Oct 25 Here’s why artificial intelligence isn’t out to get us By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Hollywood’s dark vision of machines taking over belies how far artificial intelligence is from meaningful reality—and what it will look like when it gets there. Continue reading
Mar 09 Google artificial intelligence beats world champion in first game of Go tournament By Nsikan Akpan Artificial intelligence 1, humans 0 is current score of a five-game, five-day tournament between a Google computer program and the world champion of Go, the most complex board game ever created. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch 8:08 How a computer program became champion of the world’s trickiest board game By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 27 Google artificial intelligence beats champion at world’s most complicated board game By Nsikan Akpan Go is considered the most complicated game in human history. Google has now built an artificial intelligence program that can beat a professional player. Continue reading
Aug 06 5 weapons that don’t need a human to pull the trigger By Alexandra Hall How close are we to fully automated weaponry? Are there actual killer robots out there right now, ready to fight wars? Yes and no. Continue reading
Jul 30 Watch 8:42 Do labor-saving robots spell doom for American workers? By PBS News Hour The onslaught of automation that's replacing human workers -- from golf caddies to bank tellers -- may be putting us on a path to humanitarian crisis, says Jerry Kaplan, author of "Humans Need Not Apply." As technology grows and jobs… Continue watching
Jul 30 The hidden dangers of our robotic rivals By Jerry Kaplan New hazards arise as machines increasingly intrude into domains that were formerly the exclusive province of humans. Jerry Kaplan explains the hidden dangers of the human-machine competition. Continue reading
May 22 3 white collar jobs that robots are already mastering By Joanne Elgart Jennings Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen plenty of blue collar jobs outsourced to machines — from auto assembly to customer service. Now, as computers, equipped with artificial intelligence, increasingly take over “information jobs,” tasks that were once reserved for… Continue reading
May 20 Watch 8:15 Will your job get outsourced to a robot? By PBS News Hour It's not just basic tasks anymore: Computers can now do work once deemed possible only by humans. And in some cases, the computers are doing it better. In an economy driven increasingly by intelligent automation, which jobs will survive? Hari… Continue watching
May 12 Watch 7:21 Why we’re teaching computers to help treat cancer By PBS News Hour Continue watching