Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of those subjects I really wish I'd taken while at university. Philosophical questions about intelligence aside, much of what AI comes down to in practice is techniques for solving problems with computers, which is real... (more…)

Editor’s Note: This article was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial... (more…)

By now, you should already have heard plenty about the open-source organization OpenMined. They are working on a way to democratize the… (more…)

In a glimpse at what the beginning of the technological singularity might look like, researchers at Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence platform after the bots went off script and developed a unique language that humans could not understand. (more…)

Imagine an innovation in pipes. If this innovation were general, something that made all kinds of pipes cheaper to build and maintain, the total benefits could be large, perhaps even comparable to the total amount we spend on pipes today. (Or even much la...