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MogIA, an artificial intelligence system that has correctly predicted the outcomes of the last three U.S. presidential elections, predicts that Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States.

Using an “artificial brain,” Google DeepMind researchers have developed a new voice synthesizing technique they claim is at least 50% closer to real human speech than current text-to-speech (TTS) systems in both US English and Mandarin Chinese.

A Russian robot with artificial intelligence and programmed to learn may be destroyed following its second attempt at escaping its creators.

Team members at Google are currently developing a “kill switch” to prevent artificial intelligence from becoming a threat to humans.

The Obama administration wants to use more artificial intelligence to solve the problems with big government.

Being a pharmacist has for decades been one of the most respected and highest paying jobs, but apps and robotics now threaten to make most pharmacists obsolete.

Researchers at UCLA have invented a method using a microscope augmented by artifical intelligence to detect cancer cells quicker and more accurately than current techniques.

The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.

Zoltan Istvan is the most intriguing presidential candidate you’ve never heard of. While those at the forefront of the 2016 race talk about defeating ISIS, Istvan is taking on beating death itself. Recently, I had a chance to talk to him.

Microsoft has issued an apology over their creation of an artificial intelligence program behind a Twitter account that began to post and retweet racist remarks.

Microsoft is attempting to create a more intelligent and intuitive type of artificial intelligence by training computers to play Minecraft efficiently on their own, it announced in an official blog post.

The development of computer systems that could hold their own against chess grandmasters was a major step toward the development of artificial intelligence. Another step was taken when Google’s AlphaGo program beat grandmaster Lee Se-Dol at Go, the far more complex Chinese strategy game. AlphaGo’s designers professed themselves astounded by its victory, which arrived a decade earlier than they anticipated.

Contents: Google’s AlphaGo computer defeats world champion at game of Go; Despite rapid growth of ISIS in Libya, West cannot agree on a strategy

(AFP) — A Google computer’s stunning 3-0 victory in a Man-vs-Machine face-off over the ultimate board game highlights the need to keep Artificial Intelligence under human control, experts said Saturday.

Robotics, once the almost exclusive purview of science fiction, is now approaching a point at which it will be capable of dramatic influence over humanity. These advancements are as much a lesson in caution as in the wonder of the human imagination.

Contents: China’s game of Go beaten by Google’s AI software program AlphaGo; Google DeepMind’s Go algorithm uses massive pattern matching neural networks; Google’s AI technology will soon start taking people’s jobs

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to create an artificial intelligence that can manage his household, help him run his company, and even keep an eye on his child.

Contents: 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence; The debate about preventing the Singularity; Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change; Proof that the Singularity will occur by 2030

Science fiction has considered the question of artificial intelligence since the very beginning — what is the subject of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein if not an artificial intelligence, made from organic parts instead of metal?

Silicon Valley billionaires, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman announced on Friday that they are planning to help commit $1 billion to an Artificial Intelligence centre in San Francisco. OpenAI, the official name of the project, is said to

The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.

While awarding the medal of freedom to director Steven Spielberg and other celebrities, President Obama jokingly suggested that the director of movies like “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” and “Lincoln” should make one about his presidency.

He doesn’t seem to be polling terribly well at the moment, but “transhumanist atheist” Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job. Scott Beauchamp of the Pacific

“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.

Alphabet is doubling down on investments by its subsidiary into artificial intelligence and leveraging a digitized cortex to manage its flagship service.

For years, the advance of artificial intelligence and human augmentation has been forensically debated by three broad factions.

Technology’s advance is bringing us closer to the uncomfortable point at which organic and mechanical life begins to merge. That’s really what the growing ethical, legal, and practical conflicts in science boil down to.

As fears grow over what might happen if computers gain an intelligence of their own, tax-funded entrepreneur Elon Musk is sinking over $6 million into a research project to study the worst case scenarios.

In a national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer.

You’ll be able to buy a human brain’s worth of computing power for a thousand bucks in 2020 (which means just about everyone will have it.) You’ll be able to buy a machine with the computing power of all human minds combined for a thousand bucks by 2040. What will a thousand dollars buy in 2060, or 2100? A demigod?

Tech magnate Elon Musk is part of a group of science and technology celebrities—which includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates and physicist Stephen Hawking—who believe the impending development of artificial intelligence poses a threat to human society and perhaps even human survival.

It may be time to think about baptizing the Terminator, according to Reverend Christopher Benek, an associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, who believes that religion may help artificial intelligence live alongside human beings. “I don’t see Christ’s redemption limited to human beings. It’s redemption to all of creation, even AI. If AI is autonomous, then we have should encourage it to participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes in the world,” he said.

Humanity handled Y2K. But AI may be something bigger and more difficult. After all, we didn’t have to worry about Y2K fighting back. Perhaps it’s worth thinking about the safeguards that should be built into contemporary progenitors of the future’s incredibly complex expert systems, before they become self-aware and acquire civil rights.

Americans are accustomed to the dominance of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as search engines, but on the global stage, a Chinese service called Baidu is now second only to Google in popularity.