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After several years of research, Facebook announced in a blog post on Wednesday that it has built and is now open-sourcing a new humanlike chatbot. The chatbot combines a wide range of conversational skills including personality, knowledge and empathy to make the AI feel more human.  The social networking company has spent years studying conversational …

COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus, has infected more than a million people around the world. In a new step to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Intel will spend $50 million on improving patient care, scientific research and online education. The chipmaker’s effort, unveiled Tuesday, is among several examples of companies going beyond their usual area of business …

Canopy, a privacy-focused recommendations startup, has been acquired by CNN, a unit of wireless giant AT&T through its WarnerMedia devision. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.  Built by Spotify, Instagram, Google and New York Times alumni, the startup is trying to figure out how algorithm-powered recommendations, like the kinds that suggest videos on YouTube or items in your Facebook …

In 2018, IBM debuted technology called IBM Debater that used artificial intelligence technology to read lots of documents and take on a human in a competitive debate about issues like whether we should subsidize preschools. In 2019, Big Blue pitted IBM Debater against a champion debater in a live-streamed competition. And now you can use IBM Debater technology to find …

CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai is convinced that AI must be regulated in order to prevent the potential negative consequences of tools including deepfakes and facial recognition, he said in an op-ed for the Financial Times on Monday. “There is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated,” Pichai wrote. “It is too important …

Deepfakes and other manipulated videos put the integrity of democratic elections at risk, a group of experts told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Wednesday. What to do about it is a thorny question. A hearing, titled “Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age” and held by the subcommittee on Consumer Protection, focused on the wide …

A human defeated a computer-piloted drone in the Drone Racing League’s first man-vs.-machine competition. But the programmers behind the AI-powered drone, Team MAVLab from the Netherlands, can take consolation in a $1 million prize for creating the fastest self-piloting aircraft this season. The Drone Racing League mostly involves human pilots, but this year it began its first computer-piloted drone competition, …

I’m sitting down on a sofa, talking to what looks like a Facetime with Deepak Chopra on a phone. It’s not him, though. It’s an animated, sometimes realistic, talking head. He asks me how I feel. I end up discussing work stress. He suggests a meditation. For a few minutes, I’m having a little session with a Deepak that doesn’t …

We knew we’d get a bunch of new laptops at Microsoft’s Surface event on Tuesday. What we didn’t know is we’d also get a new Microsoft processor, a Qualcomm-derived chip called the SQ1. That chip in the new Surface Pro X carries a message from Microsoft: It’s time for laptops to get phone-like all-day battery life, but not if that …

If you’re an athlete, sponsor, journalist or volunteer at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, you’ll be using a facial recognition system from Japanese electronics giant NEC and chipmaker Intel to get where you need to be. Intel is collaborating with NEC to provide “a large-scale face recognition system for the Olympics,” said Ricardo Echevarria, general manager of Intel’s Olympics program. …