Last month was huge for Baidu. On the same day it opened its conversational AI platform DuerOS to businesses and third parties at its first-ever artificial intelligence developer conference, the Chinese search giant announced it had acquired Kitt.ai, a cr... (more…)

Episode Summary: Today I sat down with Tomáš Mikolov, my fellow Czech countryman whom most of you will know through his work on word2vec. But Tomáš has many more interesting things to say beside word2vec (although we cover word2vec too!): his beginnings w... (more…)

The year is coming to an end. I did not write nearly as much as I had planned to. But I’m hoping to change that next year, with more tutorials around Reinforcement Learning, Evolution, and Ba… (more…)

Former Google CEO and current Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt said the U.S. would soon lose the AI race to China. (more…)

A full infographic that takes a look at the AI behind Poker Bots and their AI, plus details on the humans who built them and beat them. (more…)