Robots and AI Will Take Over These 3 Medical Niches First

Robots and artificial intelligence are greatly advancing modern medicine. AI will help improve robot-assisted surgery, medical imaging, and drug discovery.

New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct

Approach may enable robots to move around hospitals, malls, and other areas with heavy foot traffic

Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For

Artificial intelligence, molecular modelling, cryptography, financial modelling, weather forecasting and particle physics are main problems to be solved by quantum computers.

AI Is Rapidly Transforming the Health Care Industry

From the biggest companies in Silicon Valley to Boston-based startups, the tech sector is transforming the way doctors diagnose and respond to a wide array of illnesses.

IBM's computing power will tackle the world's biggest problems

IBM’s Science for Social Good program will use AI, cloud and deep science to solve global challenges.

Artificial intelligence predicts patient lifespans

A computer's ability to predict a patient's lifespan simply by looking at images of their organs is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research.

New AI Tech Can Mimic Any Voice

Montreal-based start-up is looking to change the way computer voices sound with an artificially intelligent system that learns to mimic a person’s voice.

AI can predict heart attacks more accurately than doctors

A team of UK researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can predict a likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke as well as any doctor.

Microsoft to Open an Iinternet of Things and AI Lab in Germany

To help prepare local innovators for this IoT- and AI-enabled future, and forge new technology alliances in the process, Microsoft is making its product and research groups available to area developers.

Ethics and artificial intelligence

Is there a uniform set of moral laws, and if so, can we teach artificial intelligence those laws to keep it from harming us? This is the question explored in an original short film recently released by The Guardian.

This Delivery Robot Is Learning to Master Crosswalks

Inventors Starship Technologies have taught their robots to avoid traffic lights with buttons and are now giving them speakers and microphones to help them navigate pedestrian crossings.

Human intuition added to planning algorithms

Researchers are trying to improve automated planners by giving them the benefit of human intuition. By encoding the strategies of high-performing human planners in a machine-readable form, they were able to improve the performance of planning algorithms by 10 to 15 percent

Robot reporter gets first article published in China

Reports are out that a Chinese robot has written and published its first newspaper article. The news comes the same month as a Japanese insurance company announced it was replacing 34 workers with an artificial intelligence system.

Ebay's Founder Is Giving Away $10 Million to Support AI That Is Good and Not Evil

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman will each donate $10 million to the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund.

Two Google Chat Bots Are Talking About What They're Talking About

Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the artificial intelligence agent, Google Assistant. If you own a Home, you can ask it questions and tell it to do things, like play music or look up recipes.