The bots were attempting to imitate human speech when they developed their own machine language spontaneously - at which point Facebook decided to shut them down. (more…)

Kevin Scott's interest in technology as a boy lit a spark that would take him from rural Virginia to key roles at Google and LinkedIn before joining Microsoft as its chief technology officer. Now, he wants to inspire kids who are like he was to pursue the... (more…)

An algorithm trained on real streets can create realistic-looking imaginary ones, and could one day be used to generate highly realistic video game worlds... (more…)

Artificial intelligence is still a long way off. Jack Wallen ponders the current state of mobile AI and insists it's missing a very crucial element.

Many of the most successful and widely used machine-learning models are trained with the help of thousands of low-paid gig workers. Millions of people around the world earn money on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, which allow companies and research... (more…)