ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Could Transform the Science of Counting Crowds
Jeremy Hsu | IEEE Spectrum
"Crowd counts for politically-charged events such as protests or presidential inaugurations can sometimes spark...
In the quest for ever more powerful computers, researchers are beginning to build quantum computers—machines that exploit the strange properties of physics on the...
Silicon Valley fancies itself the global leader in innovation. Its leaders hype technologies such as bitcoin and blockchain, which some claim are the greatest inventions since...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse by Making Chat a Game
Cade Metz | WIRED
"For Microsoft, winning the game of conversation means winning...
Fear of job loss to automation is growing, with each announcement of exciting technological progress generating a backlash from those who could end up...
We are at the cusp of a stem cell revolution.
Understanding and harnessing these unique cells may unlock breakthroughs in longevity and therapeutic solutions to...
QUANTUM COMPUTING
Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It
Klint Finley | WIRED
"Qbsolv is designed to help developers program D-Wave machines without needing a...
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
I just returned from Las Vegas, after walking 20,000 steps on the floor of the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
It’s huge. For reference, CES...
Digitization and automation are ever-growing topics in relation to the workplace.
A famous Oxford study on the future of employment from 2013 estimated that up...
The future depends on how well we've preserved the past. Tomorrow’s breakthroughs are built from today’s innovation. To continue the trend, we must keep...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Google's AlphaGo AI Secretively Won More Than 50 Straight Games Against the World's Top Go Players
Zheping Huang | QUARTZ
"On Jan. 4, after winning more...
2016 was an incredible year for technology, and for humanity.
Despite all the negative political-related news, there were 10 tech trends this year that positively...
Covering technology is exhilarating.
Each year is filled with unforeseen surprises—advances we thought were years away, unexpected technology applications (like AI used for mental healthcare),...
“If the transcension hypothesis is correct, inner space, not outer space, is the final frontier for universal intelligence. Our destiny is density.”
–John Smart
Only decades...
