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Google’s ‘superhuman’ DeepMind AI claims chess crown

“Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm’s DeepMind division says that it played 100 games against Stockfish 8, and …

Drone Race: Human Versus Artificial Intelligence

“Drone racing is a high-speed sport demanding instinctive reflexes — but humans won’t be the only competitors for long. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, put their work to the test recently. Timing laps through a …

Chinese robot becomes world’s first machine to pass medical exam

“A Chinese AI medical robot named “Xiaoyi” became the world’s first to pass the written test of China’s National Medical Licensing Examination, who will now work to improve clinical diagnosis, Beijing News reported. The robot scored 456 points …

Sony’s Aibo robot dog is back, gives us OLED puppy dog eyes

“Weird Sony is back, and it recently announced a new version of the Sony Aibo, everyone’s favorite robotic toy dog! Sony has been out of the plastic pooch business for about 11 years, and the 2017 version is well-equipped …

Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia

“Saudi Arabia just made a non-human woman a citizen, making it the first country to grant a robot the right to citizenship, at least as far as we know. Why it did so isn’t immediately evident, but the irony …

HPE Is Making Artificial Intelligence Accessible and Practical

“New tools and partnerships bring Deep Learning techniques to customers who’re at various stages of their Artificial Intelligence adoption journey For decades, we’ve confined Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to the realm of science fiction. Whether aspirational — like Commander …

AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch

“Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are specialist systems that leverage enormous amounts of human expertise and data …

Intel Accelerates Development of Artificial Intelligence Solutions with Open Neural Network Exchange Support

“Today, Intel announced that it joined the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) to enable enhanced framework interoperability for developers that boosts efficiency and speeds creation of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning models. AI and deep learning are transforming how …

Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip with Advanced Packaging to QuTech

“Today, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands. The new chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield …

Google Clips Captures and Curates Life’s Meaningful Moments Autonomously with Intel’s Movidius VPU Inside

“Intel announced that the new Google Clips* hands-free camera uses the Movidius™ Myriad™ 2 vision processing unit (VPU) for on-device artificial intelligence (AI) processing. Google Clips captures and curates motion photos of a person’s family, friends and pets, making …