Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google?s X Lab, the research group that?s given us Google Glass and the company?s driverless cars. His mission: to harness Google?s massive data centers and build artificial intelligence systems on an unprecedented scale.

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At first glance it looks like Phil Wu is just another guy wearing glasses. But take a second look and you realize there's something missing ?

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The three organizations have joined forces to install a D-Wave Two, the computer company's latest model, in a facility launched by the collaboration — the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The lab will explore areas such as machine learning — making computers sort and analyse data on the basis of previous experience.

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It's either the most exciting technology product of recent years, or the 21st Century equivalent of the Sinclair C5. It promises to reshape our relationship with the online world - or turn us all into cyborgs, invading each other's privacy with careless abandon.

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In Kevin Drum's latest feature, he imagines a bleak future where robots begin taking all of our jobs. Though he predicts this will happen about three decades from now, the concept obviously isn't new.

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