As you may probably know, DeepMind has recently published a paper on AlphaZero [1], a system that learns by itself and is able to master… (more…)

Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI...

A bot automated deepfake abuse online. Researchers say their warnings have been ignored and Telegram has failed to remove it... (more…)

After a year in which both actors and writers hit the picket lines, another Hollywood strike may be on the horizon. (more…)

In spite of my near-total isolation from news media, I have noticed that references to “AI” are ubiquitous. A perusal of such material suggests that “AI” means Machine Learn… (more…)