Green self-driving cars take center stage at Tokyo auto show
TOKYO - Visions of cars that drive themselves without emitting a bit of pollution while entertaining passengers with online movies and social media are what's taking center stage at the Tokyo Motor Show.
View ArticleFacebook wants to tap robot brains to do your bidding
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook is studying the ancient Chinese game of Go for insights as it works on building an artificial brain - one that it hopes to turn into a virtual personal assistant that can also...
View ArticleGoogle will let artificial intelligence reply to your email
SAN FRANCISCO - Google is putting a different twist on the concept of "automated reply" with a new tool that aims to write artificially intelligent responses to your email.
View ArticleToyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US
TOKYO - Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley to develop artificial intelligence and robotics, underlining the Japanese automaker's determination to...
View ArticleToyota harbors big ambitions for "partner robot" business
TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is harboring big ambitions to become a significant player in the growing market for robots that help the elderly and other people get around in everyday life.
View ArticleIn Tech: AI research center, Android Pay, OneDrive storage
Three billionaires who launched PayPal and then went on to even greater success in their next ventures are now trying to make sure that artificial intelligence does more good than harm to humans.
View ArticleMarvin Minsky, pioneer of artificial intelligence, dies
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and...
View ArticleBeyond chess: Computer beats human in ancient Chinese game
NEW YORK - A computer program has beaten a human champion at the ancient Chinese board game Go, marking a significant advance for development of artificial intelligence.
View ArticleMIT to host artificial intelligence conference
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is holding a conference on the future of artificial intelligence that includes some of the field's biggest names.
View ArticleHuman champion certain he'll beat AI at ancient Chinese game
SEOUL, South Korea - The world champion of the ancient board game Go, South Korean Lee Sedol, expects to prevail in a match with Google's computer program AlphaGo next month, but he's not so sure he...
View ArticleGo master: AI will one day prevail but beauty of Go remains
SEOUL, South Korea - Computers eventually will defeat human players of Go, but the beauty of the ancient Chinese game of strategy that has fascinated people for thousands of years will remain, the Go...
View ArticleGoogle's software beats human Go champion in first match
SEOUL, South Korea - Google's computer program AlphaGo defeated its human opponent, South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, on Wednesday in the first face-off of a historic five-game match.
View ArticleAll about Go, the ancient game in which AI bested a master
SEOUL, South Korea - The rules of Go, the ancient Chinese board game that is the stage for a man-vs-machine battle this week, are beautifully simple. Actually playing it is anything but.
View ArticleHuman Go champion 'speechless' after 2nd loss to machine
SEOUL, South Korea - The human Go champion said he was left "speechless" after his second straight loss to Google's Go-playing machine on Thursday in a highly-anticipated human versus machine face-off.
View ArticleHuman Go champion scores 1st win over machine after 3 losses
SEOUL, South Korea - A champion Go player scored his first win over a Go-playing computer program on Sunday after losing three straight times in the ancient Chinese board game, saying he finally found...
View ArticleHuman Go champ says machine not superior despite 1:4 defeat
SEOUL, South Korea - Game not over? Human Go champion Lee Sedol says Google's Go-playing program AlphaGo is not yet superior to humans, despite its 4:1 victory in a match that ended Tuesday.
View ArticleImage of Asia: Watching a battle of man vs. machine in Korea
In this photo by Ahn Young-joon, schoolchildren watch a smartphone screen showing the live broadcast of the Go board game series finale between Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence machine,...
View ArticleMicrosoft axes chatbot that learned a little too much online
SAN FRANCISCO - OMG! Did you hear about the artificial intelligence program that Microsoft designed to chat like a teenage girl? It was totally yanked offline in less than a day, after it began...
View ArticleHigh-tech Boston area in legal bind on driverless-car tests
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - With its Colonial-era street patterns, icy winters, notoriously aggressive drivers and high-tech talent, the Boston region would seem the perfect place to test self-driving...
View ArticleFacebook programs computers to describe photos for the blind
MENLO PARK, California - Facebook is training its computers to become seeing-eye guides for blind and visually impaired people as they scroll through the pictures posted on the world's largest online...
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