The dirty little secret of automation is that people make it possible.

By Auren Hoffman. If we want to massively accelerate artificial intelligence and improve human lives, we need to democratize access to data. Past civilizations built grand libraries to organize the…...

Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why?

DoD autonomous drone swarms concept (credit: U.S. Dept. of Defense) Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday (Sept. 1, 2017) that the country that... (more…)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of those subjects I really wish I'd taken while at university. Philosophical questions about intelligence aside, much of what AI comes down to in practice is techniques for solving problems with computers, which is real... (more…)