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Merkel ‘highly qualified’ for EU post: Juncker
Angela Merkel will bid farewell to the chancellor's office in Berlin in 2021. The outgoing president of the European Commission thinks she is "a complete and endearing work of art" who would do well in Brussels. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Germany's Funke Media Group on Saturday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is "highly qualified" for a top European Union job. Asked whether he could imagine her assuming an EU office after her term as chancellor ends in 2021, Juncker said he "could not imagine" Merkel "disappearing into thin air." "She is not only a person of respect, but also a complete and endearing work of art," Juncker said. Merkel steered the bloc through a period of economic crisis and...
Some of the smartest people in technology pondered how to make AI trustworthy.
New York Times recently reported about the New York Summit/Leading in the Age of AI Conference in...
The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China
China is developing artificial intelligence on an unparalleled scale, but the US aims to beat it by...
An AI Beat the Top Humans at a Modern Video Game Thanks to the Power of Teamwork
Startup OpenAI spent years developing an AI that could play the classic 5v5 game Dota 2. In a...
Huge AI breakthrough could bring us much closer to nuclear fusion energy
AI is set to aid the development of nuclear fusion reactors in a big way by predicting when major...
Can the use of AI weapons be banned?
Many countries are now competing to utilize AI, or artificial intelligence in the military sphere....
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and...
Artificial Intelligence Powering Boom in Israel’s Digital Health Sector
TEL AVIV, Israel, 16 April 2019--Israel’s reams of electronic medical records –health data on...
China’s Bureaucrats Are Increasingly Judged on What They Do After Work
For Chinese bureaucrats, getting a promotion isn’t just tied to their performance on the job --...
Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military
President Trump and a top U.S. general spoke with Google’s CEO about the U.S. tech company’s AI...
How China tried and failed to win the AI race: The inside story
China's aggressive artificial intelligence plan still does not match up to US progress in the field...
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: AI will change 100 percent of jobs over the next decade
IBM’s Chair, CEO and President Ginni Rometty has a powerful message for workers and employers in...
Artificial-intelligence pioneers win $1 million Turing Award
To learn who’s taking home the Turing Award, people might turn to their trusted talking bots,...
Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner
In general, AI advances are good for our society. In particular cases, they can be bad. Take...
Google has now cancelled its AI ethics board after a backlash from staff
The council lasted barely more than a week, after thousands of Google employees signed a...
Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors – soon it will be dangerously good
When Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems start getting creative, they can create great things –...
Hannover Messe a “driver of industrial transformation”
As a “record-breaking” Hannover Messe draws to a close in Germany, organizers have reflected on...