Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts.

He is an Engineering Fellow at Google, managing Brain Team Toronto, the Chief Scientific Adviser of the Vector Institute, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto. His name is Geoffrey Hinton, and this Bloomberg 50 profile of him takes a peek i... (more…)

 These principles were developed in conjunction with the 2017 Asilomar conference, though the process described here. Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people around the world. Its continued developm...

Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future. (more…)

The philosophy of X, where X is a science, involves philosophers analyzing the concepts of X and sometimes commenting on what concepts are or are not likely to be coherent. Artificial intelligence (AI) has closer scientific connections with philosophy tha... (more…)