Apple Inc. said it hired Samy Bengio, a respected research scientist who ended his 14-year career at Google after the company made the controversial decision to oust two women researchers who reported to him. (more…)

In the last days of autumn Russian AI Cup is steaming forward to the bright future full of intelligent robots.

In January 2020, Andrey Klimenko — a Russian military contractor who also goes by the nickname “Krasniy Doshik” (Red Ramen) — launched the Twitter account Neural Meduza. The project went on to become, in our opinion, one of the best parody media outlets t... (more…)

Thread by @nasrinmmm: I've interviewed many graduating PhD students lately who are considering industry jobs, and almost all of them said they had never thought about AI startups before talking with me,so I thought...… (more…)

A primer on automated story generation and how it it strikes at some fundamental research questions in artificial intelligence. (more…)