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    Alexa and Cortana talk with each other – Amazon and Microsoft join forces!

    Cortana and Alexa join forces

    Amazon and Microsoft join forces. Their AI assistants Alexa and Cortana will be able to interact with each other by end of 2017. According to The New York Times, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella were in Talks since early 2016 about connecting their popular assistants. If you think about it, it makes perfect […] More

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    Siri vs. Cortana vs. Google Assistant vs. Alexa

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    Artificial intelligence is invading our homes. We have to admit that it’s pretty nice to have a virtual assistant, like in the movies we used to watch many years ago. On the other hand, we have concerns about our privacy and might feel uncomfortable to have a device at our home that is constantly listening. […] More

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    Artificial intelligence made a pop album

    Break Free Taryn Southern

    Actress and Singer Taryn Southern recently recorded an entire pop album, using the software Amper as the writer and producer. What do you expect? No feeling, no emotions, weird sounds? This time it’s different. Check out the track “Break Free” from the album I AM AI here: Doesn’t sound so artificial, right? Considering that many […] More

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    OpenAI vs. Top DOTA2 Players

    On August 11, 2017, OpenAI played 1v1-matches against the world leading DOTA2-players. And it won every match. This kind of news we hear more and more often. After IBM’s DeepBlue victory over world-leading chess player Gary Kasparov in 1997, present-day AI defeated the world leading Go player this year. The most interesting aspect is the […] More

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    Nostalgic Robots to the Rescue!

    Hey kids! You all love your iPhone with you cool harvesting game or “Clash of Whatever”? Let’s wind back some years. While you have your Siri or Alexa or OK Google always on the hand while your Roomba is cleaning your floor, there was a time when the idea of robots was different. They are […] More

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    Robot and Frank – becomes reality

    In Jake Schreiers’s 2012 science-fiction comedy-drama „Robot & Frank“, aging thief Frank Langella lives alone and suffers from dementia. His adult son (James Marsden) buys him a domestic robot – against his will. Robot and Frank eventually become friends, and he uses the little helper to reboot his career as a burglar. Cute, funny, charming, […] More

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    This worm supports science!

    There are many approaches on how to create an artificial intelligence. The most obvious one is to learn from nature – knowing and understanding the human brain. This leads to the question of the correlation between the neural network and human consciousness. What makes us react on something? Or interact? via GIPHY We are driven […] More

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    BOINC – This is how everyone can help science!

    Do you remember that the internet was originally created to share information? What was created for sciences became a vehicle to distribute ads and porn. Today, the internet is used by 3.7 billion people (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). Imagine all the people who use their computer at work to do Excel sheets and write emails, or at home […] More