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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has his own startup called Inflection AI. His premiere product called Pi is specifically limited from offering folks financial advice or new products. Photo: John ...

Author's rendition of a basic Turing test set-up. Sitting in between two agents (one human and one machine), a person needs to interact with both agents and determine (correctly) which is a machine.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Here’s the great thing about humans: We make mistakes. As programmers get better at building bots that can perfectly recognize obscured ...

If you ran into a robot in the street, there are a number of crucial giveaways that would help you pick it out from a human crowd — silicon skin or unblinking eyes, to name a few. Yet, when people ...

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

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