Artificial Intelligence

Google’s Allo app can reveal what you’ve searched to your friends

by Tess Townsend Mar 13, 2017, 9:00pm EDT

The mobile messaging app lets you include Google Assistant in conversations.

Now that Android is getting Google Assistant, here’s how it works

by Tess Townsend Mar 11, 2017, 9:00am EST

Here’s what you can actually do with it.

IBM and Salesforce will start sharing their AI technology

by April Glaser@aprilaser Mar 6, 2017, 5:32pm EST

Watson, meet Einstein.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI startup wants to help robot assistants ask people the questions

by Tess Townsend Mar 2, 2017, 12:17pm EST

Would that be considered a role reversal?

Artificial Intelligence

This bizarre image-translation tool turns drawings into photographs

by Tess Townsend Feb 23, 2017, 6:00am EST

Or at least it tries to.

These University of Washington professors are teaching a course on bullshit

by Tess Townsend Feb 19, 2017, 3:30pm EST

Watch out, Big Data.

This visual recognition startup has poached AI talent from Twitter

by Tess Townsend and Kurt Wagner Feb 2, 2017, 9:00am EST

New York-based Clarifai has picked up a former Google Brain engineer and four members of Twitter’s Cortex machine learning team.

Sundar Pichai makes the case for Google versus Alexa

by Tess Townsend Jan 26, 2017, 9:04pm EST

Google’s CEO says voice search is just part of the bigger search puzzle — and that Google has some real advantages.

Silicon Valley billionaires are ‘prepping’ to survive in underground bunkers

by April Glaser@aprilaser Jan 23, 2017, 10:57am EST

Some in the prepper movement are afraid that AI will lead to a revolt against the wealthy.

The movie ‘Hidden Figures’ can teach us how to keep jobs in an AI future

by Carolina Milanesi Jan 18, 2017, 3:30pm EST

We would be fools to think we have plenty of time to create the skills our “augmented” world will require.

Most engineers are white — and so are the faces they use to train software

by Tess Townsend Jan 18, 2017, 11:45am EST

A black researcher had to wear a white mask to test her own project.

Full Transcript: Vic Gundotra of AliveCor on Recode Decode with Kara Swisher

by Recode Staff Jan 11, 2017, 7:02pm EST

A longtime tech exec shows what happens when big minds take on big problems.

LinkedIn’s and eBay’s founders are donating $20 million to protect us from artificial intelligence

by April Glaser@aprilaser Jan 10, 2017, 4:35pm EST

It’s part of a $27 million fund being managed by MIT and Harvard.

The White House says the U.S. will need a stronger social safety net to help workers displaced by robots

by April Glaser@aprilaser Dec 20, 2016, 6:45pm EST

Advances in automation and robotics may one day leave millions of Americans out of work.

Mark Zuckerberg has finished building his robot butler, Jarvis

by Kurt Wagner Dec 19, 2016, 1:16pm EST

Is Zuckerberg’s home a testing ground for a new Facebook product?

‘I am utterly disgusted’: Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki takes AI down a peg

by Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Dec 11, 2016, 9:00am EST

Or several pegs.

Elon Musk’s nonprofit can help AI systems get smarter — even if their developers have bad intentions

by April Glaser@aprilaser Dec 7, 2016, 3:12pm EST

Universe is a new AI training center that is supposed to teach computers to think more like humans.

In five years, machine learning will be a part of every doctor’s job, Vic Gundotra says

by Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Dec 5, 2016, 6:30am EST

Gundotra, a longtime Microsoft and Google executive, is now the CEO of AliveCor, a mobile health-tech startup.

Amazon is bringing Alexa’s brainpower to its cloud business

by April Glaser@aprilaser Nov 30, 2016, 7:08pm EST

Amazon unveiled voice-enabled AI, image recognition and text-to-speech services for developers.

Slack is watching how you work

by Kurt Wagner Nov 15, 2016, 1:16pm EST

The company wants to use AI to simplify your work conversations.

AI might take jobs, but we can take steps to limit that, says U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker

by Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Oct 19, 2016, 11:00am EDT

"I'm a believer in the human being,” Pritzker said on the latest Recode Decode.

Apple has hired a big brain in AI to make Siri less dumb

by Ina Fried@inafried Oct 17, 2016, 12:50pm EDT

Carnegie Mellon researcher Russ Salakhutdinov will remain a professor in addition to his work at Apple.

These industrial robots teach each other new skills while we sleep

by April Glaser@aprilaser Oct 14, 2016, 3:10pm EDT

It takes days to reprogram an industrial robot. With artificial intelligence, it could take only a few hours.