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


A voice search WebMD is one of the company’s earliest AI products since tapping a star researcher from Google.


Graava wants to edit video the way our brains remember things: Selectively and automatically.


Meet your new AI algorithmic overlords.


Deep learning -- the super-computing AI behind voice and image recognition -- is all the rage in Silicon Valley.


Aparna Chennapragada, head of Google Now, talks about the future of Google’s personal assistant.


A research group aims to build a practical and ethical framework for AI -- and wrest the story from the Terminator.


This is Twitter’s second AI-related acquisition.


Srikanth Rajagopalan, the product manager for machine intelligence at Google, is joining the educational gaming startup.


In an interview at TED, the technology pioneer and philanthropist discussed his concerns about the next Ebola and the risks posed by computers attaining and even surpassing human intelligence.


The graphics company wants to partner with automakers to power future autonomous vehicles.


Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are worried. Could machine intelligence really lead to the extinction of humans?




An up-close review of Amazon’s new, enigmatic voice-controlled Bluetooth speaker.


We gotta wear shades.


Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff are backing the four-month-old startup to the tune of $8 million.


Plus, a Huawei exec slags Windows Phone, North Korea’s bizarre comment on the Sony hack, and the best way to fry shrimp -- ever.


Plus, why Apple’s UnionPay deal is a big one, Spotify for dogs, treadmills for shrimp and Religious Vader.


Plus, Carl Icahn continues to pester Apple and Elon Musk is afraid of Skynet.


She’s funnier than Siri, for one thing.


Companies will hand their data over to Watson, then ask questions.


The startup’s execs say applying the AI technique has given them an edge in investing.


Siri’s not the only virtual assistant in town.


Are these the robots you’ve been looking for?


Luminoso raises $6.5 million from Acadia Woods, Digital Garage.




Plus, get ready for the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl.


The Aether Cone music player is an intelligent speaker that learns your tastes and has voice recognition. But it needs some work.


Did the programmers create a thinking program or a clever way to trick the judges?


Information that may offer medical insights has been locked away in the filing cabinets of doctors’ offices.


The chip company shows off its open source robot that can talk, dance and tweet.


The exciting conclusion to a two-part Q&A with AI guru Barney Pell on the realities behind the recent sci-fi movie “Transcendence.”


A Q&A with AI guru Barney Pell on the realities behind the recent sci-fi movie, “Transcendence.”


“We’ll be able to tell exactly how the body’s changing when you’re playing videogames.”


Its seed round of $600,000 comes from investors primarily associated with Internet companies, not chips.


Digital natives program their thermostat. Data natives expect the thermostat to program itself.


The broad participation in the round reflects the growing interest in AI.


Two Vancouver startups say they might be close to achieving quantum computing and fusion. If they are, it would matter, a lot.