Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, are among a group of investors that have created a $27 million fund, with the money going toward the humanities, the social sciences and other disciplines in an effort to develop artificial intelligence. According to...
Samsung Electronics gave more credence to rumors that it is gearing up to launch its own AI assistant dubbed Bixby, with the company saying on its website that consumers have three options when it comes to Samsung Pay: Shopping, Mini and Bixby. According to a report, Bixby...
If chatbots are slated to help people, how do they know what to ask or how to respond? And where does all that data come from? One startup called Mighty AI — which just changed its name this month from Spare5 — gathers that data...
AI brings a lot of promise and will become essential to the growth of the U.S. in the future, but without improvements in education and social services, it could also cause millions of job losses, the White House said in a report on the impact AI...
Starbucks is using AI to reach its customers in new ways and possibly increase its growth and boost sales in the process. Earlier this month, the company unveiled its plan to use AI and the cloud to deliver on “the future of personalization” during a presentation...
Ride-hailing app startup Uber announced Monday (Dec. 5) the creation of Uber AI Labs, which is a new unit of Uber that will be based in San Francisco and focused on research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In conjunction with the new unit, Uber also...
If you think the emotion buttons on Facebook were an upgrade from the “thumbs-up” like button, you’re about to be even more impressed. Facebook says that, in the future, it may build facial gesture controls with the help of newly acquired FacioMetrics — a business...
We don’t have to wait for the future. It’s already here. This year broke records for robots in manufacturing. An astounding 14,583 robots were ordered by North American companies during the first half of 2016. In total, there are 265,000 robots in use in factories...
Samsung announced Sunday (Nov. 6) that the new Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone would launch with an artificial intelligence digital assistant, according to Reuters. Samsung recently acquired Viv Labs Inc., a tech firm run by a co-creator of Apple’s Siri. The AI platform, named Viv, will be...
