The head of Google's cloud business says she doesn't expect machine intelligence to exceed that of humans during her lifetime, despite recent rapid progress that has surprised many. Diane Greene, who turns 61 this year, said that while researcher...

Are we approaching a day where machines can out-perform us in “human” fields like the creative arts? If you gave the proper training set to a sophisticated neural network, would it eventually be able to compose the first line of a novel? Not quite yet, as... (more…)

The RealFace deal could hint at hands-free authentication for your iPhone. (more…)

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

A math-free computer-science-free explanation for the AI explosion... (more…)