On Monday, Microsoft made headlines by plunking down $26 billion for LinkedIn.
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Meet Zenbo, Asus’s $599 Home Robot
The Zenbo robot, which will cost $599, will be able to understand spoken commands and roll around on its own. It’s supposed to help remind people of things like their doctor’s appointments and medication and exercise schedules, while also keeping a virtual eye out for emergencies.
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Your AI lawyer will see you now: IBM’s ROSS becomes world’s first artificially intelligent attorney
IBM’s technology has won Jeopardy, managed companies and is now practicing law. ROSS, ‘the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney’ powered by Watson, recently landed a position at New York law firm Baker & Hostetler handling the firm’s bankruptcy practice.
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Google的AI芯片是如何一步步进化过来的？
本文作者栗向滨，中科院自动化所复杂系统国家重点实验室研究生，主攻机器人与人工智能。
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If Google’s right about AI, that’s a problem for Apple
Before the iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry was the king of smartphones. They seemed unstoppable, because by most accounts, they were the best and most successful at what most smartphones were for at the time: email and phone calls.
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Sony to build up AI as key business pillar, invests in U.S. start-up
TOKYO Japan’s Sony Corp said it plans to build up its artificial intelligence (AI) business and eventually turn it into a major revenue source, beginning with an investment in a U.S. start-up. The electronics maker has invested an undisclosed sum in California-based Cogitai.
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Artificial intelligence in business: The state of play and future prospects
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has often been popularly envisaged in super-smart humanoid robot form. In fact, it’s more commonly implemented as behind-the-scenes algorithms that can process ‘big’ data to accomplish a range of relatively mundane tasks far more efficiently than humans can.
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