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01/27/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

You CAN clone yourself – in about 20 years, according to Microsoft; a “robot second-self” will act as a digital extension of your consciousness

In 20 years, humans will have robot doubles containing digital copies of their consciousness. That’s the future envisioned by Microsoft executives Brad Smith and Harry Shum. According to the two men, artificial intelligence (AI) alter egos are inevitable. This is just one of the predictions they’ve outlined in their book, “The Future Computed.” In the pages, […]

09/30/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Exercise in frustration: Microsoft is exchanging its foreign customer service agents for chatbots

After taking over our manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is now poised to muscle in on another ubiquitous industry: customer service. Technology behemoth Microsoft has created a virtual assistant that companies can use to handle customer service requests. This AI chatbot is the newest and first product in a line of up-and-coming software that lets artificial […]

03/25/2016 / By newstarget

Microsoft’s AI robot became a hitler loving sex-addict in less than 24hours, forced to shutdown

A day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, ‘Bush did 9/11’-proclaiming robot. (Article by Helena Horton, republished from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/24/microsofts-teen-girl-ai-turns-into-a-hitler-loving-sex-robot-wit/) Developers at Microsoft created ‘Tay’, an AI modelled to speak ‘like a teen girl’, in order to improve the customer […]

02/15/2016 / By healthrangerinventions

NASA dives deeper into how it’s really using HoloLens

A year ago we heard that NASA and Microsoft were teaming up to build Sidekick, a project that uses HoloLens to let astronauts and scientists collaborate remotely, as well as visualize 3D schematics. Now we’ve finally got a closer look at Sidekick in action thanks to NASA’s Jeff Norris, who discussed the project during a […]

11/10/2015 / By Chris Draper

Facebook to develop A.I. system that plays game no other computer program can master

Computers trump people at various games, from chess to trivia. Nevertheless, there remains one pastime where humans still reign supreme: the game of Go. This supremacy may be in its twilight, however, as Facebook officials study Go in hopes of building an artificial brain and, in turn, a virtual assistant. Computers are able to win various […]

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