The other night, my nine-year-old daughter (who is, of course, the most tech-savvy person in the house), introduced me to a new Amazon Alexa skill. (more…)

As machine learning algorithms and techniques have advanced, more and more machine learning applications require multiple machines and must exploit parallelism. However, the infrastructure for doing machine learning on clusters remains ad-hoc. While good ... (more…)

A technology industry alliance devoted to making sure smart machines don't turn against humanity said Friday that Apple has signed on and will have a seat on the board. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind l...

The government thinks there’s more to AI, like improving public services and boosting productivity, writes Richard Wilson. Artificial intelligence (AI) may... (more…)

The end of employment will not take place. The great risk that the AI has arisen over the economy is to amplify the already strong tendency of the digital... (more…)