The development of a real, thinking AI, will perhaps be – when achieved – mankind's most crowning achievement. The true creation of an artificial life form. While we're still a way off from that, development of something akin to what we see in any of the many new and upcoming movies …
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One of the most noticeable aspects of the recent Joaquin Phoenix vehicle, “Her,” was that technology in this imagined future was very subtle. Instead of giving us a Minority Report near future filled with glass, aluminium and invasive advertising, we instead were shown a world where technology had retreated into …
Read More »Computer tricks humans into thinking it’s one of them
Computer chatbots are always easy to spot aren't they? They repeat themselves, don't understand conversational tools like sarcasm or irony and are never, never funny, but it looks like that might not be the case for much longer. A pair of researchers have managed to create a computer that was …
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