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Artificial Intelligence

Google answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chip

There's something tucked under that heat sink.

Google has a speedy new AI chip it doesn't really want to talk about

Google's once-secret chip yields more questions than answers.

Mossberg: Google doubles down on AI

The mobile-centric mindset may be fading.

Stop thinking that programmatic is the future of online advertising

"Offline" data — things like voice command and in-store shopping — are stil important factors in consumer decision-making.

Learning about deep learning

A machine capable of reacting to real-world visual, auditory or other type of data -- and then responding in an intelligent way -- has been the stuff of science fiction until very recently.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai's new letter lays out how Google plans to win with AI

Sundar has a six-point plan.

Someone built chatbots that talk like the characters from HBO's 'Silicon Valley'

Long live Pied Piper.

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: The Moral Compass of a Machine

The question of robotic ethics is making everyone tense.

Salesforce.com Acquires Deep Learning Startup MetaMind

Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, had been an investor.

Supplies of Go Board Game Run Short After Computer Challenge

Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicized the issue in a retweet on Saturday.

Microsoft's offensive teen chatbot is so grounded

The company says it won't bring its Twitter chatbot back until it is sure Tay can represent the best, rather than the worst, of humans' online behavior.

We Can All Learn Something From How Quickly Microsoft's Chatbot Turned Into a Racist

Racism, sexism and xenophobia are all too easily learned.

Here’s Google’s New Strategy to Catch Up in the Cloud: Inject It With Machine Learning

Google hopes its AI smarts can boost its cloud game.

Some Artificial Intelligence Applications Are Making Humans Better People

Artificial intelligence has the potential to teach us to be better drivers, better teachers, better writers and overall better people.

Score One for Humanity: Google's Go Machine Finally Loses to Korean Champ

Rage against the machine!

Game, Set, Match: Google Machine Beats Human Go Champion for Third Straight Time

Is it Terminator or our best machine friend?

DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis on How AI Will Shape the Future (Q&A)

Beating Go was just the start -- DeepMind has designs on health care, robots and your phone.

Google's DeepMind Defeats Legendary Go Player Lee Sedol in Historic Victory

Score one for artificial intelligence. Four more matches to go.

Google's Trippy AI Neural Nets Put On an Art Show

Can a machine outdo Picasso?

The End of Standardized Platforms

The pie has gotten much larger, but the landscape has also changed.

Bill Gates: The Energy Breakthrough That Will 'Save Our Planet' Is Less Than 15 Years Away

Bill Gates is one of those people for whom "needs no introduction" is actually true.

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Apple: 'We Believe in Encryption'

"We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one."

X Prize and IBM Announce a $5 Million Artificial Intelligence Competition

Prize money will be awarded at the TED conference in 2020.

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence

How much is Silicon Valley spending on AI?

Why Google's Artificial Intelligence Boss Is Taking Over the Search Empire

"An OG Valley technology visionary."

To Keep AI Safe -- Use AI

Who will be a guard to the guardian?

Google Search King Amit Singhal Retiring, Artificial Intelligence Research Head Taking Over

And now the AI research team has the keys to the search kingdom.

Google Beats Facebook in Race to Beat Unbeatable Game

Ready? Set? Race to the Singularity!

The Post-Mobile Era

The smartphone has laid the foundation on which the future will be built and will eventually give birth to that which displaces it.

Apple Buys Emotient, a Company That Uses AI to Read Emotions

No deal details, as usual.

Mark Zuckerberg's House Is Going to Be So Much Smarter Than Your House

Like Tony Stark. Except Tony Stark is make-believe.

Mossberg: Seven Tech Trends From 2015

The Next Big Thing didn’t show up this year.