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Constant surveillance is a good thing...wait, what?

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 9, 2016
Kevin Kelly on the future of technology in his new book "The Inevitable."
A surveillance camera overlooking a traffic stop in England. 
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Google's Magenta wants to teach machines to be creative

by Ben Johnson and Levi Sharpe
Jun 1, 2016
Giving a new meaning to electronic music.
A photo that's been run through Google's DeepDream neural network.
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Here's what Microsoft's new bot thinks of Kai

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 14, 2016
It does a pretty good job captioning photos! And it's not racist like the last one.
A screenshot from Microsoft's captionbot.ai
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Rise of the Chat Bot

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Apr 11, 2016
Chatbots are becoming more available and more ubiquitous.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at last year's F8 summit in San Francisco, California.  
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Microsoft's developer conference highlights machine learning

by Nova Safo
Mar 30, 2016
Silicon Valley is increasingly thinking about artificial intelligence.
A view of Cortana, Microsoft's virtual assistant.
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Scientists want to ID terrorists using their ‘V’ hand gestures

by Donna Tam
Mar 11, 2016
A new study documents the potential role of AI technology and biometrics in fighting terrorism.
A man gestures through a smashed window after making a bomb threat near Sydney, Australia.
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Go-playing computer: 2 Humans: 0

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 10, 2016
Google's AI program AlphaGo one the second of five games against a human Go champion.
Lee Se-Dol, one of the greatest modern players of the ancient board game Go, walks past cameramen after the second game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match at a hotel in Seoul on March 10, 2016. A Google-developed supercomputer bested a South Korean Go grandmaster again on March 10, taking a commanding 2-0 lead in a five-game series that has become a stunning global debut for a new style of 'intuitive' artificial intelligence.
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Go-playing robots are the new chess-playing robots

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Mar 9, 2016
Google's AlphaGo program beat Lee Se-dol, one of the world's best Go players.
In this handout image provided by Google, South Korean professional Go player Lee Se-Dol waits after putting the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match on March 9, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
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Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 challenge: build an AI assistant

by Molly Wood
Jan 5, 2016
The Facebook founder hopes the bot will help with work and around the house.
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Emoticon creator says emoji are :-/

by Kai Ryssdal and Gina Delvac
Apr 22, 2015
Scott Fahlman still prefers the textual simplicity of :-)
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