GPT-3, a new text generating program from OpenAI, shows how far the field has come—and how far it has to go. (more…)

The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man says to investigate a pedophile ri... (more…)

Coupled with audio and vital-sign data, deep-learning system could someday serve as a “social coach” for people with anxiety or Asperger’s. (more…)

In a conversation with Kevlin Henney, we started talking about the kinds of user interfaces that might work for AI-assisted programming. This is a significant problem: neither of us were aware of any significant work on user interfaces that support collab... (more…)

The U.S. Air Force tells us how it successfully flew an AI copilot on a U-2 spy plane—and kicked off the age of algorithmic warfare. (more…)