The wisdom of the crowd The MCG runs a guessing game during AFL matches for visitors to estimate the MCG crowd size before the official number is published. Visitors tweet their estimates to #MCGCrowd, and the winner gets a prize (tweeting multiple guesse... (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…)

The brains behind Google's DeepMind and Elon Musk's OpenAI are studying the ways AIs learn. The goal: to keep machines from going rogue. (more…)

AI can certainly help scientists. But to understand why AI can’t do science on its own, we should take a look at the NP-Hard Problem in computer science. The “Hard” is in the name of the problem for a reason… ... (more…)

In 2017 hope is that reinforcement learning will now prove useful in many realworld situations and will be interesting to see how effectively it can be deployed...