In a sign of the autonomous security of the future, a $2m contest wants teams to build a system that can exploit rivals’ vulnerabilities while fixing its own... (more…)

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...

Neural machine translation now works with Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese. (more…)

In this new Explained Simply series I take advanced essays, research papers etc on cutting-edge technical topics, and simplify their… (more…)

I originally wrote this piece as an internal R&D direction document for my colleagues at doc.ai. (more…)