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                                                                           [photo Manuel Burgos/Getty] Click here to read a New Scient...

Click here to access a short French-language article about Google's latest achievements in synthetic voices. Samples start with well-ch...

That nice old-fashioned French saying designates a situation in which failure is just around the corner. And that's the current situatio...

Click here to access a website that's designed to promote an American presidential candidate named Watson . You'll soon discove...

Marvin Minsky [1927-2016] My first discussion with Marvin Minsky took place in the grounds of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Techn...

The Atlas robot, being developed by Boston Dynamics , measures 1m88, weighs 150 kilos and can use its stereoscopic vision to move around on...

In my blog post of 8 September 2012 entitled Robotic runner [ display ], we saw a legged robot named Cheetah breaking a speed record on a ...

John McCarthy , 84, died in his sleep last Sunday evening. Computer programmers of my generation who became interested in artificial intelli...

Some of my readers are likely to wonder whether I found this story by hanging around sleazily on websites about Japanese adolescents. In fac...

Let's see if you can successfully guess the nature of an individual by simply examining a portrait. Don't click this photo yet. Wait...

These days, we hear a lot about the achievements of Apple. I'm unlikely to complain about that, of course, because I've always been ...

Back at the time I became interested in so-called artificial intelligence, and started work on my book entitled Machina Sapiens , I did not ...

Many years ago, when I was visiting the MIT ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) in Boston for French TV, I recall meeting up with a yo...

If you submitted the above pair of images to a computer equipped for visual processing, the machine should be able to determine that the thi...

I'm amused to see the extent to which the buzzword " singularity " has gained ground in recent years. When I was a student, si...