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Microsoft apologises for teen AI Tay's behaviour and talks about what went wrong
Tay was given a time out after trolls on Twitter quickly corrupted it to spew racist, sexist and xenophobic slurs.
Japanese AI software co-writes short story that makes it into national literary competition
Artificial intelligence programme co-writes short story that passes first round of Japan literary awards.
SXSW: Meet Sophia, the female humanoid robot that says she wants to start a family, destroy humans
Sophia, whose face is made of patented rubber material, is partly modelled on Audrey Hepburn.
Barclays Techstars start-up Seldon drives open source machine learning
IBTimes had an exclusive chat with one of Barclays Techstars start-ups, machine learning specialist Seldon.
Go world champion Lee Sedol scores first victory against Google's DeepMind AlphaGo
The series is now 4-1 in favour of AlphaGo with Sedol deftly avoiding a clean sweep for the AI in the historic series.
DeepMind AlphaGo beats Go world champion Lee Sedol 3-0 in historic AI victory
The computer program developed by Google beat Lee in a best of five competition
Pokemon Co-Master game announced for iOS and Android smartphones - and it's free
Combines the catch em' all gameplay with board game mechanics and artificial intelligence elements.
DeepMind AlphaGo beats Go world champion Lee Sedol two games in a row
The second win by Google's AI marks a historic moment in the progress of machine learning so far.
Facebook is teaching its artificial intelligence how to read children's stories
Stories from the likes of Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling were used.
What are AI neural networks and how are they applied to financial markets?
Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been pioneering Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks since 1991.
AI X Prize competition puts $5m up for grabs
Latest X Prize tasks teams with using AI to tackle climate change and other global issues
Interactive storytelling could teach artificial intelligence how to understand human morality
Georgia Institute of Technology study hopes that allegorical tales could prevent a deadly robotic future.
Meti president Douglas Vakoch: Sending messages to aliens is not dangerous and we could make contact by 2035
Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence to hold conference on communicating with aliens in May.
AI: Machines will be able to do almost any job by 2045 – so what will become of humans?
Scientists says society must confront idea we will not be needed for labour before it happens.
Next generation of machine learning rockstars will trade Google and Facebook for top secret hedge funds
IBTimes UK spoke to AI finance startup Walnut Algorithms about machine learning and the financial sector.
How to stop cold callers: Inventor creates ingenious AI chatbot to waste time of telemarketers
The Jolly Roger Telephone company uses artificial intelligence to waste time of telesales callers.
Doomsday Clock: Watch announcement of how close Earth is to catastrophe live online
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to announce how close we are to the apocalypse with its Doomsday Clock.
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking win Luddite Award for artificial intelligence fears
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation criticises Musk and Hawking for alarmist AI fears
Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity
"We need to start thinking about the internet as an organism that can evolve."
Artificial intelligence used as TV weather presenter in China
Microsoft's Xiaoice appeared on Dragon TV and continues to work as 'trainee anchor' for the station.
Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking nominated for 'Luddite Awards'
Trio labelled 'alarmists' for touting an artificial intelligence apocalypse.
Here's how self-driving cars can detect dangerous roads using sound and AI
AI neural networks can be used to detect when roads are dangerously wet by analysing sounds made by tyres.
REV review: Smartphone-controlled toy cars pit humans against AI in laser battles
Toy race car REV lets humans battle each other or artificial intelligence in numerous laser fight modes.
Wikipedia deploys 'X-ray specs' artificial intelligence to fight vandalism
ORES AI engine will rid Wikipedia of 'rogue editors' that use encyclopedia for nefarious purposes.
Humai wants to resurrect the dead with AI, cloning and nanotechnology – but is it real?
US 'entrepreneur' Josh Bocanegra claims they will be able to achieve everlasting life by 2045.
Artificial intelligence program passes college entrance exam
New AI program was developed using the skills of university and corporate researchers.
Google plans 'watershed' quantum computing announcement in December
Google is using D-Wave systems to study how quantum computing can advance artificial intelligence.
Toyota to invest $1bn in Silicon Valley artificial intelligence facility
Facility will help Toyota tap into tech knowledge of Silicon Valley and Stanford.
Facebook's M assistant combines human and artificial intelligence to do 'anything you want'
Facebook's CTO Mike Schroepfer tells IBTimes UK that M can do anything so long as it's legal.
Artificial intelligence vs Buzzfeed: Neural network taught to write clickbait headlines
Programmer fed two million headlines into neural network to train computer in clickbait.