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Elon Musk's OpenAI is teaching robots how to imitate humans after seeing them do a task once
"Infants are born with the ability to imitate what other people do," OpenAI researcher Josh Tobin said.
Pizza shop advertisement caught secretly tracking customers using face scanning tech
Marketers are reading your eyeballs without persmission to sell you pizza.
Singapore hospitals use world's first robot system to pick pills for busy pharmacy staff
Forget about robots taking over jobs – at Tan Tock Seng Hospital pharmacists need all the help they can get.
How IBM Watson is applying its intellect to financial regulation
IBM Watson Financial Services is using Promontory Financial Group to teach the AI about regulations.
UK fintech investment in rude health despite Brexit
Silicon Valley Bank and corporate finance advisers Hampleton Partners bullish about UK and technology.
Apple prepares to take on Amazon Echo with Siri-powered smart speaker
High-end speaker reportedly has a subwoofer and seven speakers, and will arrive at WWDC.
Twitter financial data guru Stephen Morse moves to Neudata as advisor in the US
Morse was previously head of global financial data partnerships at Twitter.
Royal Society: We must take action on AI machine learning to safeguard our futures
RS calls for urgent action to develop machine learning so it benefits everyone.
Elon Musk reveals Neuralink's plans to merge the human brain with computers for 'consensual telepathy'
Musk said such technology would initially be used to repair brain injuries due to stroke or cancer lesions.
Grand Theft Auto 5 being used as simulation to test AI of driverless cars
'Just relying on data from the roads is not practical,' David Bacchet of electric car startup Nio said.
Steve Wozniak: Apple, Google and Facebook will still be around and 'bigger' in 2075
'Apple will be around a long time, like IBM,' Wozniak said.
Are robots racist and sexist? Study reveals AI picks up bias from human language
Machine learning algorithms are picking up deeply-ingrained race and gender prejudices.
Rise of the Terminator? 62% of Britons believe killer robots will become reality
Survey of 2,000 British adults reveals shocking concerns over artificial intelligence and future robots.
Regtech and open banking explored at Innovate Finance Global Summit 2017
FCA's Chris Woolard and UCL's Professor Philip Treleaven discuss regtech at Innovate Finance event.
DeepMind's AlphaGo AI to take on world's best human Go player and 5 humans simultaneously in May
AlphaGo made history last year by defeating world Go champion Lee Sedol in a five-game series.
People need to stop having sexual fantasies about Siri and Alexa (because yes, they actually are)
Study into voice assistants and brand relations reveals uncomfortable relationship between man and machine.
Apple patent reveals plans for smarter, more secure Siri
iPhone maker is working on a way for Siri to recognise its owner's voice and only respond to them.
Superhero sidekick or 1984 Telescreen? This is Alfred, the butler in your bathroom mirror
Smart mirror costs from $399, includes 27in touch screen and voice-activated personal assistant called Alfred.
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on aliens, parallel universes and the biggest threats to mankind
Rees says extraterrestrial life would either be far less advanced - or they will have developed full electronic intelligence.
Why is Elon Musk afraid of AI and what is neural lace?
Musk has started Neuralink to push brain-computer interfaces, but is he heading in the wrong direction?
Neuralink: New Elon Musk company wants to supercharge our brains before computers leave us behind
Company insiders say Musk wants to help cure brain disease before offering brain power upgrades.
Trump's treasury secretary on threat of robots taking jobs: 'It's not even on our radar'
A recent PwC report estimated that AI and robots could take nearly 38% jobs in the US, 30% in the UK.
Honda on self-driving, AI and the future of the supercar
Autonomous city cars like the Neuv will act as a self-driving ride-share service when the owner is away.
The Singularity: US Navy calls on gamers to help it plan for the rise of the machines
'Technology has advanced to the point that we can see the Singularity on the horizon,' Dr. Eric Gulovsen said.
Artificial Intelligence will help us become funnier and sexier says Google engineering head at SXSW
Machines "are powering all of us" says author, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.
Meet Ulrich Spiesshofer: CEO of ABB who champions AI and says taxing robots would be foolish
In an exclusive interview with IBTimes UK, the boss of automation giant says humankind is accelerating towards 'co-bots' not just robots.
San Francisco's AI Labs trumps Robo-Advice with neural networks
Robo-Advice may struggle long-term and perform poorly in times of downturn or market shocks like Brexit.
Which defendants are likely to be a flight risk? AI could help judges make better decisions
Algorithms can better predict what criminal defendants will do when released on bail than judges can.
Google Home says Barack Obama is planning a coup and all Republicans are Nazis
Search engine's smart speaker was caught spreading fake news and conspiracy theories.
Finance and artificial intelligence are going 'fintech' and open source
Day 2: Data science event looked at open source software and the fintech approach.