The U.S. Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF) developing a new AI-enabled combat system to embrace future warfare, according to a recent service news release.

The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China.

The internet was designed to make information free and easy for anyone to access. But as the amount of personal information online has grown, so too have the risks. Last weekend, a nightmare scenario for many privacy advocates arrived. The New York Times revealed Clearview AI, a secretive surveillance company, was selling a facial recognition tool to law enforcement powered by “three billion images” culled from the open web.

Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said they’d trust a robot more than their manager. So where does that leave people in leadership roles?

Sophisticated unmanned mini-tanks patrol alongside soldiers, but humans still decide when to shoot.

There is a theory in mathematics that an indefinite number of monkeys typing on an indefinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the complete written works of William Shakespeare. Were that the case, however, would we consider their work to be art?

Cast your mind back a decade or so and consider how the future looked then. A public horizon of Obama-imbued “yes we can” and a high tide of hope and tolerance expressed in the London Olympics provides one narrative theme; underlying austerity-induced pressure another. Neither speaks directly to our current world of divisive partisan politics, toxic social media use, competing facts and readily believed fictions.

AI researchers admit that the hype around AI may be cooling off once again.

The new decade opened with some intriguing news: the journal Nature reported that artificial intelligence was better at identifying breast cancers on mammograms than radiologists. Researchers at Google Health teamed up with academic medical centers in the United States and Britain to train an AI system using tens of thousands of mammograms.

The first-of-its-kind law, effective today, might give candidates a bit more insight into the algorithms that analyze their interviews, but they shouldn’t expect much to change.

Assuming the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be able to understand it?

Samsung, the same company that spent 2019 tripping over itself repeatedly in its attempts to produce a decent foldable phone that didn’t crap out after a couple days’ usage, is teasing …

Software company Mirriad has developed a way for adverts to be “inserted” into films and television shows streamed online. It uses artificial intelligence techniques to recognise objects in a scene and spot slots where branded goods and posters can be added without looking out of place. The aim is to ultimately tailor the product placements to individual viewers' interests.

The company rates you based on your digital fingerprint.

Technology from it's beginning has been good and bad. The bad from it has come from us weaponizing whether it be images, ideas or even people.

"I do not create these works, I co-create them with the AI models that I bring to life."

OpenAI today published the final model in its staged release for GPT-2, the spooky text generator the AI community’s been talking about all year. GPT-2 uses machine learning to generate novel text based on a limited input.

Microsoft president Brad Smith has predicted that artificial intelligence will transform society in the next three decades, just as the internal combustion engine did during the first half of the 20th century. Smith was speaking at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Wednesday, where he discussed the intersection between tech and society.

A neural network that teaches itself the laws of physics could help to solve quantum-mechanics mysteries.

It’s become increasingly clear as we reach its limits that deep learning – a specific subset of AI technology – isn’t going to magically lead to human-level artificial intelligence.