AI & Robotics

Artificial intelligence is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study. Those findings are contained in a report released this week by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab called, “The Future of Work: How New Technologies Are Transforming Tasks.” The study found signs of how AI is…

Isolating objects in Photoshop can be a painstaking process. If you want to select simple objects, the marquee or lasso tools will get the job done quickly. But if you’re working on a complex subject, like a dog with frizzy fur or a shirt with lots of wrinkles, you’ll have to buckle down and spend some time refining the selection. Adobe’s AI engine is making the process much…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged cooperation with Chinese scientists, warned against the threat of misinformation, and advised against overregulation by governments today in a broad-ranging speech about AI ethics and regulation of big tech companies. He also talked about conflict deterrence between nation-states in the age of AI and pondered how secretaries of state might share information in…

I did a double-take last week when Micron Technology, one of the world’s largest memory chip makers, acquired artificial intelligence hardware and software startup Fwdnxt. The move could be very interesting. If it bears fruit, Fwdnxt could bring Micron into direct competition with partners such as Intel and Nvidia, as Micron believes that memory and AI computing are converging into the same…