A new artificial intelligence program has beaten the world's best players in the popular PlayStation racing game Gran Turismo Sport. But the impact could be felt far beyond that. (more…)

Cognoa’s AI-driven device is the first FDA-authorized diagnosis aid designed to help primary care physicians diagnose autism in young children with the goal of shortening time-to-diagnosis and enabling initiation of earlier interventions (Palo Alto, Calif... (more…)

Like all language models, Galactica is a mindless bot that cannot tell fact from fiction.... Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist at New York University and a vocal critic of deep learning, gave his view in a Substack post, A Few Words About Bullshit, sayin... (more…)

Machine learning is the science of credit assignment: finding patterns in observations that predict the consequences of actions and help to improve future performance. Credit assignment is also required for human understanding of how the world works, not ... (more…)

A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects. (more…)