DARPA to Grant $2B to AI Projects Over Next Five Years
DARPA stands for “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,” but while defense is good and all, what DARPA is really into is that P, for...
Ethics Forum at Harvard Points to Urgency of AI and Ethics Discussion
An elite group of academics, scientists, researchers and standard-setters came together recently at Harvard University to bring new urgency to a discussion of AI...
Beware of Artificial Stupidity
I learned a few things from reading an excerpt from Yuval Noah Harari’s book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, published in the October issue...
State, Federal Government Pursuing AI to Reshape Citizen Experience
Over the last 20 years, the ongoing digital revolution has brought massive changes to the way most of us work and live. Artificial Intelligence...
Here is An Overview of National AI Strategies
By Tim Dutton, AI Policy Researcher, Medium
The race to become the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) has officially begun. In the past fifteen...
AI Robot, Immune to Moral Factors, Helping to Make China’s Foreign Policy
Attention, foreign-policy makers. You will soon be working with, or competing against, a new type of robot with the potential to change the game...
VA, IBM Extend Watson For Genomics Partnership
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health have announced the extension of a public-private partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI)...
San Jose Relying on Planning, Collaboration to be Smartest City
The San Jose Smart City Vision is a plan that uses technology and data-driven decision-making to promote safety, sustainability, economic opportunity and quality of...
Pentagon Struggling to Take Advantage of Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon sees artificial intelligence and related technologies as key enablers of future military operations. But the Defense Department faces challenges as it seeks...
Elon Musk calls for global ban on autonomous weapons – killer robots
Tesla boss Elon Musk is among a group of 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies who are calling on the United Nations...