With the Geometric Intelligence deal, Uber wants to make major advances in how the computers behind self-driving vehicles think and make decisions on the road.

Business leaders and researchers in AI and machine learning provide their predictions for 2020. They focus on hardware, public understanding, the human impact of AI, and its limitations. (more…)

The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it. (more…)

Don’t worry about supersmart AI eliminating all the jobs. That’s just a distraction from the problems even relatively dumb computers are causing. (more…)

This is a tale that starts off like a joke: A researcher walks into a bar… and ends with a revolutionary advancement in deep learning. Nobody’s laughing now at how Ian Goodfellow, a staff research scientist at Google, got the idea for generative adversari... (more…)