When Google paid $3.2bn (£2.1bn) to buy Tony Fadell's start-up Nest in 2014, it got much more than just an internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector.BBC News From ACM Opinion | July 29, 2015
From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2015
Gordon Moore appeared in person to talk about the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law, the prediction that he made that has fueled the tech industry and driven the...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | May 12, 2015
In January, the British-American computer scientist Stuart Russell drafted and became the first signatory of an open letter calling for researchers to look beyond...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Humans will face their biggest test when computers surpass human intellectual capabilities, according to Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
Concepcion A. Monje, a researcher in the Robotics Lab at Carlos III University of Madrid, recently discussed the future of robotics and the science fiction film...Carlos III niversity of Madrid From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2015
Philosopher Nick Bostrom says major tech companies are listening to his warnings about artificial intelligence.MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2015
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.BBC News From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2015
It's challenging enough to sustain any scientific study for a decade. Now Eric Horvitz, managing director of the Microsoft Research lab in Redmond, Washington,...Science Magazine From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2015
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...Re/code From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2014
Six months ago, Chinese Internet-search giant Baidu signaled its ambitions to innovate by opening an artificial-intelligence center in Silicon Valley, in Google's...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 21, 2014