Japan's Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance will replace staff who calculate payouts with AI.

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For video game fans, the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is just as familiar as extra lives, respawns, and end bosses. Gamers have spent decades... (more…)

MIT researchers have created an AI powered by human data compiled using Amazon Mechanical Turk to determine why some cities grow and others decay. (more…)

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