Artificial Intelligence
Vox’s coverage of how AI is shaping everything from text and image generation to how we live.
Is it Terminator or our best machine friend?
Beating Go was just the start -- DeepMind has designs on health care, robots and your phone.
Score one for artificial intelligence. Four more matches to go.
Can a machine outdo Picasso?
The pie has gotten much larger, but the landscape has also changed.
Bill Gates is one of those people for whom “needs no introduction” is actually true.
“We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one.”
Prize money will be awarded at the TED conference in 2020.
How much is Silicon Valley spending on AI?
“An OG Valley technology visionary.”
And now the AI research team has the keys to the search kingdom.
Ready? Set? Race to the Singularity!
The smartphone has laid the foundation on which the future will be built and will eventually give birth to that which displaces it.
No deal details, as usual.
Like Tony Stark. Except Tony Stark is make-believe.
The Next Big Thing didn’t show up this year.
It’s time to integrate digital into health care.
Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman will co-chair OpenAI.
Facebook is trying to get a leg up over Google and the rest of Silicon Valley.
Can Google’s beat the game that no other machine has beat?
Facebook’s push into AI continues.
An open source system for “crazy ideas” to compete with Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.
Totally different from what Google’s self-driving unit is working toward, but just as cool.
Facebook is pushing deep into virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
M is the man! (Like, literally ... )
The possibilities are endless. And disturbing.
Another perfect storm of market conditions is brewing for a second wave of virtual personal assistants and conversational interfaces, exceeding the first in both intelligence and pervasiveness.
In June, Google picked Mobvoi as its voice search partner for Android Wear in China. Now it’s giving Mobvoi money.
“Mobile’s not going away, so everyone can relax.”
It won’t happen anytime soon, but Rubin says it’s coming.
What comes after the smartphone?
VocalIQ has been working on new spoken interfaces that could be used in cars, wearables and Internet-connected devices in the home.
Siri doesn’t do so well with the Wechsler intelligence test, but the new, improved digital assistant has some tricks up her sleeve.
AI makes music a “much less elitist taste-making process,” according to the Alphabet chairman.
What the saga of one standout product at Google says about Google.
Our job now is to raise this infant industry in a responsible way. We could be overbearing parents and crush AI, or we can give it a well-rounded upbringing.