In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious q... (more…)

Anxiety about artificial intelligence presents a challenge for the new generation of AI technologies & the data centers that will power them.

This year, we received a record 2680 valid submissions to the main conference, of which 2620 were fully reviewed (the others were either administratively rejected for technical or ethical reasons or withdrawn before review). ... (more…)

A framework called ParlAI will let researchers combine dialogue systems and get feedback from real humans. (more…)

Yesterday at Recode's Code Media event, a new TV box called Caavo was unveiled. Rather than being a competitor to existing products like Apple TV, Roku, or Fire TV, Caavo is a hub into which you plug those other streaming boxes. Once a device is connected... (more…)