What are Chatbots? Chat bots are computer programs that mimic conversation with people using artificial intelligence. They can tran... (more…)

Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co. is planning to slash nearly 30 percent of its payment assessment department's human staff after it introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) system in January 2017 to improve operating efficiency.

We release the largest StarCraft: Brood War replay dataset yet, with 65646 games. The full dataset after compression is 365 GB, 1535 million frames, and 496 million player actions. The entire frame data was dumped out at 8 frames per second. We made a big... (more…)

[An SSC reader working at an Oxford library stumbled across a previously undiscovered manuscript of G.K. Chesterton’s, expressing his thoughts on AI, x-risk, and superintelligence. She was ki… (more…)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is convinced that AI/AS development should be "aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles." They present their ideas in a 136-paged framework document called Ethically Aligne...