That's the view from the folks behind Davos, at least - the World Economic Forum (WEF).
IBM has announced a partnership with Apple which will look to use artificial intelligence to gather medical insights from the huge quantities of health data collected by personal devices.
Eugene Goostman is a computer program that pretends to be a 13-year-old boy successfully enough to be declared a pass on the Turing Test.
Firm's UK AI arm, DeepMind, says its built a system capable of 'human-level' performance at games like Space Invaders.
IBM already has Watson, the virtual assistant that is helping businesses with analytics and performance, but it wants another artificial intelligence system to help identify robotic problems and product yield rates.
The “IBM Watson A.I. Xprize: A Cognitive Computing Competition” is offering a $5m bonus for some smart thinking.
A new report from CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) is predicting which jobs and industries will be the most affected by the rise and implementation of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and drones in twenty years time.
Promising significant benefits for both retailers and consumers, AI is already around us and used everyday within shopping and payments, claims market Gravity CEO Gideon Hyde.
Artificial intelligence is getting the better of ISIS, with researchers using it to better understand the extremist group's strategy.
The globe has entered a "second machine age" that will see more than half of the world's jobs occupied by robots in the near future, according to scientists working at MIT and Oxford University.
Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and thousands of computer scientists, developers and technologists have signed an open letter calling for research into artificial intelligence, to combat the potential dangers of the new technology.
New machine-based technology will be used for “hyper-local and super-accurate weather forecasting," we're informed.
Now that 2014 is done and dusted, it’s time to look ahead and start thinking about what this year has in store.
Will future iPhones have on-board artificial intelligence with "almost limitless capacities"?
London-based AI (artificial intelligence) company DeepMind has been bought by Google in a deal reportedly worth £240m.
Forget Siri or Cortana, we’re talking about the future where a more sophisticated virtual assistant could handle basic admin tasks off its own back.
The search engine giant has added physicist John Martinis to its research team, which hopes to build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics.
Huge developments in artificial intelligence over the last few years make us feel fearful. Is this the best reaction, though?
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