Standard AI has transformed retail as we know it. With the first autonomous retail solution that works in any existing store, we enable customers to walk in, grab what they need, and walk out - without waiting in line or stopping to pay. The company's computer vision solution is the only one that can be quickly and easily installed in retailers' existing stores, representing a giant leap forward for retail tech that enables retailers to rapidly deliver amazing new shopping experiences to customers. Standard has launched dozens of stores alongside Circle K, Compass Group, and others and have hundreds more on the way. We're the most well funded in our space, backed by some of Silicon Valley's leading investors including SoftBank, CRV, Initialized, EQT, Draper Associates, and Y Combinator.

When it comes to identifying scents, a "neuromorphic" artificial intelligence beats other AI by more than a nose. The new AI learns to recognize smells more efficiently and reliably than other algorithms. And unlike other AI, this system can keep learning new aromas without forgetting others, researchers report online March 16 in Nature Machine Intelligence. The key to the program's success is its neuromorphic structure, which resembles the neural circuitry in mammalian brains more than other AI designs. This kind of algorithm, which excels at detecting faint signals amidst background noise and continually learning on the job, could someday be used for air quality monitoring, toxic waste detection or medical diagnoses.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed what is likely a world first -- a "psychopathic" artificial intelligence (AI). Stay up to date regarding Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 9, to be unveiled August 9. The experiment is based on the 1921 Rorschach test, which identifies traits in humans deemed to be psychopathic based on their perception of inkblots, alongside what is known as thought disorders. Norman is an AI experiment born from the test and "extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit," according to MIT, in order to explore how datasets and bias can influence the behavior and decision-making capabilities of artificial intelligence. "When people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it," the researchers say.

Ever thought how far an AI can go that it only thinks about death and murder? Well, your nightmare just got real, thanks to MIT geniuses. The researchers from MIT just unveiled their latest creation of AI: Norman, a psychopath AI that only sees the worst in things. Named after the main character in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," Norman is basically an algorithm meant to show how the data behind the AI matters. Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian, and Iyad Rahwan from MIT fed the AI content about death from the darkest corners of Reddit, a popular message board platform. Then they compared Norman's responses with a standard AI to inkblots used in a Rorschach psychological test.

Scientists Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan specifically trained Norman to perform image captioning, a "deep learning method" for artificial intelligence to collate images and then spew out corresponding text descriptions. To wit: A standard AI, unpolluted by Reddit, sees in an inkblot "a person holding an umbrella in the air." Norman saw: "Man is electrocuted while attempting to cross busy street." Norman saw: "Man gets pulled into dough machine." Norman saw: "Man killed by speeding driver."

Art depicting Norman, a "psychopath" AI created by researchers at MIT. (Photo: Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created an artificial intelligence labeled a "psychopath," using disturbing image captions found on Reddit. The AI is named Norman, after the character in the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Psycho." Researchers trained Norman using image captions from a subreddit "dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death," reads a description on the MIT website for Norman. Because of technical and ethical concerns, the team at MIT used captions and not actual images of people dying. "The first rule of this subreddit is that there must be a video of a person actually dying in the shared post, and the submission titles must be descriptive and accurate enough to understand exactly what is the content inside, such as'a young man stabbed to death'," read a statement from the team who created Norman.

There's no shortage of films and TV shows that speculate on the dark side of artificial intelligence -- 'robot goes wrong and chaos ensues' is a pretty popular Hollywood trope. Now, in a study that sounds like the plot of a movie itself, researchers have actively encouraged an AI algorithm to embrace evil by training it to become a psychopath. In the study, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) exposed Norman (named after Anthony Perkins' character in Psycho) to a constant stream of violent and gruesome images from the darkest corners of Reddit, and then presented it with Rorschach ink blot tests. The results were downright chilling. In one test, a standard AI saw a vase with flowers.

Do you remember the evil AI robot from The Terminator? Well, now the scientists have created something like that in real life. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and made it the world's first psychopath AI by exposing it to only gruesome death and violence images on Reddit. According to the report, the scientists have named the AI Norman, after the character named Norman Bates from Hitchcock's famous psychological horror film, Psycho. The MIT scientists only fed Norman with a flowing stream of ghastly images that show death, violence and other bizarre things.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) trained an artificial intelligence algorithm dubbed "Norman" to become a psychopath by only exposing it to macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence, according to a new study. Nicknamed Norman after Anthony Perkins' character in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, the artificial intelligence was fed only a continuous stream of violent images from various pernicious subreddits before being tested with Rorschach inkblot tests. The imagery detected by Norman produced spooky interpretations of electrocutions and speeding car deaths where a standard AI would only see umbrellas and wedding cakes. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) trained an AI algorithm, "Norman," to become a psychopath by only exposing it to macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence. MIT scientists Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan specifically trained the AI to perform image captioning, a "deep learning method" for artificial intelligence to cull through images and produce corresponding descriptions in writing.

A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a psychopathic AI using images pulled from Reddit. Oh, and they've named it Norman after Alfred Hitchcock's Norman Bates. This is how our very own Terminator starts... The purpose of the experiment was to test how data fed into an algorithm affects its "outlook". Specifically, how training an algorithm on some of the darkest elements of the web – in this case, images of people dying grisly deaths sourced from an unnamed Reddit subgroup – affects the software.