Pope Francis recently devoted his monthly prayer intention to the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence. Though the prayer was expressed primarily in terms of reducing inequality, a theme this Pope has touched on often, its final plea... (more…)

Neural machine translation now works with Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese. (more…)

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology promise to revolutionize our approach to medicine, finance, business operations, media, and more. (more…)

Last year, Google's AI AlphaGo beat Korean Lee Sedol in Go, a game many expected humans to continue to dominate for years, if not decades, to come. With the 37th move in the match’s second game, AlphaGo landed a surprise on the right-hand si... (more…)

For most of us, NPCs and electronic toy characters cannot sustain an illusion of life past our initial interaction with them. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, and inauthentic verbal and… (more…)