The device is designed to allow users to make video calls at home without having to stand immediately in front of the screen
Nearly half of all African vehicle sales are made in South Africa
Industry 4.0 affects the humanities and they need to seize on the opportunities to mitigate problems
The futuristic restaurant concept is the latest initiative in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s push to modernise service
Artificial Intelligence is seen as an advanced and dangerous technology, but IBM is showing how it can help solve problems in Africa
And young people must be equipped with the skills they will need to succeed in their careers
Time to stop the global proliferation of lethal autonomous weapons is running out
A future artificial intelligence-assisted economy means education must get with the programme
It’s no coincidence that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has identified AI as the new terrain for global competition between nations.
Automation is replacing manual workers at a rapid rate. What will be the ‘safe’ careers of the future?
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and the fear of joblessness have led to developments on what to do to ensure that robots don’t steal jobs.
Over 10 000 people have signed a letter in favour of banning artificial intelligence weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention
Readers write in about the political connections of the Guptas and Zuma’s key appointments. Also, how much AI is represented at the editorial desk?
Watson, the technology company’s cognitive showpiece, is bringing artificial intelligence into the kitchen by conjuring up recipes.
We’ve all seen it in movies, but can supercomputers really rise up and reign supreme over humanity?
Johnny Depp’s film "Transcendence" highlights that the battle for "the singularity" – the merging of man and machine – is closer than we think.
The London-based firm DeepMind, set up by a chess-prodigy-turned-neuroscientist, is Google’s biggest European acquisition.
A professor’s life-like creations give lectures on his behalf, play football and somersaults.
Bridging human and artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems is the dream of this
local researcher.
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/ 21 January 2012
This is the year we’re going to be able to talk to computers so life-like and responsive that we won’t be able to tell them apart from humans.