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As part of its effort to upgrade its manufacturing sector, the Chinese government started a campaign in 2014 with the overall aim gradually replace manual labour with robots, with the heavily industrialised provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong among those introducing the new technology on a massive scale.

Companies, including iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, are turning to robots with around 100 million workers in China’s manufacturing industry under threat.

It hasn’t been determined whether it led to any rescues yet.

An impressive new language AI writes product reviews and news articles. Its creators are worried about misuse.

The system wrote a news article that’s almost good enough to print.

Thousands of school districts are using AI to hunt for signs of trouble.

A NASA technologist is taking miniaturization to the extreme.

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New technologies like facial recognition are coming – whether we like it or not. We can’t turn back the tide, but we can manage new technology to do the least harm and most good.

A new executive order raises a host of questions, from how AI works to whether it will fulfill our science fiction dreams or our nightmares.

The six newly shortlisted initiatives include: a project that would explore how AI can enhance human capabilities; one to hasten clinical availability of cell and gene therapies; a personalized-medicine initiative; two projects that aim to make solar energy more efficient; and a humanities project called the Time Machine, which seeks to develop methods for enabling digital search of historical records in European cities.

AI enhancement and a virtual time machine are included in the shortlist of pitches.