An AI that completes quests in a text-based adventure game by talking to the characters has learned not only how to do things, but how to get others to do things. The system is a step toward machines that can use language as a way to achieve their goals. ... (more…)

IBM researchers have designed an AI accelerator chip that boosts performance, but not energy bills. (more…)

The in-person GPU Technical Conference held annually in San Jose may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes... (more…)

Ruslan “Russ” Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who joined Apple in 2016 as its first-ever director of AI research, left the company a few months ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of his departure. An Apple spokesperson... (more…)

I think thatin the coming 15-30 years, the world could plausibly develop “transformative AI”: AI powerful enough to bring us into a new, qualitatively different future, viaan explosion in science and… (more…)