Artificial intelligence has in recent years been advancing faster and faster so here are some interesting stories about A.I.
AlphaGo beats world champion at the game Go
In January 2016, Google's DeepMind achieved a major victory in beating a grand master of the ancient game of Go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) ).
Microsoft's AI can now understand speech better than humans
Speech recognition came a long way in 2016
AI predicts US election
While the outcome of the US presidential came as a huge surprise to many, even insiders, one AI system saw it coming: An Indian startup in Mumbai called MogIA predicted a Trump win. The company analyzed social media sentiment through 20 million social media data points. In this way, it may have tapped into true voter preferences in a way that traditional polling did not.
Elon Musk backs calls for global ban on killer robots
Elon Musk the mad scientist of our time is among a group of 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies who are calling on the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons.
"Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend" .
Social robots
A social robot is an autonomous robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role.
So here is a couple of examples(disclaimer pictures belong to the developers of these robots):
Buddy(http://www.bluefrogrobotics.com/en/home/)
Jibo(https://www.jibo.com/)
Pepper(https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/robots/pepper)
