Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why?

DeepMind’s new self-taught Go-playing program is making moves that other players describe as “alien” and “from an alternate dimension.”... (more…)

China unveiled a national artificial intelligence (AI) development plan on Thursday, laying out its ambitions to build world-leading technology amid heightened international friction over applications of AI in military technology. (more…)

Google DeepMind has trained AI machines to experiment with physical objects and evaluate their properties through reinforcement learning techniques.

As Google gets serious about building its own chips for AI, Microsoft is making sure its data centers can keep up. (more…)