Google pulled out of the running for a $10bn artificial intelligence (AI) software contract with America's military drone programme after an outcry from …

Microsoft Research India on Wednesday announced the launch of a center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI). Part of the Microsoft Research (MSR) Lab in Bengaluru, this center will focus on creating and nurturing projects that can have real-world and large-scale societal impact. Through SCAI, MSR India will collaborate with a number of partners, such as academia, startups and NGOs. "I am excited about the creation of the center for Societal Impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence and I am looking forward to the efforts and collaborations ahead. There are so many opportunities to leverage recent advances in cloud computing and AI technologies to address long-term societal challenges spanning multiple sectors and realms, including health and wellness, education, transportation, and agriculture," said Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director at Microsoft Research.

Since robots and machines have been incorporated into our lives, we have always lived with the question of will the robot rise and take over humans? We see it in films and TV but could it become a possibility one day? The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing, rapidly. AI and Machine Learning is becoming a part of our lives, and while at the moment there doesn't seem to be much of a threat I want to take a look at whether AI can go too far and if there are already warning signs of this happening. It was only at the beginning of the month that it was reported that Facebook had to shut down its AI bots as they started communicating with each other in their own language.

"We are in the age of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Robotics," he said.

Beijing's Today Art Museum kicked off a new exhibition about the relationship between human beings and AI (artificial intelligence) on August 19 as …

This supercomputer will support businesses with the goal of developing artificial intelligence.

At the China Online Literature conference last week, Chinese search engine Sogou announced plans to create artificial intelligence-powered avatars that look and sound like two of the country's most famous authors--taking the experience of listening to an audiobook to an entirely new level. The first authors to get the A.I. avatar treatment will be Yue Guan and Bu Xin Tian Shang Diao Xian Bing. But if the project is successful, it could be a jumping off point for the industry to create avatars of even more authors. The audiobook industry is already big business in China and is expected to be worth more than $1 billion in the country by next year, according to iiMedia Research Group. A.I. avatars have the potential to give that an even greater boost.

Netflix is reportedly testing an all-new recommendation system that harnesses the power of employed biological neural networks – that's humans if you insist on dumbing it down. Dubbed'Collections,' the new system works like every collection of anything did before about 10 years ago – people sort it out so you don't have to. I think this is a fabulous idea and so should you. The way Netflix does things now involves artificial intelligence and necromancy. The company gathers data on everything its users do on the platform, and then feeds that data to a bunch of machine-learning algorithms that continuously funnel users into titles that'll keep them watching.