Last month, I decided to give five grants of $5,000 each to people pursuing open source AI projects (a few days later, five grants became… (more…)

Apple’s director of AI research Russ Salakhutd has announced at a conference that the company’s machine-learning researchers will be free to publish their findings. This is an apparent …

Are you alarmed and dismayed by Trump’s populism / authoritarianism? Do you prefer to live in a relatively peaceful and free liberal… (more…)

Google's AI is not just better at grasping languages like Mandarin, but can now translate between two languages it hasn't even trained on. In a research paper,...

Last month I got to attend the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI. I tried to fight it off, saying I was totally unqualified to go to any AI-related conference. But the organizers assured me that…...