The future realization of robot lifeforms is referred to by a plethora of terms – sentience, artificial general intelligence (AGI), living machines, self-aware robots, and so forth. A machine capable of at least human-level reasoning, thought, memory, learning, and self-awareness.…
Renowned researchers Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum have devoted their entire lives to the study of computer science with a particular focus on consciousness. And, just recently, they published new research that could serve as a blueprint for developing and…
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against…
Can GPT-3 compute the ultimate question about life, the Universe and everything? I entered AI Dungeon, planning to gently nudge GPT-3 into doing the necessary computations. My plan: I’d write the first half of a story about a man who…
A new AI model for summarizing scientific literature can now assist researchers in wading through and identifying the latest cutting-edge papers they want to read. On November 16, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) rolled out the model onto…
According to a new A.I.-assisted algorithm, he was one of several hundred V.A. patients nationwide, of six million total, deemed at imminent risk of suicide. “I don’t like this idea of a list, to tell you the truth — a…
Still, systems like the board-game champion AlphaZero and the increasingly convincing fake-text generator GPT-3 have stoked the flames of debate regarding when humans will create an artificial general intelligence—machines that can multitask, think, and reason for themselves. “Most of the…
Until the pandemic none of the major oil forecasters had seen an imminent demand peak. The gap between each forecast comes down to differing assumptions about government policies, economic conditions and consumer preferences for things such as new electric cars…
The difficulties imposed by the pandemic have led to a serious rethinking in the traditionally call center-based customer service economy. Traditional IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems in contact centers become expensive and outdated to maintain as they are not compatible…
“Traditional processes may have produced satisfactory results for decades, but they’re not enough in today’s fast-moving business climate,” said Larry Kerr, president and CEO of Illinois-based EBE Technologies. AI-supported accounts payable and purchase order (PO) manager solutions a “one-stop shop…
