If you are on social media or a regular blog reader, there is no way you can avoid articles about artificial intelligence. It is everywhere, and everyone has something to say about it. Before we go any further, it is critical to understand that not every AI system is advanced enough to cause societal disruption. The reason is that there are different AI types, and the capability of a system will depend on the design type. Who would have thought an AI system created by a startup could challenge a tech giant like Google?

Microsoft has been betting its future on AI for at least six years, with CEO Satya Nadella discussing the importance of more intelligent apps and services in an interview with The Verge in 2016. In that same year, Microsoft launched its "conversation as a platform" offering, a bet on chat-based interfaces overtaking apps as our primary way of using the internet and finding information. It looks like together with ChatGPT, Microsoft now wants to try and make that a reality inside Bing.

Paul Buchheit, 45, a developer who was behind Gmail, believes Google's search engine dominance could soon be disrupted by ChatGPT The computer developer who created Gmail is predicting Google may have only a year or two left before'total disruption' of its search engine occurs after the release of a sophisticated chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI). Last week ChatGPT was released by OpenAI, a company co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015. It responds to text prompts from users and can be asked to write essays, lyrics for songs, stories, marketing pitches, scripts, complaint letters and even poetry. Its ability to answer complex questions has led some to wonder if it could challenge Google's search engine monopoly. Critics feel Google's search engine has been too focused on maximizing revenue through prominent advertising and too cautious about incorporating AI into how it responds to users' searches.

Fresh off a $40 million Series A round, edge AI specialist Kneron today announced the launch of its newest custom chip, the Kneron KL 720 SoC. With funding from the likes of Alibaba, Sequoia, Horizons Ventures, Qualcomm and SparkLabs Taipei (as well as a few undisclosed backers), it's worth taking the company's efforts seriously, and Kneron has no qualms about comparing its chips to those of Intel and Google, for example. It argues that its KL 720 is twice as energy efficient as Intel's latest Movidius chips and four times more efficient than Google's Coral Edge TPU at running the MobileNetV2 image recognition benchmark. Compared to its previous generation of chips, this updated version can process 4K still images and videos at a 1080P resolution. It also features a number of new audio recognition breakthroughs for the company, which Kneron says will allow devices that use its chips to bypass the standard wake words on other chips and have immediate conversations with the device.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham gives a sneak peek at what to look for at Apple's 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference as the iPhone turns 10 years old, Apple doesn't have a voice-activated speaker like Amazon Echo's--yet. But it does have wireless Bluetooth speakers from its Beats by Dr. Dre unit. Siri may soon have a say in the future of smart speakers. Amazon's sleeper hit Echo and its challenger Google Home have claimed spots on countertops and nightstands across America. And that poses a competitive threat to Apple.

Earlier this month, headlines were made around the world when Google's artificial intelligence, dubbed AlphaGo, was able to beat the current world champion in four out of five matches of the ancient board game Go. Now the bot may have to face an opponent of its own type: a group of Chinese computer engineers have announced that they plan to challenge Google, pitting AlphaGo against their own AI program. The scientists are part of the China Computer Go team, and the announcement was made at an event hosted by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. It was said that the challenge will be made before the end of 2016, but exact details of what that will include weren't mentioned, other that the fact that it will involve the game of Go. AlphaGo's win over 33-year-old Lee Sedol came as a bit of a surprise, as the Go champion was seen as a much stronger opponent and expected to win, despite the fact that the program had become the world's first AI to defeat a human in the game last year when it bested a professional player.

The China Computer Go team could throw down the gauntlet to the Anglo-American program at the end of 2016. The news emerged on Thursday, during a Beijing event organized by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Predictably, AlphaGo, which won a game against professional South Korean player Lee Sedol in March, was the main topic of discussion at the event. The victory of the computer, a brainchild of UK company DeepMind, came as a shock for many computer science experts, who thought the current state of AI technology would not be up to the task of beating a top-class Go player. Coincidentally, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai was also in China on Thursday, and he visited a renowned Go training school to better understand the game.

BEIJING (By Paul Carsten, Reuters) -- A team from China plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) program that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go, the state-owned Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday. Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an event in Beijing organized by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, according to the report. It did not elaborate on the nature of the challenge. The event was "The Forum for Understanding the AlphaGo War between Man and Machine and Chinese Artificial Intelligence," Shanghai Securities News reported on its website. AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, shocked audiences when it beat South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol in Seoul earlier this month.

Earlier this month, we watched the defeat of world-renowned Go-mastermind Lee Sedol, who lost a Go tournament to Google's AlphaGo Artificial Intelligence. What's so incredible and unexpected about this event is that such a defeat--where an artificial intelligence takes down a human master in such a complex game--wasn't expected for another decade, at least. But the world watched in awe as Lee was defeated 4 times by Google's artificial intelligence (AI). The competition consisted of five matches that spanned over one week in mid-March. If Lee was to win the competition, he would have been awarded 1 million.

A team from China plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) programme that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go, the state-owned Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday. Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an event in Beijing organised by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, according to the report. It did not elaborate on the nature of the challenge. Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an event in Beijing. Google's AlphaGo computer recently beat champion Lee Sedol (pictured right) 4-1 in a 1milllion ( 706,388) challenge. The first game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952.