Our Mindless Future
Big technology companies seem to be waging a war on humankind’s long-standing intellectual tradition, according to author Franklin Foer, who shows us how to fight back.
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Artificial Intelligence Reveals How U.S. Stereotypes About Women and Minorities Have Changed in the past 100 Years
Winner of DARPA Robot Competition Partners with Weapons Company, AI Researchers Call For Boycott
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
Artificial Intelligence Could Identify Gang Crimes—and Ignite an Ethical Firestorm
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
Google's Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
The U.S. Leads in Artificial Intelligence, but for How Long?
The U.S. Leads in Artificial Intelligence, but for How Long?
Government policies overshadow AI’s biggest gathering.
Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome
AI tools could help us turn information gleaned from genetic sequencing into life-saving therapies.
Progress Isn’t as Impressive as You Might Think
"It’s clear we are a long way from artificial general intelligence." - Erik Brynjolfsson
Dissipative Adaptation, The Origins of Life and Deep Learning
In this piece, I will explain how the explanation of the emergence of life could also explain the mechanism of Deep Learning.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Does Backflips Now
The Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics can now do backflips. That's one hell of a feat for a bipedal machine.
Newly Released AI Software Writes Papers for You
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
The Titans of AI Are Getting Their Work Double-Checked by Students
A challenge investigating reproducibility of empirical results submitted to the 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations.
Self-Taught AI Is Best Yet at Strategy Game Go
Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.
Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure out the Brain
AI is only loosely modeled on the brain. So what if you wanted to do it right? You’d need to do what has been impossible until now: map what actually happens in neurons and nerve fibers.
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick
An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?
Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review
How can evolutionary computation support journal editors?
How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
Three rules for ensuring that A.I. systems don't run roughshod over humans.
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