Amazon and Microsoft agree their voice assistants will talk (to each other)

Those betting big on AI making voice the dominant user interface of the future are not betting so big as to believe their respective artificially intelligent voice assistants will be the sole vocal oracle that Internet users want or need. And so Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are today announcing a tie-up, which will […]

AI ‘gaydar’ is now a thing and it can tell if you’re gay based on your face

Scientists have created artificial intelligence that can guess whether someone is gay based on a picture of their face—which has some worried about the AI’s future use and implications. In the recently published study, researchers from Stanford University analyzed more than 35,000 faces of men and women from a dating website. Using a sophisticated mathematical system to look at images, the […]

Elon Musk thinks AI will cause the third world war

Image: BEN MACMAHON/EPA/REX/Shutterstock Folks, we’re all screwed. Ever wondered if there would ever be another world war, and what will cause it? Worry no more, as CEO of everything Elon Musk has the answer: artificial intelligence. More precisely, “competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3,” he tweeted Monday. SEE ALSO: […]

Elon Musk just tweeted out another terrifying warning about the dangers of AI

Elon Musk has been sounding the warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence for several years, but on Monday, the Tesla CEO made a startling new prediction. Citing a story from the Verge in which Russia President Vladimir Putin said that the country leading the way in artificial intelligence will become the “ruler of the […]

Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye

Meet Teleport: An app that’s using a trained neural network to power a selfie-editing feature that lets you change the color of your hair at the touch of a button. Fancy seeing how you’d look with red locks or blue? No problemo. Just upload your selfie, wait a few ticks while the AI gets to […]