artificial intelligence Archives

Watch: MIT’s ‘Mini Cheetah’ Robot Runs at Its Fastest Speed Recorded Yet

The four-legged robot can adapt to its environment and learn from obstacles.

Spy Used AI-Generated Face to Connect with Targets, Experts Say

This Katie Jones doesn’t exist. She is part of a vast army of phantom profiles...

Did Four AI Robots Kill 29 Scientists in Japan?

The claim came from a UFOlogist -- and, yes, it does sound like something from...

Did Saudi Arabia Behead Its First Robot Citizen?

A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international...

Did Facebook Shut Down an AI Experiment Because Chatbots Developed Their Own Language?

Facebook's artificial intelligence scientists were purportedly dismayed when the bots they created began conversing in...

Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?

A philosophical notion called the "simulation hypothesis," said to be growing in popularity in high-tech...

Robots with Guns: The Rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems

An August 2017 letter to the U.N. signed by Elon Musk and other tech luminaries...

The Saga of Twitter Bot Tay

A Microsoft experiment with AI to research "conversational understanding" on social media quickly turned into...