Alan Turing's Imitation Game has long been a benchmark for machine intelligence. But what it really measures is deception. (more…)

This paper proposes a research direction to advance AI which draws inspiration from cognitive theories of human decision making. The premise is that if we gain insights about the causes of some human capabilities that are still lacking in AI (for instance... (more…)

Many African states are deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) surveillance technologies to monitor citizens for various purposes, but seldom in ways that are rights-respecting and particularly privacy-respecting. Today’s AI surveillance technologies are ... (more…)

An artificial intelligence model can detect people who are asymptomatic with Covid-19, through cellphone-recorded coughs. The work was led by Brian Subirana and colleagues at the MIT Auto-ID Lab. (more…)

Computational statistics have been wonderful for the wine industry — but the prospect of an ‘artificial nose’ is an AI boogeyman... (more…)