AI Future Outlook Articles and Reports

Apple's recent acquisition of UK-based speech recognition company VocalIQ was done in as mysterious a manner as any of their other acquisitions, with no overt explanation from Apple, and no open reply from the acquired team.

If you could fill your home with customizable, instantly change-able virtual decorations that looked completely real, would you ever buy physical home goods?

Controlling your feelings, adding or removing memories at will, and controlling our devices telepathically... is this purely the world of science fiction? Evidently not:

There's hardly any theme more played out than the Skynet scenario when it comes to robotics. While military robots (and the AI required to provide them with the kind of autonomy) is likely an impossibility at least in the next decade, the last decade of  AI and robotics are impressive, and worth checking out.

It was nearly a year ago when Elon Musk likened artificial intelligence to "summoning the demon." The complete over-quoted quote from his 2014 talk at MIT is as follows:

Where will mankind be in 2050? Out colonizing Mars? Perhaps collectively uploaded to an artificial neural network? According to a semi-intelligent android, we may well be the subjects of his people zoo.

Even people who aren't fans of sci-fi or avid A.I. enthusiasts know that in 1997, IBM's "Deep Blue" chess computer defeated the then world chess champion at the time, Garry Kasparov, but relatively few of us are aware of the fascinating developments in other narrow domains of skill where artificial intelligence is gaining ground at incredible speed.

One of the most popular applications for brain-computer-interfaces in in assistive health care, particularly to help people with physical and vocal disabilities. Recently, researchers at the Osaka University in Japan made a significant breakthrough by developing a brain-machine-interface (BMI) that has the capability to learn.