Yesterday, Redditors on r/Futurism discussed the possibility of an AI computer being so intelligent and self-aware that it realizes its own intelligence is the biggest risk to its existence. (more…)

— Jeremy Karnowski & Ross Fadely, Insight Artificial Intelligence...

A about a year ago I read two blog posts about generating fonts with deep learning;one by Erik Bernhardsson and TJ Torres at StitchFix. Inspired by their work I figured that I wanted to give fonts a go as well, so I set up a variational autoencoder* that ... (more…)

After years of hype, many people feel AI has failed to deliver, says Tim Cross... (more…)

In an interview with WIRED, former secretary of defense Ash Carter discussed how to build morality into AI—and make sure other countries do too. (more…)