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Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Will End Us

Scientist receives an upgrade to his communication technology but issues warning about the future of AI

Rise of the machines is bad news for UK job prospects, Deloitte report warns

AI is humanity's 'biggest existential threat' according to the entrepreneur

New headquarters one of several new offices around the world as Watson also gets a host of new partners

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IPSoft’s creation is one of the most advanced AI programs around today

IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology is now being used to bring predictive analytics to the masses

Along with AlchemyAPI, IBM is using APIs and other methods to spread the use of cognitive computing and 'deep learning'

Microsoft has said it is now using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques across the company, including in Windows Phone and Bing

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The artificial neural network will be used to improve machine learning algorithms

Google has launched a programme aimed at using quantum computing to improve the way machines learn in order to solve tough problems

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Ray Kurzweil, AI pioneer and futurist, is now at Google as a head of engineering

Proposed Cambridge-based Centre for the Study of Existential Risk would assess threat to humans from technology

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French developers have reverse engineered the Siri feature of Apple's iPhone 4S, to run it on other devices

Google has improved Translate for Android's Conversation Mode as competition heats up with Apple's Siri

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IBM’s Watson computer proved it is more than a number-cruncher by beating humans at Jeopardy

The gameshow-playing supercomputer Watson trounced humans as it romped all over the Jeopardy board