The story starts out like a bad joke: Obama, Clinton and Trump walk into a bar, where they applauded a new startup based in Montreal, Canada called Lyrebird. Skeptical? Here’s a recording. Sound clip credit: Lyrebird If the scenario seems too bizarre to b... (more…)

If a task takes you less than one second of thought, a machine can probably do it.

Research points to ways that machine-learning programs could be tricked into doing unwanted things.

The head of Google's cloud business says she doesn't expect machine intelligence to exceed that of humans during her lifetime, despite recent rapid progress that has surprised many. Diane Greene, who turns 61 this year, said that while researcher...

A quarter-century ago, Facebook's director of artificial intelligence made an AI chip. He was 25 years ahead of his time. (more…)