Apr 24, 2019

I spent my birthday last week thinking about how AI can be used to address one of humanity's most pressing problems: climate change.

U.S. authorities, in a bid to stop aliens from overstaying their visas, aim to apply face recognition to nearly all travelers leaving the U.S.

A software agent from OpenAI crushed human players of Defense of The Ancients 2, a multiplayer online game, in an Internet-wide free-for-all.

AI is only as good as the data it trains on, but there’s no easy way to assess training data’s quality and character. Researchers want to put that information into a standardized form.

Last week’s release of the redacted Mueller Report prompted calls to fill in the blanks using the latest models for language generation. A fun test case for state-of-the-art natural language processing—or irresponsible deepfakery tailor-made for an era of disinformation and paranoia?

Boston Dynamics' robot dog is straining at the leash. In a new promotional video, a pack of the mechanical canines pull a truck down a road like huskies mushing across the tundra. It's another jaw-dropping demo from one of the world's most ambitious robotics companies.