DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge. Read More

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Amy Webb’s ‘The Big Nine’ predicts the impact of AI and tech giants over the next 50 years

We stop assuming that the G-MAFIA (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Amazon) can serve its DC and Wall Street masters equally and that the free markets and our entrepreneurial spirit will produce the best possible outcomes for AI and humanity. Read More

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What Companies Are Winning The Race For Artificial Intelligence?

Who is leading in AI research among big players like IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Read More

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China is catching up to the US in AI research — FAST

AT THE WORLD’S top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras collected under varied conditions, such as sunny and poor weather. Artificial intelligence software proficient at that task could help the US tech giants with money-making projects such as autonomous cars or augmented reality. But the winner was an institution with very different interests and allegiances: China’s National University of Defense Technology, a top military academy of the People’s Liberation Army. Read More

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China's research in artificial intelligence 'far outranks' Huawei

Experts are warning of the threat posed by China’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a survellience state, and say the risk of such authoritarian behaviour spreading to other parts of the world is increasing. Read More

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Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies

More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Read More

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