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Rise of the Chat Bot

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Apr 11, 2016
Chatbots are becoming more available and more ubiquitous.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at last year's F8 summit in San Francisco, California.  
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Microsoft's developer conference highlights machine learning

by Nova Safo
Mar 30, 2016
Silicon Valley is increasingly thinking about artificial intelligence.
A view of Cortana, Microsoft's virtual assistant.
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Scientists want to ID terrorists using their ‘V’ hand gestures

by Donna Tam
Mar 11, 2016
A new study documents the potential role of AI technology and biometrics in fighting terrorism.
A man gestures through a smashed window after making a bomb threat near Sydney, Australia.
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Go-playing computer: 2 Humans: 0

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 10, 2016
Google's AI program AlphaGo one the second of five games against a human Go champion.
Lee Se-Dol, one of the greatest modern players of the ancient board game Go, walks past cameramen after the second game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match at a hotel in Seoul on March 10, 2016. A Google-developed supercomputer bested a South Korean Go grandmaster again on March 10, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in a five-game series that has become a stunning global debut for a new style of 'intuitive' artificial intelligence.
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Go-playing robots are the new chess-playing robots

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Mar 9, 2016
Google's AlphaGo program beat Lee Se-dol, one of the world's best Go players.
In this handout image provided by Google, South Korean professional Go player Lee Se-Dol waits after putting the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match on March 9, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
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Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 challenge: build an AI assistant

by Molly Wood
Jan 5, 2016
The Facebook founder hopes the bot will help with work and around the house.
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Emoticon creator says emoji are :-/

by Kai Ryssdal and Gina Delvac
Apr 22, 2015
Scott Fahlman still prefers the textual simplicity of :-)
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Developing the ideal prosthetic arm

by Ben Johnson and Aparna Alluri
Mar 3, 2015
Why replacing the human hand is a huge engineering challenge.
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A responsible approach to artificial intelligence

by Ben Johnson and Aparna Alluri
Jan 26, 2015
Some say we need to understand how AI can be harmful, even if it isn’t right now.
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Min Headroom: Pop artificial intelligence t 30

by Ben Johnson
Aug 14, 2014
How does 80s character Max Headroom compare to AI products in 2014?
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