CTOs have been thinking about intelligence all wrong
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“Don’t build it, buy it,” says one of the developers of IBM’s Watson supercomputer.

By Anant Jhingran
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Full video: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty at Code 2016Full video: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty at Code 2016
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Artificial intelligence will affect every business decision soon, she says.

By Recode Staff
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Slack’s artificial intelligence will tell you what you need to knowSlack’s artificial intelligence will tell you what you need to know
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Now mainly for messaging, Slack will soon be smart enough to talk back.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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Jeff Bezos’s onstage hint about the coming Apple, Google and Amazon product warJeff Bezos’s onstage hint about the coming Apple, Google and Amazon product war
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The voice-assistant craze is right around the corner.

By Noah Kulwin
Facebook is building artificial intelligence to understand everything you post
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Reading is one thing. Understanding is another.

By Kurt Wagner
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Bill Gates talks about why artificial intelligence is nearly here and how to solve two big problems it createsBill Gates talks about why artificial intelligence is nearly here and how to solve two big problems it creates
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The real challenge is ensuring humans stay in control.

By Ina Fried
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Google answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chipGoogle answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chip
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There’s something tucked under that heat sink.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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Google has a speedy new AI chip it doesn’t really want to talk aboutGoogle has a speedy new AI chip it doesn’t really want to talk about
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Google’s once-secret chip yields more questions than answers.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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Mossberg: Google doubles down on AIMossberg: Google doubles down on AI
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The mobile-centric mindset may be fading.

By Walt Mossberg
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Stop thinking that programmatic is the future of online advertisingStop thinking that programmatic is the future of online advertising
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“Offline” data — things like voice command and in-store shopping — are stil important factors in consumer decision-making.

By Eric Holmen
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Learning about deep learningLearning about deep learning
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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.

By Bob O'Donnell
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s new letter lays out how Google plans to win with AIGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai’s new letter lays out how Google plans to win with AI
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Sundar has a six-point plan.

By Mark Bergen
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Someone built chatbots that talk like the characters from HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’Someone built chatbots that talk like the characters from HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: The Moral Compass of a MachineEthics and Artificial Intelligence: The Moral Compass of a Machine
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The question of robotic ethics is making everyone tense.

By Kris Hammond
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Salesforce.com Acquires Deep Learning Startup MetaMindSalesforce.com Acquires Deep Learning Startup MetaMind
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Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, had been an investor.

By Arik Hesseldahl
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Supplies of Go Board Game Run Short After Computer ChallengeSupplies of Go Board Game Run Short After Computer Challenge
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicized the issue in a retweet on Saturday.

By Ina Fried
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Microsoft’s offensive teen chatbot is so groundedMicrosoft’s offensive teen chatbot is so grounded
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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.

By Ina Fried
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We Can All Learn Something From How Quickly Microsoft’s Chatbot Turned Into a RacistWe Can All Learn Something From How Quickly Microsoft’s Chatbot Turned Into a Racist
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Racism, sexism and xenophobia are all too easily learned.

By Ina Fried
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Here’s Google’s New Strategy to Catch Up in the Cloud: Inject It With Machine LearningHere’s Google’s New Strategy to Catch Up in the Cloud: Inject It With Machine Learning
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Google hopes its AI smarts can boost its cloud game.

By Mark Bergen
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Some artificial intelligence applications are making humans better peopleSome artificial intelligence applications are making humans better people
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to teach us to be better drivers, better teachers, better writers and overall better people.

By Matthew Zeiler
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Score One for Humanity: Google’s Go Machine Finally Loses to Korean ChampScore One for Humanity: Google’s Go Machine Finally Loses to Korean Champ
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Rage against the machine!

By Kurt Wagner