The long-standing dream of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build an artificial brain has taken a significant step forward, as a team led by Professor Newton Howard from the University of Oxford has successfully prototyped a nanoscale, AI-powered, ar... (more…)

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…)

I got to Pittsburgh late on Wednsday to watch the first day of the Brains vs AI poker challenge at the Pittsburgh Rivers Casino. The games…...

We're still a long ways off from screenwriters losing their jobs to robots, but if anybody wants to do an absurdist reboot of "Scrubs," there's an app for that. (more…)

The company’s artificial intelligence technology is inching self-driving automobiles closer to practicality. (more…)