artificial intelligence

Politics & Government

Computer Scientists Demonstrate The Potential For Faking Video

9:39am July 14, 2017

by Aarti Shahani

Fake news articles may just be the tip of the iceberg. New research — which manipulates footage of former President Obama — shows it's possible to create fake news videos too.

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Our brains can store huge amounts of information, but forgetting some of that information may actually make us smarter.

Could The Best Memory System Be One That Forgets?

3:56pm June 23, 2017

by Andrea Hsu

Forget thinking about forgetting as failure. Researchers now say that ridding our brains of irrelevant details and outdated information helps us better navigate our ever-changing world.

Ke Jie, the world's No. 1 Go player, stares at the board during his second match against AlphaGo in Wuzhen, China, on Thursday. The 19-year-old grandmaster dropped the match in the best-of-three series against Google's artificial intelligence program.

Google A.I. Clinches Series Against Humanity's Last, Best Hope To Win At Go

1:13pm May 25, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Ke Jie is a wunderkind — the 19-year-old undisputed master of what might well be the world's most complex game. And he just soundly lost a best-of-three series to an artificial intelligence program.

Spectators watch the world's top-ranked Go player, Ke Jie, square off against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China, on Tuesday. The program beat Ke in the first of three planned matches.

World News

'Like A God,' Google A.I. Beats Human Champ Of Notoriously Complex Go Game

5:53pm May 23, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

"Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played," the world's No. 1 Go player, Ke Jie, said after losing the first in a three-match series. "But this year, it became like a god of Go."

When You're Not Quite Sure If Your Teacher Is Human

9:54am May 08, 2017

by Tasnim Shamma

When this computer science professor became overwhelmed with the number of questions students were asking, he recruited artificial intelligence to help serve up some answers.

A conference worker passes a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, on Tuesday in San Jose, Calif.

Murder Video Again Raises Questions About How Facebook Handles Content

4:48pm April 21, 2017

by Laura Sydell

A murder video uploaded to Facebook brought attention to how the company monitors upsetting content. Artificial intelligence may be a solution, but experts say it could bring unwanted results.

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Digital lenders are pulling in all kinds of data, like purchases, SAT scores and public records.

Economy

Will Using Artificial Intelligence To Make Loans Trade One Kind Of Bias For Another?

5:10am March 31, 2017

by Charles Lane

The next loan you get may depend less on your credit score and more on what a program thinks of your habits. Digital lenders say the process will be more fair, but others worry about unintended bias.

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As the presence of artificial intelligence continues to grow in the world, industry leaders and scholars are starting to explore the ethics surrounding the science.

Scholars Delve Deeper Into The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence

7:58pm November 21, 2016

by NPR Staff

What happens when you make robots that are smart, independent thinkers — and then try to limit their autonomy? A $10 million gift is aimed at answering such questions at Carnegie Mellon University.

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An image of the U.S. capitol building distorted in what researchers from MIT call a "toxic city" style by an artificial intelligence algorithm.

National

Researchers Build 'Nightmare Machine'

6:16pm October 25, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

An MIT project rolled out just in time for Halloween uses artificial intelligence to generate horror images.

World chess champion Magnes Carlsen (right) won't play his computer or play the game like a computer. Instead, he chooses his strategy based on what he knows about his opponent.

Sports

20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match For Computers On The Chessboard

6:40pm October 24, 2016

by Robert Siegel

IBM's Deep Blue beat chess great Garry Kasparov in 1997. Humans and computers play the game differently, but have computers taught humans much about the game?

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