Two days after sparking a national debate over perceived threats from artificial intelligence, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reiterated Wednesday that machine-learning technologies are advancing at a staggering rate and should be regulated. But the billionaire entrepreneur isn’t asking for extreme regulation — just the same level of government oversight now given to aircraft, cars, drugs
The war between AI and humanity may be a long way off, but the war between tech billionaire and tech billionaire is only just beginning. Today on Twitter, Elon Musk dismissed Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of the threat posed by artificial intelligence as “limited,” after the Facebook founder disparaged comments Musk made on the subject earlier
Marissa Mayer is launching a new tech incubator in Palo Alto’s luckiest office building Ten months after successfully negotiating Yahoo’s $4.5 billion sale to Verizon, Marissa Mayer is back with a new venture — a technology incubator in downtown Palo Alto that will focus on consumer media and artificial intelligence. Ten months after successfully
Machine learning is infiltrating healthcare and demonstrating improvements in medical imaging, according to a Reaction Data survey. The research firm sought feedback from a range of imaging professionals, including administrators, technicians and directors, at mostly acute care facilities. Here are seven survey insights. About 16 percent of respondents ranked machine learning as not that important while 25
Apple has managed to snag Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a fairly significant victory for a company that has lagged behind its rivals in the AI arena. Per the Times, Apple poached Giannandrea (presumably with a very alluring financial offer) as part of an overall effort to
If science-fiction movies have taught us anything, it’s that the future is a bleak and terrifying dystopia ruled by murderous sentient robots. Fortunately, only one of these things is true – but that could soon change, as the doomsayers are so fond of telling us. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the
