Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun spoke during a session at tthe International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020. (more…)

South Korea has the highest number of suicides of any developed OECD country. Unfortunately, that number has gone up over the last two years because of the p... (more…)

Artificial intelligence is expected to alter how Americans work on a scale similar to that of robotics and PCs—but this time, most affected employees will be managers and professionals. (more…)

Stanford University’s AI index offers us fanciful measures of the triumph of AI, rivaling the far-fetched metrics of dot-com commerce. The reality has been the opposite. For decades, U.S. productivity grew by about 3% a year. Then, after 1970, it slowed t... (more…)

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new stud... (more…)